LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664583505

      Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       The Author tells of his Good Deeds.

       The Angel appears to have made a slight Mistake.

       The Author is troubled concerning his Investments.

       And questions a Man of Thought.

       CHAPTER II

       Philosophy and the Dæmon.

       When the Dæmon will not work.

       CHAPTER III

       Literature and the Middle Classes.

       May a man of intelligence live, say, in Surbiton?

       CHAPTER IV

       Man and his Master.

       Why the Man in Uniform has, generally, sad Eyes.

       The Traveller’s one Friend.

       The disadvantage of being an unknown Person.

       CHAPTER V

       If only we had not lost our Tails!

       And little Boys would always tell the Truth!

       And everyone obtained his just Deserts!

       And only people would do Parlour Tricks who do them well!

       And all the World had Sense!

       CHAPTER VI

       Fire and the Foreigner.

       My British Stupidity.

       I am considered Cold and Mad.

       Sometimes I wish I were an American Woman.

       CHAPTER VII

       Too much Postcard.

       The Postcard as a Family Curse.

       The Artist’s Dream.

       Why not the Eternal Male for a change?

       How Women are ruined by Art.

       Difficulty of living up to the Poster.

       CHAPTER VIII

       The Lady and the Problem.

       The Stage Hero who, for once, had Justice done to him.

       She has a way of mislaying her Husband.

       What is a Lady to do with a Husband when she has finished with him?

       Could she—herself—have been to blame?

       CHAPTER IX

       Civilization and the Unemployed.

       Early instances of “Dumping.”

       Cricket, as viewed from the fixed Stars.

       The Heir of all Ages. His Inheritance.

       Is it “Playing the Game?”

       CHAPTER X

       Patience and the Waiter.

       Waiterkind in the making.

       His Little Mistakes.

       How to insult him.

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