pt. 1. Communities and the "under side" of America. 1. Levee life : haunts and pastimes of the roustabouts
2. Saint Malo : a lacrustine village in Louisiana
3. Sicilians in New Orleans
4. The last of the New Orleans fencing-masters
5. A gypsy camp
6. Some pictures of poverty : impressions of a round with an overseer of the poor
7. Pariah people : outcast life by night in the East End
8. Les chiffonniers : how they live, work and have their being
9. Within the bars : how prisoners look, live, and conduct themselves
10. Cincinnati salamanders : a confederation of twenty little communities
11. Steeple climbers
pt. 2. "Enormous and lurid facts" : language, folklife, and culture. 12. Cheek
13. The Creole patois
14. The Creole doctor
15. The last of the voudoos
16. New Orleans superstitions
17. The music of the masses
18. Black varieties : the minstrels of the row
19. Among the spirits : an Enquirer reporter communicates with his father
20. Some strange experience : the reminiscences of a ghost-seer
21. Haceldama : Hebrew slaughterers, gentile butchers, and consumptive blood-drinkers
22. The manufacture of yellow and Rockingham ware in Cincinnati
pt. 3. Opinions of America. 23. Growth of population in America
24. The Labour problem in America
25. The race-problem in America
26. Some Japanese ideas of American policy
27. Prevention of cruelty to women
28. Recent American novels
29. American magazines
30. American art tastes
31. The French in Louisiana
32. The roar of a great city.