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ОглавлениеTHE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVERYONE
THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF A QUARREL BETWEEN A MAN WE ALL KNOW AND A VERY OLD FAMILY
AT THE ‘RED LION,’ RAMPLE STREET
THE DANGER OF ACCEPTING GIFTS WHILE HOLDING MUNICIPAL OFFICE
THE HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE OF A FORGOTTEN GOD
HOW THE RATIONAL AMUSEMENTS OF THE GREAT ARE LIMITED
THE IMPRUDENCE OF A POLITICIAN IN TRAVELLING FURTHER THAN THE NEWSPAPERS
THE VALUE OF A NEW POINT OF VIEW
HOW I MET WITH A FAMOUS CHARACTER IN A CAFÉ
THE LAST GLIMPSE OF A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN SOCIETY
ADVANCED THOUGHT AND THE FOOLISH IDLER
THE CYNICISM OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES
THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
A SONG IN THE MANNER OF MR WALTER DE LA MARE
‘Æ’: THE INEFFABLE SPLENDOUR OF THINGUMBOB
SIR WM WATSON: ON RECEIVING AN ÉDITION-DE-LUXE OF ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE THREE BLIND MICE (PERIODS OF EUROPEAN NONSENSE)
MR JAMES STEPHENS: ‘SEUMAS BEG AGAIN’
A LECTURE NOT YET WRITTEN OR DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR SIR A. T. QUILLER-COUCH: ON THE DIRECT METHOD
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: NEW STYLE. AS IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE WRITTEN BY MR LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
THE LATER MANNER OF MR W. B. YEATS
A SONG: NOT IN THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MR ALFRED NOYES
FROM A GREAT POLITICAL-BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA, ‘BUBB BODINGTON’ NOT YET WRITTEN BY MR JOHN DRINKWATER
AN EPILOGUE TO ‘TRIVIA’ (With apologies to Mr Logan Pearsall Smith)
