Old lamps for new

BY
E. V. LUCAS
AUTHOR OF “OVER BEMERTON’S”
“MR. INGLESIDE,” ETC.

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1911.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

		PAGE
The School for Sympathy		[1]
On the Track of Vermeer		[7]
The Fool’s Paradise		[45]
Consolers of Genius		[50]
An American Hero		[60]
Mr. Hastings		[66]
Thoughts on Tan		[73]
On Leaving one’s Beat		[77]
The Deer Park		[82]
The Rarities		[87]
The Owl		[94]
The Unusual Morning		[100]
The Embarrassed Eliminators		[105]
A Friend of the Town		[115]
Gypsy		[120]
A Sale		[125]
A Georgian Town		[141]
Mus Penfold—and Billy		[147]
Theologians at the Mitre		[158]
The Windmill		[178]
A Glimpse of Civilization		[183]
Her Royal ’Tumnal Tintiness		[188]
Five Characters—
I.	The Kind Red Lioness	[195]
II.	A Darling of the Gods	[198]
III.	The Nut	[201]
IV.	The Master of the New Suburb	[202]
V.	The Second Fiddle	[207]
Without Souls—
I.	The Builders	[212]
II.	Bush’s Grievance	[216]
III.	A London Landmark	[218]
The Interviewer’s Bag—
I.	The Autographer	[221]
II.	The Equalizer	[223]
III.	A Hardy Annual	[224]
IV.	Another of Our Conquerors	[226]
V.	A Case for Loyola	[230]
The Letter N—A Tragedy in High Life		[233]
The New Chauffeur		[240]
The Fir-tree: Revised Version		[243]
The Life Spherical		[250]
Four Fables—
I.	The Stopped Clock	[254]
II.	Truth and Another	[255]
III.	The Exemplar	[255]
IV.	The Good Man and Cupid	[256]

CONTENTS