ADVENTURES
AND
ENTHUSIASMS
BY
E. V. LUCAS
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Perfect Guest [13]
The Sparrows' Friend [17]
The Golden Eagle [20]
A Morning Call [26]
The True Wizard of the North [30]
Innocence and Impulse [42]
Possessions [45]
Drake and His Game [49]
Admirals All—To be [56]
A Study in Symmetry [61]
Davy Jones [66]
The Man of Ross [71]
The Innocent's Progress [85]
Thoughts at the Ferry [92]
A Little Child [97]
A Devonshire Inn [103]
On Shops and Stalls [107]
Third Thoughts [113]
The Italian Question [118]
On Disguise [122]
Broken English [126]
Enthusiasts [136]
Telephonics [141]
The World Remedial [147]
What the Sun Did Not See [152]
Two of Martha's Sons [158]
Freaks of Memory [164]
The Moral Dressing-Table [169]
Thackeray's School Fellow [173]
In re Physiognomy
I Identification [184]
II Dr. Sullivan [187]
The World's Desire [191]
A Conqueror [197]
The Newness of the Old [202]
Aunts [206]
On Recitations [210]
Clicquot Well Won [218]
The Sufferer [223]
A South Sea Bubble [227]
On Finding Things [231]
Punctuality [236]
The Other Two [240]
On Secret Passages [244]
Little Miss Banks [248]
Gentlemen Both [251]
On Epitaphs [255]
IN AND ABOUT LONDON
I A London Thrill [263]
II A Door Plate [268]
III Angel Advocacy [273]
IV The Soane Hogarths [277]
V Greenwich Hospital [281]
VI Kew in April [285]
VII Royal Windsor [288]
VIII Three Little Backwaters [292]
IX A Self-Made Statue [297]
X Crowds and a Bad Samaritan [302]
XI Before and After [306]
XII The Green Among the Grey [311]
XIII The Fatherly Force [318]
XIV My Friend Flora [325]