Miller, C. W., editor in chief of _New York Times_, 291 Mitchell, Fire-Marshal, examines author, 286 prosecutes Brodie, 282 Moody and Sankey visit England, 23 _Morning Post_, an article on the genus “ghost story” in: its writer, 224 Morphine, and its effects, 172 _et seq._, 178, 179 Morris (a reputed “stiff” and cut-throat), 248 an instance of his kindness, 249 Mosquitoes of Rainy Lake City, 247 Muldoon, Mr., and author’s report of a students’ concert, 292 City editor of _New York Times_, 285, 291 joins staff of _Brooklyn Eagle_, 300 Mullins, editorial writer on _Evening Sun_, 284 Muskoka Lakes of Northern Ontario, 73, 74 Mystical minor poet, a, 55 _et seq._ Nash, Eveleigh, publishes stories by author, 224 Nature, spell of, and its influence on author, 32, 35, 49 _et seq._, 169, 218, 233, 236, 238, 240 New York, a lively anti-semitic meeting at, 229 horrors of, 108, 109 miseries of summer heat in, 231 _New York Times_, author on staff of, 288 slogan of, 91, 291 Newspaper reporting, reminiscences of, 225 _et seq._ “Night Song,” poem by A. H. Louis, 264, 265, 271 Novelists, instances of their creative power, 77 Olive-oil, its value as food, 262 Opium, the Invocation to, 168, 169, 180 Otto, waiter in Krisch’s, 260 Palmer, Lynwood, and Boyde, 159, 206, 208 attends trial of Boyde, 203 kindness to author, 158 Patanjali, “Aphorisms” of, 28 _et seq._, 255 Pawnbroking, experiences of, 88 _et seq._, 110, 120, 252 Paxton, 233, 236 _et seq._, 246, 249 Pember, G. H., evangelical writer of prophetic school, 30, 31 Police, New York, the Tammany system and, 107, 183 Potter, Bishop, officiates at wedding of James Speyer, 304 Prison as “a proper vestibule to a city of Damned Souls,” 109 Rainy Lake City, arrival at, 246 desolateness of, 248 Rainy River district, gold discovered in, 232 Reporter, a drunken, 108 Reporting for New York papers, experiences acquired from, 92 Revivalist movement, author and, 23 Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, 301 Roper, and Boyde, 197, 198, 199 Ryan, a Tammany magistrate, 201 Schmidt, “Von,” personality of, 276 warns author against Brodie, 275, 277 _et seq._ Scott, Mr., revivalist, 28 _Scribner’s Magazine_, “A Vagrant’s Epitaph” in, 290 Selton, Morton, and his understudy, 86 Sevenoaks, a reminiscence of schooldays at, 253 Shakespearean rehearsals on Lake Rosseau, 75, 77 Smedley, Mr., posing for, 112, 158 Smith, Goldwin, and his private secretary, 37 Smith, Stanley, 23 Smythe, Judge, replaced by John Goff as Recorder, 232 sentences Boyde, 203 “Snipe” hunting, definition of, 214, 215 Social reporting, experiences of, 225 Sothern advances money to Boyde, 206 Spanish-American War, the, 301 _Spectator_ reviews author’s published stories, 224 Spencer, Herbert, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269