CONTENTS

[TALES]
[The Impossibility of knowing Everyone][page 3]
[A Moving Story of Real Life][4]
[The True Account of a Quarrel between a Man we all know and a very old Family][5]
[At the ‘Red Lion,’ Rample Street][7]
[The Danger of Accepting Gifts while holding Municipal Office][8]
[The Humiliating Experience of a Forgotten God][10]
[How the Rational Amusements of the Great are Limited][11]
[The Imprudence of a Politician in Travelling Further than the Newspapers][12]
[The Wrong World][14]
[The Value of a New Point of View][15]
[The Uninvited Guest][16]
[How I met with a Famous Character in a Café][18]
[The Mutiny][19]
[Death and the Fiddler][20]
[The College of Immortal Fame][21]
[The Lonely Soul][23]
[The Lost Path][24]
[The last Glimpse of a well-known Figure in Society][25]
[Advanced Thought and the Foolish Idler][26]
[The Wonderful View][27]
[The Room of Lost Souls][28]
[The Cynicism of Absolute Monarchies][29]
[The Importance of Good Government][31]
[The Moral][33]
[TRAVESTIES]
[The Shropshire Lad][37]
[Mr Walter De La Mare][38]
[Æ][39]
[Sir Wm Watson][40]
[Professor G. B. Saintsbury][41]
[Mr James Stephens][43]
[Professor Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch][44]
[Mr Lascelles Abercrombie][46]
[Mr W. B. Yeats][48]
[Mr Alfred Noyes][49]
[Mr John Drinkwater][50]
[Trivia][52]
[EPIGRAMS][53]

TALES

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVERYONE

A PROFITEER, a Priest of Nebt-het, from Heliopolis, and a Fool were walking together one day, when they met the grim figure of War belching flame and fury.

‘Who is that?’ asked the fool and the priest of each other, quickening their pace. But the profiteer raised his hat, bowed humbly, and stayed to chat for a few moments with the terrible figure, before rejoining his companions.

Presently, they came upon Death, mumbling to himself by the roadside. The fool and the profiteer raised their eyebrows, and passed on, but the priest of Nebt-het touched his forehead and made certain strange signs with his hands, to which Death replied in like manner.