The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

1886

Fourteen comic essays on being idle, being in love, being hard up, cats and dogs, babies, the weather and furnished apartments. Jerome dedicates the book to his pipe and admits in the preface that its chief merit is its complete absence of usefulness.

Dedication
Preface
On Being Idle.
On Being in Love.
On Being in the Blues.
On Being Hard Up.
On Vanity and Vanities.
On Getting on in the World.
On the Weather.
On Cats and Dogs.
On Being Shy.
On Babies.
On Eating and Drinking.
On Furnished Apartments.
On Dress and Deportment.
On Memory.