I. Germany -- Of dogs and men -- Millionaire for an hour -- The umbrella -- The emigrants' ship -- The currency-reformed city -- Baltic tour -- Melancholy of a tram car in the Ruhr -- Smoke joins up the towns -- Germany in winter -- Retrospect of Magdeburg -- II. Sketches : The fraternity member -- Guillaume the Blond Negro -- Adventurers -- The mother -- Rose Gentschow -- Two Gypsy girls -- Grock -- The dapper traveller -- III. Austria and elsewhere : Bruck and Kiralyhida -- Journey through Galicia : people and place -- The Polish California -- Hotel Kopriva -- The all-powerful police -- Where the world war began -- The opened tomb -- His K. and K. Apostolic Majesty -- IV. USSR : The czarist emigres -- The border at Niegoreloye -- Down the Volga to Astrakhan -- Saint Petroleum -- V. Albania : A meeting with President Ahmed Zogu -- Arrival in Albania -- Tirana, the capital city -- The Albanian Army -- Western visitors in Barbaria -- Article about Albania (written on a hot day) -- VI. Hotels : Arrival in the hotel -- The chief receptionist -- The old waiter -- The cook in his kitchen -- "Madame Annette" -- The patron -- Leaving the hotel -- The hotel -- VII. Pleasures and pains : Spring -- people in glass cages -- People on Sunday -- The office -- The destruction of the café -- Music in the Volksgarten -- The strange city -- Travel -- The "Romance" of travel -- The lady in the compartment -- Morning at the junction -- VIII. Ending : The old poet dies -- The Third Reich, a dependency of hell on Earth -- Far from the native turf -- Grillparzer : a portrait -- The bitter bread -- Furlough in Jablonovka.