The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

by Herman Melville

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Contents

1. Chapter I. A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi
2. Chapter II. Showing That Many Men Have Many Minds
3. Chapter III. In Which a Variety of Characters Appear
4. Chapter IV. Renewal of Old Acquaintance
5. Chapter V. The Man with the Weed Makes It an Even Question Whether He Be a Great Sage or a Great Simpleton
6. Chapter VI. At the Outset of Which Certain Passengers Prove Deaf to the Call of Charity
7. Chapter VII. A Gentleman with Gold Sleeve-Buttons
8. Chapter VIII. A Charitable Lady
9. Chapter IX. Two Business Men Transact a Little Business
10. Chapter X. In the Cabin
11. Chapter XI. Only a Page or So
12. Chapter XII. Story of the Unfortunate Man, from Which May Be Gathered Whether or No He Has Been Justly So Entitled
13. Chapter XIII. The Man with the Traveling-Cap Evinces Much Humanity, and in a Way Which Would Seem to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists
14. Chapter XIV. Worth the Consideration of Those to Whom It May Prove Worth Considering
15. Chapter XV. An Old Miser, Upon Suitable Representations, Is Prevailed Upon to Venture an Investment
16. Chapter XVI. A Sick Man, After Some Impatience, Is Induced to Become a Patient
17. Chapter XVII. Towards the End of Which the Herb-Doctor Proves Himself a Forgiver of Injuries
18. Chapter XVIII. Inquest Into the True Character of the Herb-Doctor
19. Chapter XIX. A Soldier of Fortune
20. Chapter XX. Reappearance of One Who May Be Remembered
21. Chapter XXI. A Hard Case
22. Chapter XXII. In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations
23. Chapter XXIII. In Which the Powerful Effect of Natural Scenery Is Evinced in the Case of the Missourian, Who, in View of the Region Round-About Cairo, Has a Return of His Chilly Fit
24. Chapter XXIV. A Philanthropist Undertakes to Convert a Misanthrope, but Does Not Get Beyond Confuting Him
25. Chapter XXV. The Cosmopolitan Makes an Acquaintance
26. Chapter XXVI. Containing the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, According to the Views of One Evidently Not So Prepossessed as Rousseau in Favor of Savages
27. Chapter XXVII. Some Account of a Man of Questionable Morality, but Who, Nevertheless, Would Seem Entitled to the Esteem of That Eminent English Moralist Who Said He Liked a Good Hater
28. Chapter XXVIII. Moot Points Touching the Late Colonel John Moredock
29. Chapter XXIX. The Boon Companions
30. Chapter XXX. Opening with a Poetical Eulogy of the Press and Continuing with Talk Inspired by the Same
31. Chapter XXXI. A Metamorphosis More Surprising Than Any in Ovid
32. Chapter XXXII. Showing That the Age of Magic and Magicians Is Not Yet Over
33. Chapter XXXIII. Which May Pass for Whatever It May Prove to Be Worth
34. Chapter XXXIV. In Which the Cosmopolitan Tells the Story of the Gentleman Madman
35. Chapter XXXV. In Which the Cosmopolitan Strikingly Evinces the Artlessness of His Nature
36. Chapter XXXVI. In Which the Cosmopolitan Is Accosted by a Mystic, Whereupon Ensues Pretty Much Such Talk as Might Be Expected
37. Chapter XXXVII. The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical Disciple
38. Chapter XXXVIII. The Disciple Unbends, and Consents to Act a Social Part
39. Chapter XXXIX. The Hypothetical Friends
40. Chapter XL. In Which the Story of China Aster Is at Second-Hand Told by One Who, While Not Disapproving the Moral, Disclaims the Spirit of the Style
41. Chapter XLI. Ending with a Rupture of the Hypothesis
42. Chapter XLII. Upon the Heel of the Last Scene the Cosmopolitan Enters the Barber’s Shop, a Benediction on His Lips
43. Chapter XLIII. Very Charming
44. Chapter XLIV. In Which the Last Three Words of the Last Chapter Are Made the Text of Discourse, Which Will Be Sure of Receiving More or Less Attention from Those Readers Who Do Not Skip It
45. Chapter XLV. The Cosmopolitan Increases in Seriousness

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