Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
CASUAL WARD

ACADEMIC AND OTHER
ODDMENTS

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BY
A. D. GODLEY

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LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO.
15 WATERLOO PLACE
1912
[_All rights reserved_]

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BECCLES

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