• In Sight of Monadnock
• Across a Continent
• The Edge of the East
• Our Overseas Men
• Some Earthquakes
• Half-a-Dozen Pictures
• “Captains Courageous”
• On One Side Only
• Leaves from a Winter Note-Book

These letters appeared in newspapers during the spring of 1908, after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. They are now reprinted without alteration.

• The Road to Quebec
• A People at Home
• Cities and Spaces
• Newspapers and Democracy
• Labour
• The Fortunate Towns
• Mountains and the Pacific
• A Conclusion

And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments.—EXODUS vii. 22.

• Sea Travel
• A Return to the East
• A Serpent of Old Nile
• Up the River
• Dead Kings
• The Face of the Desert
• The Riddle of Empire