Brief Diversions

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Author

Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984

Title

Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English literature -- 20th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49755

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49755

Release Date

August 21, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BRIEF DIVERSIONS being Tales Travesties and Epigrams by J. B. P R I E S T L E Y
2. 2.NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.TALES — THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVERYONE — A MOVING STORY OF REAL LIFE — THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF A QUARREL BETWEEN A MAN WE ALL KNOW AND A VERY OLD FAMILY — AT THE ‘RED LION,’ RAMPLE STREET — THE DANGER OF ACCEPTING GIFTS WHILE HOLDING MUNICIPAL OFFICE — THE HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE OF A FORGOTTEN GOD — HOW THE RATIONAL AMUSEMENTS OF THE GREAT ARE LIMITED — THE IMPRUDENCE OF A POLITICIAN IN TRAVELLING FURTHER THAN THE NEWSPAPERS — THE WRONG WORLD — THE VALUE OF A NEW POINT OF VIEW — THE UNINVITED GUEST — HOW I MET WITH A FAMOUS CHARACTER IN A CAFÉ — THE MUTINY — DEATH AND THE FIDDLER — THE COLLEGE OF IMMORTAL FAME — THE LONELY SOUL — THE LOST PATH — THE LAST GLIMPSE OF A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN SOCIETY — ADVANCED THOUGHT AND THE FOOLISH IDLER — THE WONDERFUL VIEW — THE ROOM OF LOST SOULS — THE CYNICISM OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES — THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT — THE MORAL
5. 5.TRAVESTIES — A DEDICATION FOR THE ‘SHROPSHIRE LAD’ TO ALL THE GRAVEDIGGERS BETWEEN LUDLOW TOWN AND HUGHLEY — A SONG IN THE MANNER OF MR WALTER DE LA MARE — ‘Æ’: THE INEFFABLE SPLENDOUR OF THINGUMBOB — SIR WM WATSON: ON RECEIVING AN ÉDITION-DE-LUXE OF ELLA WHEELER WILCOX — PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE THREE BLIND MICE (PERIODS OF EUROPEAN NONSENSE) — MR JAMES STEPHENS: ‘SEUMAS BEG AGAIN’ — A LECTURE NOT YET WRITTEN OR DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR SIR A. T. QUILLER-COUCH: ON THE DIRECT METHOD — LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: NEW STYLE. AS IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE WRITTEN BY MR LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE — THE LATER MANNER OF MR W. B. YEATS — A SONG: NOT IN THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MR ALFRED NOYES — FROM A GREAT POLITICAL-BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA, ‘BUBB BODINGTON’ NOT YET WRITTEN BY MR JOHN DRINKWATER — AN EPILOGUE TO ‘TRIVIA’ ( With apologies to Mr Logan Pearsall Smith )
6. 6.EPIGRAMS — THE OLD MAN AND THE NEWSPAPER — THE STUDENT AND HIS PRELECTORS — THE OPERAS OF MOZART — TO AN INDIFFERENT POET — R. L. STEVENSON — TO CERTAIN MODERN THEORISTS — THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE SHROPSHIRE LAD’ — THE POETRY OF MR W. B. YEATS — ‘Æ’ — TO PROFESSOR G. B. SAINTSBURY — TO THE PRODUCER OF A RECENT LIGHT MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT WHO BOASTED OF ITS COST — THE STOUT IDEALIST — COLERIDGE — TO A DEPARTED GUEST — A VERY OLD MAN — THE SYMPHONY — OF A LADY

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