It was
clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake
of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought
I need not exclude all such topical remarks as in them too were
uttered, nor throw into a past tense such of those remarks as I have
retained. Perhaps a book of essays ought to seem as if it had been
written a few days before publication. On the other hand--but this is
a Note, not a Preface.
M.B.
Rapallo, 1920.
CONTENTS
A RELIC (1918)
`HOW SHALL I WORD IT?' (1910)
MOBLED KING (1911)
KOLNIYATSCH (1913)
NO. 2. THE PINES (1914)
A LETTER THAT WAS NOT WRITTEN (1914)
BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS (1914)
THE GOLDEN DRUGGET (1918)
HOSTS AND GUESTS (1918)
A POINT TO BE REMEMBERED (1918)
SERVANTS (1918)
GOING OUT FOR A WALK (1918)
QUIA IMPERFECTUM (1918)
SOMETHING DEFEASIBLE (1919)
`A CLERGYMAN' (1918)
THE CRIME (1920)
IN HOMES UNBLEST (1919)
WILLIAM AND MARY (1920)
ON SPEAKING FRENCH (1919)
LAUGHTER (1920)
A RELIC
1918.
Yesterday I found in a cupboard an old, small, battered portmanteau
which, by the initials on it, I recognised as my own property. The
lock appeared to have been forced. I dimly remembered having forced it
myself, with a poker, in my hot youth, after some journey in which I
had lost the key; and this act of violence was probably the reason why
the trunk had so long ago ceased to travel.
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