Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Edward Simmons: in 1893

| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| Interruption | ix | |
| Introduction.—A Yankee Heritage | xiii | |
| I. | Making My Early History.—Concord, Massachusetts | 1 |
| II. | Finding My Wings.—Harvard College | 24 |
| III. | In Search of a Career.—Out West | 43 |
| IV. | On Being a Tenderfoot.—North of California | 76 |
| V. | Adventures in Æstheticism.—Paris and Student Days | 117 |