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Contents
- Front Matter
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
- Chapter I: A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the MississippiHerman Melville
- Chapter II: Showing that Many Men Have Many MindsHerman Melville
- Chapter III: In which a Variety of Characters AppearHerman Melville
- Chapter IV: Renewal of Old AcquaintanceHerman Melville
- Chapter V: The Man with the Weed Makes It an Even Question Whether He be a Great Sage or a Great SimpletonHerman Melville
- Chapter VI: At the Outset of which Certain Passengers Prove Deaf to the Call of CharityHerman Melville
- Chapter VII: A Gentleman with Gold Sleeve-ButtonsHerman Melville
- Chapter VIII: A Charitable LadyHerman Melville
- Chapter IX: Two Business Men Transact a Little BusinessHerman Melville
- Chapter X: In The CabinHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XI: Only a Page or SoHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XII: Story of the Unfortunate Man, From which may be Gathered Whether or No He has been Justly So EntitledHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XIII: The Man with the Travelling-Cap Evinces Much Humanity, And in a Way Which Would Seem to Show Him to be One of the Most Logical of OptimistsHerman Melville
- Chapter XIV: Worth the Consideration of Those to Whom it may Prove Worth ConsideringHerman Melville
- Chapter XV: An Old Miser, Upon Suitable Representations, is Prevailed Upon to Venture an InvestmentHerman Melville
- Chapter XVI: A Sick Man, After Some Impatience, is Induced to Become a PatientHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XVII: Toward the End of Which the Herb-Doctor Proves Himself a Forgiver of InjuriesHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XVIII: Inquest into the True Character of the Herb-DoctorHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XIX: A Soldier of FortuneHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XX: Reappearance of One Who May be RemembererHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXI: A Had CaseHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXII: In The Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations
Herman Melville - 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 FitHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXII: A Philanthropist Undertakes to Convert A Misanthrope, But Does Not Get Beyond Confuting HimHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXV: The Cosmopolitan Makes an AcquaintanceHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXII: Containing The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, According to the Views of One Evidently Not So Prepossessed As Rousseau
In Favour of SavagesHerman Melville - CHAPTER XXII: 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 HaterHerman Melville - CHAPTER XXVIII: Moot Points Touching the Late Colonel John MoredockHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXIX: The Boon CompanionsHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXX: Opening With a Poetical Eulogy of the Press And Continuing With Talk Inspired by the SameHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXI: A Metamorphosis More Surprising than Any in Ovid
Herman Melville - CHAPTER XXXII: Showing that the Age of Magic and Magicians is Not Yet OverHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXIII: Which May Pass for Whatever It May Prove to be WorthHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXIV: In Which the Cosmopolitan Tells the Story of the Gentleman-MadmanHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXV: In Which the Cosmopolitan Strikingly Evinces the Artlessness of his NatureHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXVI: In Which the Cosmopolitan is Accosted by a Mystic, Whereupon Ensues Pretty Much Such Talk as Might be ExpectedHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXVII: The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical DiscipleHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXVIII: The Disciple Unbends, And Consents to Act a Social PartHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XXXIX: The Hypothetical FriendsHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XL: In Which the Story of China Aster is at Secondhand Told by One Who, While Not Disapproving the Moral, Disclaims the Spirit of the StyleHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XLI: Ending With a Rupture of the HypothesisHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XLII: Upon The Heel of the Last Scene The Cosmopolitan Enters The Barber’s Shop, a Benediction on his LipsHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XLIII: Very CharmingHerman Melville
- 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 ItHerman Melville
- CHAPTER XLV: The Cosmopolitan Increases in SeriousnessHerman Melville
- End Matter
