"Parts of several chapters have already been printed in the Atlantic monthly."--Preface.

pt. 1.Work: -- Work, play, and drudgery -- The call of the job as a doctor hears it -- The joy of work -- The points of a good job -- The reproach of commercialism: thought and action in work -- The glory of raw material -- The radiations of work -- Work and loyalty: the idealization of work -- The rewards of work -- pt. 2. -- Play: -- Playfulness, seriousness, and dullness -- Play, recreation, and the other arts -- The popular arts, the minor arts, and their big brothers -- Jewels -- Give-and-take in the minor arts and elsewhere -- Trance in play -- Chaotic plays, disjointed plays, and others -- The game, or art, of impersonation in work, play, and love -- The penetrations of work by play and the minor arts -- By-products of play: consecration of play -- pt. 3. Love: -- The allies of love -- Love's house of many mansions -- Our awareness of infinite love -- Symbolism in love -- Loyalty in love -- Impersonality in love -- Integrity in love -- Reticence, modesty, chastity -- Imperfect mutuality in love: romance -- Marriage -- pt. 4. Worship: -- Spiritual fatigue: mountain-top views -- Recollection: disenthrallment: solitude and sincerity: the reënforcement of association -- Confession: petition: praise -- Communion: the answer to prayer: summary -- All together.