CONTENTS A Plea for the Simpler Drama On A Notebook On Unknown People On A Van Tromp His Character On Thruppenny Bits On The Hotel at Palma And A Proposed Guide-Book The Death of Wandering Peter The Tree Of Knowledge A Norfolk Man The Odd People Letter of Advice and Apology to A Young Burglar The Monkey Question: An Appeal to Common Sense The Empire Builder Caedwalla A Unit of England The Relic The Ironmonger A Force in Gaul On Bridges A Blue Book Perigeux of the Perigord The Position Home The Way to Fairyland The Portrait of a Child On Experience On Immortality On Sacramental Things In Patria