BRIEF DIVERSIONS
Short, but there’s salt in’t....
The Double-Dealer
BRIEF DIVERSIONS
being Tales Travesties
and Epigrams
by
J. B. P R I E S T L E Y
Cambridge Bowes & Bowes
1922
| London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Glasgow: MacLehose, Jackson & Co. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. |
| COPYRIGHT |
NOTE
NEARLY all these pieces have appeared in the Cambridge Review, and I thank the Editor for his courtesy in allowing me to reprint them. A few travesties and epigrams have been added, and others have been revised. Most of the tales were written during the War, many of them while I was in Flanders, and at that time, being away from books, I imagined I was doing something new, being either ignorant or forgetful of the work of better men, such as Lord Dunsany and Mr T. W. H. Crosland, in a very similar form. To such gentlemen, I can only offer an apology if I seem to enter their little pleasaunces and tread clumsily where they who went before me stepped so lightly and delicately.
J. B. P.