ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. MACFARLANE

LONDON
WARD LOCK & CO. LIMITED
1908

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TO
H. R. C.

“They that have heard the overword

Know life’s a dream worth dreaming.”

Henley.

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CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I	Somewhat Contagious	[9]
II	Treating of Larkin and his Commission	[23]
III	Miss Bibby	[31]
IV	The Famous Novelist	[43]
V	Ante-prandial Visitors	[55]
VI	A Grocery Order	[60]
VII	Letters to a Mother	[72]
VIII	Across the Rubicon	[87]
IX	The Interview for the “Evening Mail”	[96]
X	Anna enjoys Ill-health	[112]
XI	Miss Bibby’s Holiday	[126]
XII	In Black and White	[135]
XIII	An Interview with the Interviewer	[144]
XIV	The Literary Microbe	[156]
XV	“Out of the Mouths of Babes”	[170]
[p8] XVI	Wooing the Muse	[179]
XVII	Literature is Low	[190]
XVIII	An Editing Pencil	[197]
XIX	Max Runs Amuck	[205]
XX	A Lesson in Discipline	[216]
XXI	In Print at last	[227]
XXII	A Master Mind	[229]
XXIII	The Picnic at the Falls	[243]
XXIV	At the Second Fall	[259]