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Title: The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2

Author: Various

Editor: Alfred Henry Lewis

Release Date: September 11, 2005 [EBook #16680]

Language: English

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=The
Onlooker=

Alfred Henry Lewis
Editor

Vol. I
NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1902
Part 2

[Illustration]

"Sir Oliver, we live in a dammed wicked world, and the fewer
we praise the better."

--Sir Peter Teazle.

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=The Onlooker=

The Onlooker

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CONTENTS

THE CASUAL CLUB

Tammany and Its Missing Funds--Mr.
Nixon and his Failure--Mr. Carroll's
Troubles with Mr. Croker--The Latter
Gone for Good

POETRY

AS YOU LIKE IT Fielders

Who Loves a Lord?--Killing for
Futurity--Mistake in Vocation--Foreign
Devils Again--Heaven or Hell--Adam
a Myth--Hurrah for Noah--Callow
Judgment--Champagne and "Champagne"

THE PLAY Jaques

LADY BETTY'S COMMENT Betty Stair

DRIFT OF THE DAY Skirving

THAT SMUGGLED SILK By the Old Lobbyist

Copyrighted by The Observer Publishing Co., 1902

The Observer Publishing Company
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=The Onlooker=

Vol. I MAY 28, 1902 Part 2

=The Casual Club=

On last Thursday evening the Casual Club was gathered about a corner
table in Sherry's. The great room was beautiful, the music brilliant,
the setting and table appointments magnificent, and the dinner all
that might be asked. There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of
our members--the service was slip-shod, inattentive, vile. One wonders
that so splendid an arrangement should be left unguarded in the most
important particular of service; that Sherry, when he has done so
much, should permit himself to be foiled of a last result by an idle
c