Volume I. The author's account of himself -- The voyage -- Roscoe -- The wife -- Rip Van Winkle -- English writers on America -- Rural life in England -- The broken heart -- The art of book making -- A royal poet -- The country church -- The widow and her son -- The Boar's Head Tavern -- The mutability of literature -- Rural funerals -- The inn kitchen -- The spectre bridegroom -- Westminster Abbey volume II. Christmas -- The stage coach -- Christmas Eve -- Christmas Day -- The Christmas dinner -- Little Britain -- Stratford-on-Avon -- Traits of Indian character -- Philip of Pokanoket -- John Bull -- The pride of the village -- The angler -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- L'Envoy