Publisher's Synopsis
Some of these essays have appeared in THE LONDON MERCURY, THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE OUTLOOK, and THE CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. Others have been selected from a large number I contributed (week by week, under the pseudonym of 'Peter of Pomfret') to the YORKSHIRE OBSERVER. Others again are the first-fruits of a current series of such things I am contributing to THE CHALLENGE under the general title of 'New Papers from Lilliput.' I take this opportunity of thanking all the editors concerned for their hospitality to these not, I trust, too ill-favoured bantlings of mine, and hope that they will not regret it if they should now chance to renew the acquaintance.J. B. P.CONTENTS ON A CERTAIN PROVINCIAL PLAYERON A NEW KIND OF FICTIONA MAD SHEPHERDAUDACITY IN AUTHORSHIPIN PRAISE OF THE HYPERBOLEON CARTOMANCYON BEING KIND TO THE OLDTHE DREAMON FILLING IN FORMSTHREE MENTHE BOGEY OF SPACEA ROAD TO ONESELFTHE EDITORON AN OLD BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORYON NOT MEETING AUTHORSTHE ETERNAL CHEAP JACKHOLIDAY NOTES FROM THE COAST OF BOHEMIAON A MOUTH-ORGANAN APOLOGY FOR BAD PIANISTSA FATHER'S TRAGEDYON GETTING OFF TO SLEEPON TRAVEL BY TRAINTHE PEEPON VULGAR ERRORSON GOSSIPA ROAD AND SOME MOODSON A CERTAIN CONTEMPORARY ESSAYISTON LIFE AND LUCKY-BAGSGRIGSBY-A RECORD AND AN APPRECIATIONA PARAGON OF HOSTS
