Transcribed from the 1914 A. C. Fifield edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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CAMBRIDGE PIECES

By
Samuel Butler
Author of “Erewhon,” “The Way of All Flesh,” etc.

Edited by R. A. Streatfeild

London: A. C. Fifield
1914

CONTENTS

PAGE
On English Composition and Other Matters [205]
Our Tour [211]
Translation from an Unpublished Work of Herodotus [234]
The shield of Achilles, with variations [237]
Prospectus of the Great Split Society [239]
Powers [244]
A skit on examinations [251]
An Eminent Person [255]
Napoleon at St. Helena [256]
The Two Deans. I. [258]
The Two Deans. II. [259]
The Battle of Alma Mater [261]
On the Italian Priesthood [265]
Samuel Butler and the Simeonites, by A. T. Bartholomew [266]

On English Composition and Other Matters

This essay is believed to be the first composition by Samuel Butler that appeared in print. It was published in the first number of the Eagle, a magazine written and edited by members of St. John’s College, Cambridge, in the Lent Term, 1858, when Butler was in his fourth and last year of residence.