THE CASUAL WARD
Reading edition
ACADEMIC AND OTHER ODDMENTS
by A. D. GODLEY
LONDON SMITH, ELDER & CO. 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1912 [All rights reserved]
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED LONDON AND BECCLES
CONTENTS
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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