The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments

by A. D. Godley

Transcribed from the 1912 Smith, Elder & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE
CASUAL WARD

ACADEMIC AND OTHER
ODDMENTS

by
A. D. GODLEY

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO.
15 WATERLOO PLACE
1912
[All rights reserved]

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BECCLES

CONTENTS
	page
M. T. Ciceronis de Lege BodleianaOratio	[1]
The Eights in Fiction	[6]
I. OldStyle	[6]
II. New orKodak Style (From the French)	[10]
Thucydides on the Influenza	[13]
Herodotus on Horseback	[17]
Tac. Hist., Bk. VI	[21]
The Journalistic Touch	[24]
I. The TrueTale of Troy	[24]
II. ForgottenHistory	[32]
Philogeorgos, or ConcerningBribery	[38]
Phileleutheros; or, Concerning thePeople’s Will	[43]
The Tutor’s Expedient	[49]
The End and Object—	[64]
The Tortured Tutor: a Dialogue of the Dead	[71]
The Difficulties of Mr.Bull	[77]
The Nation in Arms	[87]
The Incubus	[92]
The WorkingMan	[94]
Concerning a Millennium	[97]
Forecast	[100]
Pageants	[103]
Rules for Fiction	[105]
Art and Letters	[107]
The Novel	[112]
Fragment of a Jargoniad	[116]
The Pupils’ Point ofView	[119]
Hints for the Transaction of PublicBusiness	[122]
Equality of Opportunity	[125]
University Commissions	[127]
Diplomas in Architecture atCambridge	[130]
Ichabod: a Monody	[133]
The Panacea	[137]
The Heroic Age	[139]
Makers of History	[142]
Alma Mater Filio	[145]
In Memoriam ExaminatorisCuiusdam	[148]

Nearly all the flights in this book have been first taken in the Cornhill Magazine, the Oxford Magazine, or the Saturday Review. They are reproduced by the kind permission of the Editors of these periodicals. I am allowed also to reprint a set of verses published by Messrs. Constable & Co.

A. D. G.

November, 1912