| Page | | Author's Foreword | ix | | Penguin Persons | 1 | | Spring Comes to Thumping Dick | 18 | | The Passing of the Stage Sundial | 33 | | On Singing Songs with One Finger | 41 | | The Immorality of Shop-windows | 46 | | A Forgotten American Poet | 51 | | New Poetry and the Lingering Line | 65 | | The Lies We Learn in Our Youth | 77 | | The Bad Manners of Polite People | 87 | | On Giving Up Golf Forever | 96 | | “Grape-Vine” Erudition | 108 | | Business Before Grammar | 114 | | Wood Ashes and Progress | 118 | | The Vacant Room in Drama | 128 | | On Giving an Author a Plot | 132 | | The Twilight Veil | 136 | | Spring in the Garden | 154 | | The Bubble, Reputation | 168 | | The Old House on the Bend | 180 | | Concerning Hat-trees | 184 | | The Shrinking of Kingman's Field | 189 | | Mumblety-peg and Middle Age | 209 | | Barber Shops of Yesterday | 229 | | The Button Box | 234 | | Peppermints | 239 |
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