CONTENTS
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The Perfect Guest [13]
The Sparrows' Friend [17]
The Golden Eagle [20]
A Morning Call [26]
The True Wizard of the North [30]
Innocence and Impulse [42]
Possessions [45]
Drake and His Game [49]
Admirals All—To be [56]
A Study in Symmetry [61]
Davy Jones [66]
The Man of Ross [71]
The Innocent's Progress [85]
Thoughts at the Ferry [92]
A Little Child [97]
A Devonshire Inn [103]
On Shops and Stalls [107]
Third Thoughts [113]
The Italian Question [118]
On Disguise [122]
Broken English [126]
Enthusiasts [136]
Telephonics [141]
The World Remedial [147]
What the Sun Did Not See [152]
Two of Martha's Sons [158]
Freaks of Memory [164]
The Moral Dressing-Table [169]
Thackeray's School Fellow [173]
In re Physiognomy
I Identification [184]
II Dr. Sullivan [187]
The World's Desire [191]
A Conqueror [197]
The Newness of the Old [202]
Aunts [206]
On Recitations [210]
Clicquot Well Won [218]
The Sufferer [223]
A South Sea Bubble [227]
On Finding Things [231]
Punctuality [236]
The Other Two [240]
On Secret Passages [244]
Little Miss Banks [248]
Gentlemen Both [251]
On Epitaphs [255]
IN AND ABOUT LONDON
I A London Thrill [263]
II A Door Plate [268]
III Angel Advocacy [273]
IV The Soane Hogarths [277]
V Greenwich Hospital [281]
VI Kew in April [285]
VII Royal Windsor [288]
VIII Three Little Backwaters [292]
IX A Self-Made Statue [297]
X Crowds and a Bad Samaritan [302]
XI Before and After [306]
XII The Green Among the Grey [311]
XIII The Fatherly Force [318]
XIV My Friend Flora [325]