Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams
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- BRIEF DIVERSIONS being Tales Travesties and Epigrams by J. B. P R I E S T L E Y
- NOTE
- CONTENTS
- TALES
- THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVERYONE
- A MOVING STORY OF REAL LIFE
- 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 WRONG WORLD
- THE VALUE OF A NEW POINT OF VIEW
- THE UNINVITED GUEST
- HOW I MET WITH A FAMOUS CHARACTER IN A CAFÉ
- THE MUTINY
- DEATH AND THE FIDDLER
- THE COLLEGE OF IMMORTAL FAME
- THE LONELY SOUL
- THE LOST PATH
- THE LAST GLIMPSE OF A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN SOCIETY
- ADVANCED THOUGHT AND THE FOOLISH IDLER
- THE WONDERFUL VIEW
- THE ROOM OF LOST SOULS
- THE CYNICISM OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES
- THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
- THE MORAL
- TRAVESTIES
- A DEDICATION FOR THE ‘SHROPSHIRE LAD’ TO ALL THE GRAVEDIGGERS BETWEEN LUDLOW TOWN AND HUGHLEY
- 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)
- EPIGRAMS
- THE OLD MAN AND THE NEWSPAPER
- THE STUDENT AND HIS PRELECTORS
- THE OPERAS OF MOZART
- TO AN INDIFFERENT POET
- R. L. STEVENSON
- TO CERTAIN MODERN THEORISTS
- THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE SHROPSHIRE LAD’
- THE POETRY OF MR W. B. YEATS
- ‘Æ’
- TO PROFESSOR G. B. SAINTSBURY
- TO THE PRODUCER OF A RECENT LIGHT MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT WHO BOASTED OF ITS COST
- THE STOUT IDEALIST
- COLERIDGE
- TO A DEPARTED GUEST
- A VERY OLD MAN
- THE SYMPHONY
- OF A LADY
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