From the Easy Chair, Volume 1FROM THE EASY CHAIRReading editionChapter navigation30 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterFROM THE EASY CHAIRGEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEDWARD EVERETT IN 1862.AT THE OPERA IN 1864.EMERSON LECTURING.SHOPS AND SHOPPING.MRS. GRUNDY AND THE COSMOPOLITAN.DICKENS READING. [1867.]PHILLIS.THOREAU AND MY LADY CAVALIERE.HONESTUS AT THE CAUCUS.THALBERG AND OTHER PIANISTS, 1871.URBS AND RUS.RIP VAN WINKLE.A CHINESE CRITIC.HOLIDAY SAUNTERING.WENDELL PHILLIPS AT HARVARD. 1881.EASTER BONNETS.JENNY LIND.THE TOWN.SARAH SHAW RUSSELL.STREET MUSIC.A LITTLE DINNER WITH THACKERAY.CECILIA PLAYING.THE MANNERLESS SEX.ROBERT BROWNING IN FLORENCE.PLAYERS.UNMUSICAL BOXES.THE DINNER IN ARCADIA.Previous chapter ←Front matterNext chapter →GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAll chapters and sections (30)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsFROM THE EASY CHAIRGEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEDWARD EVERETT IN 1862.AT THE OPERA IN 1864.EMERSON LECTURING.SHOPS AND SHOPPING.MRS. GRUNDY AND THE COSMOPOLITAN.DICKENS READING. [1867.]PHILLIS.THOREAU AND MY LADY CAVALIERE.HONESTUS AT THE CAUCUS.THALBERG AND OTHER PIANISTS, 1871.URBS AND RUS.RIP VAN WINKLE.A CHINESE CRITIC.HOLIDAY SAUNTERING.WENDELL PHILLIPS AT HARVARD. 1881.EASTER BONNETS.JENNY LIND.THE TOWN.SARAH SHAW RUSSELL.STREET MUSIC.A LITTLE DINNER WITH THACKERAY.CECILIA PLAYING.THE MANNERLESS SEX.ROBERT BROWNING IN FLORENCE.PLAYERS.UNMUSICAL BOXES.THE DINNER IN ARCADIA.BY← Front matterGEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS →