The Gift of Story-Telling (1895) (Harper's New Monthly Magazine Oct 1895) His Father's Son (1895), a novel Bookbindings Old and New: Notes of a book-lover, with an account of the Grolier Club of New York (1895) Aspects of Fiction (1896; revised in 1902) An Introduction to the Study of American Literature (1896) Tales of Fantasy and Fact (1896) Studies in Local Color (1898) A Confident To-Morrow (1900) The Action and the Word (1900) The Historical Novel and Other Essays (1901) Parts of Speech, Essays on English (1901) The Philosophy of the Short-Story (1901) The Development of the Drama (1903) American Character (1906) The Short Story (1907) Americans of the Future and Other Essays (1909) Molière: His Life and Works (1910) Introduction to the Study of American literature (1911) Fugitives from Justice (1912) Poetry. Vistas of New York (1912) Shakespeare as a Playwright (1913) On Acting (1914) The Oxford Book of American Essays (1914) A Book About the Theater (1916) These Many Years (1917): autobiography Principles of Playmaking (1919) Playwrights on Playmaking (1923) Personal life Matthews married Ada Harland, an actress who had given up her career when they married. They had a daughter. During the 1890s he was a charter member of an informal group known as "the Friendly Sons of Saint Bacchus", which met in a bohemian cafe in Greenwich Village for entertainment and readings. Other members of the group included the erudite and cosmopolitan critic James Gibbons Huneker and the rowdy Ashcan school painter George Luks, two New Yorkers notorious for their alcohol drinking, whose presence would suggest that the "sons" were not devoted to purely intellectual pastimes. Matthews was a member of the long-running Gin Mill Club, a more exclusive informal organization whose members included Columbia University's president, Nicholas Murray Butler, and numerous public officials equally devoted to fraternal evenings of conversation, good wine, and good food. He was friends with many notable men, including. Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Theodore Roosevelt. His relationship with Twain had a bantering quality; in his famous essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," Twain lambasted Matthews' statements concerning Cooper's literary merits). Matthews' correspondence with Roosevelt, which extended from the 1880s through the White House years, was published posthumously. They shared a temperamental affinity as well as an interest in the cause of simplified spelling. In 1929, he died in New York City five years