| Since I Have Lived in the City of Bern | 3 | (3) | |
| The Preliminary Question | 6 | (3) | |
| The Foundation-Shattering Question | 9 | (1) | |
| Personal Problems Involved in Answering the Question | 10 | (2) | |
| Now I Philosophize a Little | 12 | (2) | |
| Why I Did Not Go to Paris | 14 | (5) | |
| The More Serious Part | 19 | (6) | |
| A Chapter Which Is Intended to Convey to the Reader the Writer's Fair-Mindedness |
25 | (6) | |
| Why I Left Amsterdam | 31 | (14) | |
| Why I Left Germany | 45 | (10) | |
| What I Thought As I Walked | 55 | (13) | |
| Bern | 68 | (11) | |
| Looking for a Room | 79 | (6) | |
| Still Looking for a Room and Why | 85 | (5) | |
| Everybody, Men, Women, Children, Dogs, Cats, and Other Animals, Wild and Domestic, Looked at Me-ALL the Time! | 90 | (1) | |
| Continuation of the Little Dialogue Interrupted by the Previous Chapter |
91 | (4) | |
| Some General Changes in My Attitude As a Result of My Preliminary Experiences with the Bernese People | 95 | (4) | |
| What Happened at the Thunstrasse | 99 | (2) | |
| The Kirchenfeld | 101 | (4) | |
| I Leave the Thunstrasse | 105 | (2) | |
| My New Landlord and Lady | 107 | (9) | |
| The Public Life | 116 | (7) | |
| And This Theme Has Another Disquieting Variation | 123 | (6) | |
| Hearts and Stones: Introduction | 129 | (8) | |
| Hearts and Stones Continued, or: A Barroom Ballad | 137 | (10) | |
| The Radio | 147 | (5) | |
| Through Which "Pressing" I Encountered Ideas Which Were Shocking to My Delicate Sensibility! | 152 | (5) | |
| And What Did They Have to Say to That? | 157 | (10) | |
| What Happened in the Weeks That Followed | 167 | (3) | |
| Paris the Second Time | 170 | (7) | |
| Why I Was Depressed and Sunk in Misery | 177 | (7) | |
| The Momentous Decision | 184 | (2) | |
| How I Left the Kirchenfeld | 186 | (3) | |
| The New Room | 189 | (3) | |
| Why I Did Not Work | 192 | (6) | |
| A Portrait of Irony As a Part-Time Job | 198 | (4) | |
| The Rendezvous | 202 | (13) | |
| The Girls Who Work in the Tearooms | 215 | (2) | |
| Why the Gentlemen Are Appreciative | 217 | (1) | |
| Why the Pretty Boys and Girls Did Not Marry | 218 | (8) | |
| "But Why Do Not More of the Men and Women Who Marry Under Such Unhappy Circumstances Learn to Love Each Other and Make an Adjustment-Together?" | 226 | (4) | |
| "This Explanation of Yours Cannot Apply to All the Bernesel" | 230 | (3) | |
| Now I Hear You Telling Me | 233 | (3) | |
| An Essay on Human Understanding | 236 | (2) | |
| What the Day Brings | 238 | (4) | |
| Topography | 242 | (4) | |
| Flora and Fauna | 246 | (2) | |
| The City | 248 | (5) | |
| The Tendency to Overdress, For Example | 253 | (6) | |
| The Swiss "Movement" | 259 | (2) | |
| The Most Important Words in the Swiss Vocabulary | 261 | (5) | |
| However, I Can't Repeat This Too Many Times | 266 | (1) | |
| Switzerland Is Neutral | 267 | (1) | |
| A Little Sham History of Switzerland, Which Is Very Much to the Point, and Which the Incredulous or the Pedantic May Verify by Reading a Formal History of Switzerland, Which I Have Certainly Never Done, and Will Probably Never Do | 268 | (3) | |
| An Interesting Effect Which This State of Consciousness Has Upon Women | 271 | (3) | |
| An Interesting Effect Which This State of Consciousness Has Upon the Concept of Charity | 274 | (6) | |
| The Way I Used to Give Willis James My Candy When I Was a Little Boy | 280 | (8) | |
| An Interesting Effect Which This State of Consciousness Has Upon Art | 288 | (5) | |
| That Most of the Swiss Artists Who Become Famous Leave Switzerland in Order to Do So | 293 | (4) | |
| But Why Am I Being So Passionate About It | 297 | (2) | |
| At Whose Performance a Peculiar Thing Happened | 299 | (2) | |
| A Ten-Line Cadenza | 301 | (3) | |
| "Abend Dammerung" | 304 | (6) | |
| I Took Another Look at the City | 310 | (1) | |
| Why Sorrow Upon Looking Upon the Town from Schos-shalde Hill? | 311 | (7) | |
| And After the "Negative" Event, a "Positive" Event | 318 | (2) | |
| And Shortly After That, a "Posi-Negative" Event | 320 | (3) | |
| And Then the Golden Irony Tugged Once More at My Sleeve | 323 | (2) | |
| I Took the Tram to Wabem | 325 | (5) | |
| A Parable | 330 | (1) | |
| Another Parable | 331 | (1) | |
| And Then, a "Parti-Valenced" Experience | 332 | (8) | |
| Before My Eyes the Town Was Constantly Changing into Something Else! | 340 | (3) | |
| The Scheme | 343 | (2) | |
| And I Gave My Thoughts to a Few More Mundane Alternatives | 345 | (2) | |
| I Had Thought of Suggesting | 347 | (1) | |
| A Message to General Guisan | 348 | (4) | |
| It Is As Simple As One, Two, Three | 352 |
