The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments

CONTENTS
	page
M. T. Ciceronis de Lege Bodleiana Oratio	1
The Eights in Fiction	6
I. Old Style	6
II. New or Kodak Style (From the French)	10
Thucydides on the Influenza	13
Herodotus on Horseback	17
Tac. Hist., Bk. VI	21
The Journalistic Touch	24
I. The True Tale of Troy	24
II. Forgotten History	32
Philogeorgos, or Concerning Bribery	38
Phileleutheros; or, Concerning the People’s Will	43
The Tutor’s Expedient	49
The End and Object—	64
The Tortured Tutor: a Dialogue of the Dead	71
The Difficulties of Mr. Bull	77
The Nation in Arms	87
The Incubus	92
The Working Man	94
Concerning a Millennium	97
Forecast	100
Pageants	103
Rules for Fiction	105
Art and Letters	107
The Novel	112
Fragment of a Jargoniad	116
The Pupils’ Point of View	119
Hints for the Transaction of Public Business	122
Equality of Opportunity	125
University Commissions	127
Diplomas in Architecture at Cambridge	130
Ichabod: a Monody	133
The Panacea	137
The Heroic Age	139
Makers of History	142
Alma Mater Filio	145
In Memoriam Examinatoris Cuiusdam	148

Nearly all the flights in this book have been first taken in the Cornhill Magazine, the Oxford Magazine, or the Saturday Review. They are reproduced by the kind permission of the Editors of these periodicals. I am allowed also to reprint a set of verses published by Messrs. Constable & Co.

A. D. G.

November, 1912

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