CONTENTS

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Unparliamentary Papers:—
The Universal Conflict[3]
An Eminent Georgian[12]
My First Derby[20]
On Eternal Life[28]
The Next War—and Military Service[31]
First Plays for Beginners[39]
Hats[45]
Shareholders’ Blood[52]
The Personal Column[60]
Society Sideshows[64]
Latter-Day Dramas:—
Morality[75]
Eternity and Post-Eternity[87]
The Enchanted Island[101]
President Wilson[112]
Jemima Bloggs[125]
Under Eastern Skies[132]
The Vodka Bottle[144]
King David I[153]
The Slayboy of the Western World[158]
Impolitics:—
A Member of Parliament[167]
Woes of the Whips[174]
Young Men and “Maidens”[180]
Front Benches and Back Benches[188]
“Order, Order”[196]
Lords and Commons[203]
Irreverent Interviews and Other Irrelevances:—
With Lord Balfour at the Washington Conference[211]
With Monsieur Briand after the Washington Conference[219]
With Mr. Lloyd George during his Premiership[227]
With Lord Birkenhead on the Woolsack[235]
Old Tory[243]
Edward and Eustace[244]
The Two Wedgwoods[249]
Songs of a Die-Hard[253]
Nursery Rhyme[254]
The Old Member[255]