Chapter I: Front Matter

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ORIENTATIONS

NOVELS AT SIX SHILLINGS EACH

_Uniform with this Volume_

=An Outcast of the Islands.= By JOSEPH CONRAD. Second Edition. =Almayer's Folly.= By JOSEPH CONRAD. =The Ebbing of the Tide.= By LOUIS BECKE. =A First Fleet Family.= By LOUIS BECKE and WALTER JEFFERY. =Paddy's Woman.= By HUMPHREY JAMES. =Clara Hopgood.= By MARK RUTHERFORD. Second Edition. =The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes.= Portrait of the Author. Second Edition. =The Stickit Minister.= By S. R. CROCKETT. =The Lilac Sunbonnet.= By S. R. CROCKETT. =The Raiders.= By S. R. CROCKETT. =The Grey Man.= By S. R. CROCKETT. =In a Man's Mind.= By J. R. WATSON. =A Daughter of the Fen.= By J. T. BEALBY. =The Herb-Moon.= By JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. =Nancy Noon.= By BENJAMIN SWIFT. =Hugh Wynne.= By S. WEIR MITCHELL. =The Tormentor.= By BENJAMIN SWIFT. =The Mutineer.= By LOUIS BECKE and WALTER JEFFERY. =The Destroyer.= By BENJAMIN SWIFT. =The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham.= By JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. =Mrs Keith's Crime.= By Mrs W. K. CLIFFORD. =Prisoners of Conscience.= By AMELIA E. BARR. =Pacific Tales.= By LOUIS BECKE. =The People of Clopton.= By GEORGE BARTRAM. =Outlaws of the Marches.= By Lord ERNEST HAMILTON. =The Silver Christ.= Stories by OUIDA. =The White-Headed Boy.= By GEORGE BARTRAM. =Tales of Unrest.= By JOSEPH CONRAD. =The School for Saints.= By JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. =Evelyn Innes.= By GEORGE MOORE. =Rodman, the Boatsteerer.= By LOUIS BECKE. =The Romance of a Midshipman.= By W. CLARK RUSSELL. =The Making of a Saint.= By W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. =The Two Standards.= By W. BARRY, D.D. =The Mawkin of the Flow.= By Lord ERNEST HAMILTON. =Love is not so Light.= By CONSTANCE COTTERELL. =Moonlight.= By MARY E. MANN. =I, Thou, and the Other One.= By AMELIA E. BARR.

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London

T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square, E.C.

ORIENTATIONS

By William Somerset Maugham Author of 'Liza of Lambeth,' 'The Making of a Saint'

London T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Square 1899

[_All Rights reserved_]

TO MRS EDWARD JOHNSTON

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE PUNCTILIOUSNESS OF DON SEBASTIAN 3

A BAD EXAMPLE 37

DE AMICITIA 97

FAITH 133

THE CHOICE OF AMYNTAS 165

DAISY 219

_C'est surtout, par ses nouvelles d'un jeune ecrivain qu'on peut se
rendre compte du tour de son esprit. Il y cherche la voie qui lui
est propre dans une serie d'essais de genre et de style differents,
qui sont comme des orientations, pour trouver son moi litteraire._

Orientations

THE PUNCTILIOUSNESS OF DON SEBASTIAN