PREFACE
To the literary, literal, and scientific mind purposeless fiction is abhorrent. Fortunately we all are literally and scientifically inclined; the doom of purposeless fiction is sounded; and it is a great comfort to believe that, in the near future, only literary and scientific works suitable for man, woman, child, and suffragette, are to adorn the lingerie-laden counters in our great department shops.
It is, then, with animation and confidence that the author politely offers to a regenerated nation this modern, moral, literary, and highly scientific work, thinly but ineffectually disguised as fiction, in deference to the prejudices of a few old-fashioned story-readers who still survive among us.
R. W. C.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
[I. An Idyl of the Idle]
[II. The Idler]
[III. The Green Mouse]
[IV. An Ideal Idol]
[V. Sacharissa]
[VI. In Wrong]
[VII. The Invisible Wire]
[VIII. "In Heaven and Earth"]
[IX. A Cross-town Car]
[X. The Lid Off]
[XI. Betty]
[XII. Sybilla]
[XIII. The Crown Prince]
[XIV. Gentlemen of the Press]
[XV. Drusilla]
[XVI. Flavilla]
