A Salem and New York boyhood -- The free academy and the city college -- Journalism, 1868-1875 -- The Publishers' weekly, 1872-1800 -- The Library Journal and the A.L.A., 1876-1880 -- A Yankee Puritan and his friends -- Joining the liberal crusade -- Fathering the mugwumps in 1879 -- Leading the Independents in 1880 -- The House of Harper in London, 1880-1882 -- Literary ambassador at the court of Fleet Street -- The Publishers' weekly and the library movement, 1882-1900 -- The mugwump crusade, 1880-1891 -- Edison executive, 1890-1899 -- Managing a corporation in "rather an ideal way" -- A mugwump in the nineties -- Promoting New York's civic renaissance -- The arts of life -- Two last campaigns against Tammany -- Finis Coronat Opus