Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 PLAYER ON A NEW KIND OF FICTION A MAD SHEPHERD AUDACITY IN AUTHORSHIP IN PRAISE OF THE HYPERBOLE ON CARTOMANCY ON BEING KIND TO THE OLD THE DREAM ON FILLING IN FORMS THREE MEN THE BOGEY OF SPACE A ROAD TO ONESELF THE EDITOR ON AN OLD BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY ON NOT MEETING AUTHORS THE ETERNAL CHEAP JACK HOLIDAY NOTES FROM THE COAST OF BOHEMIA ON A MOUTH-ORGAN AN APOLOGY FOR BAD PIANISTS A FATHER’S TRAGEDY ON GETTING OFF TO SLEEP ON TRAVEL BY TRAIN THE PEEP ON VULGAR ERRORS ON GOSSIP A ROAD AND SOME MOODS ON A CERTAIN CONTEMPORARY ESSAYIST ON LIFE AND LUCKY-BAGS GRIGSBY—A RECORD AND AN APPRECIATION A PARAGON OF HOSTS