CONTENTS
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| A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD | [1] |
| DIVERSIONS— | |
| Nurses | [93] |
| No. 344260 | [99] |
| The Two Perkinses | [106] |
| Arts of Invasion | [118] |
| The Marble Arch and Peter Magnus | [128] |
| The Oldest Joke | [133] |
| The Puttenhams | [140] |
| Poetry made Easy | [148] |
| A Pioneer | [153] |
| Full Circle | [158] |
| A Friend of Man | [164] |
| The Listener | [171] |
| The Dark Secret | [176] |
| The Scholar and the Pirate | [180] |
| A Set of Three | [191] |
| A Lesson | [196] |
| ON BELLONA'S HEM (SECOND SERIES)— | |
| A Revel in Gambogia | [201] |
| The Misfire | [207] |
| A Letter | [212] |
| A Manor in the Air | [219] |
| Rivalry | [223] |
| A First Communion in the War Zone | [229] |
| The Ace of Diamonds | [234] |
| The Reward of our Brother the Poilu | [239] |
| Note | [245] |
A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD
A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD
I.—Introductory
A curious and very entertaining work lies before me, or, to be more accurate, ramparts me, for it is in four ponderous volumes, capable, each, even in less powerful hands than those of the Great Lexicographer, of felling a bookseller. At these volumes I have been sipping, beelike, at odd times for some years, and I now propose to yield some of the honey—the season having become timely, since the great majority of the heroes of its thousands of pages hail from Baghdad; and Baghdad, after all its wonderful and intact Oriental past, is to-day under Britain's thumb.