Books by
HUGH WALPOLE
Novels
THE WOODEN HORSE
MR. PERRIN AND MR. TRAILL
THE DARK FOREST
THE SECRET CITY
THE CATHEDRAL
The London Novels
FORTITUDE
THE DUCHESS OF WREXE
THE GREEN MIRROR
THE CAPTIVES
THE YOUNG ENCHANTED
Fantasies
MARADICK AT FORTY
THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE
PORTRAIT OF MAN WITH RED HAIR (In Preparation)
Books About Children
THE GOLDEN SCARE CROW
JEREMY
JEREMY AND HAMLET
Belles-Lettres
JOSEPH CONRAD: A CRITICAL STUDY
Jeremy and Hamlet
A Chronicle of
Certain Incidents
In the Lives
Of a Boy,
A Dog, and a
Country Town
By
HUGH WALPOLE
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First published 1923
Printed in Great Britain.
To
MY FATHER AND MOTHER
FROM
THEIR DEVOTED FRIEND
THEIR SON
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear;
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May
Although it fall and die that night——
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
—Ben Jonson.
CONTENTS
Jeremy and Hamlet