BY
C. L. GRAVES

LONDON
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD.
1918

CONTENTS

[MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS—]PAGE
Piccadilly[9]
To “Martin Ross”[11]
To Stephen Leacock[14]
To “Bartimeus”[16]
On Re-reading “Barchester Towers”[18]
“Bleak House”[20]
Lines on a New History[22]
To my Godson[24]
The House-Master[27]
The Old Matron[29]
Constable Jinks[31]
’Twas Fifty Years Ago[33]
New Men and Old Studies[36]
Remunerative Rhymes[39]
[WAR WORKERS AND OTHERS—]
To Mr. Balfour on his Return[43]
The Submerged Leader[45]
A Ministerial Wail[47]
The Flapper[49]
The Feminine Factotum[52]
To a New Knight[54]
The Tenth Muse[56]
[LAYS OF THE LARDER—]
Sugar[59]
Tea Shortage[62]
Margarine[65]
A Ballad of Eels[67]
A Song of Food-Saving[70]
A Queue Song[73]
The Imperfect Economist[74]
The War Pig: a Palinode[75]
[VARIA—]
Bath[79]
In Wild Wales[82]
The Little River[84]
Six Vile Verbs[86]
Some More Bad Words[88]
To a Modern Muse[90]
Ballade of Free Verse[92]
The Strife of Tongues[93]
“Jong”[95]

NOTE

Acknowledgment is due to the Proprietors and Editor of “Punch”
for their courtesy in allowing me to reprint these pieces.

C. L. G.