Chapter I: Preface: To Second Edition

A first edition limited to 1 copy and printed on rice paper and bound in buck-boards and signed by one of the editors was sold to the other editor, who left it in a taxi somewhere between Piccadilly Circus and the Bodleian.

W. C. S.
R. J. Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Editors acknowledge their comparative indebtedness to the Editors of _The Historical Review_, _Bradshaw_, _The Lancet_, _La Vie Parisienne_, etc., in which none of the following chapters has appeared. Their thanks are also due to their wife, for not preparing the index wrong. There is no index.

PRESS OPINIONS

“This slim volume....” (_The Bookworm._)

“... We look forward keenly to the appearance of their last work.” (_The Review of Reviews of Reviews._)

“... vague....” (_Vague._)

ERRATA

P. 3. _For_ Middletoe _read_ Mistletoe.

P. 9. _For_ looked 4th _read_ looked forth.

P. 43. _For_ Pheasant _read_ Peasant, throughout.

P. 44. _For_ sausage _read_ hostage.

AUTHORS’ NOTE

Several portions of this book have appeared in _Punch_, and are reprinted here by courtesy of the Proprietors of that paper.