Most of the pieces in this book have appeared in the St James's Gazette, the Oxford Magazine, or the National Observer. I have to thank the Proprietors of these papers for permission to republish.
A. D. G.
CONTENTS
AFTER HORACE
THE JOURNALIST ABROAD
VERNAL VERSES
PENSÉES DE NOEL
AD LECTIONEM SUAM
RUBÁIYYÁT OF MODERATIONS
LINES TO AN OLD FRIEND
THE PARADISE OF LECTURERS
A DIALOGUE ON ETHICS
PEDAGOGY
SONG FOR THE NAVY LEAGUE
A DREAM
THE SCHOOL of AGRICULTURE
THE LAST STRAW
THE 1713 AGAINST NEWNHAM
QUADRIVIAD, ll. 1-51
MUSICAL DEGREES
QUIETA MOVERE
GRAECULUS ESURIENS
THE ROAD TO RENOWN
L'AFFAIRE (CHAPTER ONE)
UNSELFISH DEVOTION
THE ARREST
"THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN"
THE PATRIOT'S "POME"
MR MORLEY'S APOLOGY
HONESTY REWARDED
THE END OF IT
A NEW DEPARTURE
MULLIGAN ON THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT
BROKEN VOWS
THE TRUE REMEDY
UNITED IRELAND
JUSTICE FOR PRIVATE MULVANEY
AFTER HORACE
What asks the Bard? He prays for nought
But what the truly virtuous crave:
That is, the things he plainly ought
To have.
'Tis not for wealth, with all the shocks
That vex distracted millionaires,
Plagued by their fluctuating stocks
And shares:
While plutocrats their millions new
Expend upon each costly whim,
A great deal less than theirs will do
For him;
The simple incomes of the poor
His meek poetic soul content:
Say, L30,000 at four
Per cent.!
His taste in residence is plain:
No palaces his heart rejoice:
A cottage in a lane (Park Lane
For choice)—