1917 - Trivia - 3 - Logan Pearsall Smith

1917

CONTENTS

[ Bibliographical Note ]

[ The Author ]

[ Happiness ]

[ The Afternoon Post ]

[ The Busy Bees ]

[ The Wheat ]

[ The Coming of Fate ]

[ My Speech ]

[ Stonehenge ]

[ The Stars ]

[ Silvia Doria ]

[ Bligh House ]

[ In Church ]

[ The Sound of a Voice ]

[ What Happens ]

[ A Precaution ]

[ The Great Work ]

[ My Mission ]

[ The Birds ]

[ High Life ]

[ Empty Shells ]

[ Dissatisfaction ]

[ In the Pulpit ]

[ Human Ends ]

[ Lord Arden ]

[ The Starry Heaven ]

[ Companions ]

[ Edification ]

[ The Vicar of Lynch ]

[ Tu Quoque Fontium ]

[ The Spider ]

[ BOOK II ]

[ L'oiseau Bleu ]

[ At The Bank ]

[ I See the World ]

[ Social Success ]

[ Apotheosis ]

[ The Spring in London ]

[ Fashion Plates ]

[ Mental Vice ]

[ The Organ of Life ]

[ Humiliation ]

[ Green Ivory ]

[ In The Park ]

[ The Correct ]

[ "Where Do I Come In?" ]

[ The Quest ]

[ The Kaleidoscope ]

[ Oxford Street ]

[ The Power of Words ]

[ Self-Analysis ]

[ The Voice of the World ]

[ And Anyhow ]

[ Drawbacks ]

[ The Church of England ]

[ Misgiving ]

[ Sanctuaries ]

[ The Incredible ]

[ Inconstancy ]

[ The Poplar ]

[ On the Doorstep ]

[ Old Clothes ]

[ Consolation ]

[ Sir Eustace Carr ]

[ The Lord Mayor ]

[ The Burden ]

[ Under An Umbrella ]

Bibliographical Note

Some of these pieces were privately printed at the Chiswick Press in 1902. Others have appeared in the "New Statesman" and "The New Republic," and are here reprinted with the Editors' permission.

Preface

"You must beware of thinking too much about Style," said my kindly adviser, "or you will become like those fastidious people who polish and polish until there is nothing left."

"Then there really are such people?" I asked, lost in the thought of how much I should like to meet them. But the well-informed lady could give me no precise information about them.

I often hear of them in this tantalizing manner, and perhaps one day I shall get to know them. They sound delightful.

The Author

These pieces of moral prose have been written, dear Reader, by a large Carnivorous Mammal, belonging to that suborder of the Animal Kingdom which includes also the Orang-outang, the tusked Gorilla, the Baboon with his bright blue and scarlet bottom, and the long-eared Chimpanzee.