Finley Peter Dunne has given his reader a delightful collection of sketches. The Table of Contents includes the following. Expansion, A Hero Who Worked Overtime, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Charles Beresford, Hanging Aldermen, The Grip, Lexow, Their Excellences the Police, Shaughnessy, Times Past, The Skirts of Chance, When the Trust is at Work, A Brand from the Burning, A Winter Night, The Blue and the Gray, The Tragedy of the Agitator, Boyne Water and Bad Blood, The Freedom Picnic, The Idle Apprentice, The O¿Briens Forever, A Candidate¿s Pillory, The Day After the Victory, A Visit to Jekyl Island, Slavin Contra Wagner, Grand Opera, The Church Fair, The Wanderers, Making a Cabinet, Old Age, The Divided Skirt, A Bit of History, The Ruling Class, The Optimist, Prosperity, The Great Hot Spell, Keeping Lent, The Quick and the Dead, The Soft Spot, The Irishman Abroud, The Serenade, The Hay Fleet, The Performance of Lieutenant Hobson, The Decline of National Feeling, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Union of Two Great Fortunes, and The Dreyfus Case.