Note: Most of these Essays appeared in The Athenæum, under the title “Marginalia” and over the signature AUTOLYCUS. The others were first printed in The Weekly Westminster Gazette, The London Mercury and Vanity Fair (New York).



Contents
Centenaries -- On re-reading 'Candide' -- Accidie -- Subject-matter of poetry -- Water music -- Pleasures -- Modern folk poetry -- Bibliophily -- Democratic art -- Accumulations -- On deviating into sense -- Polite conversation -- Nationality in love -- How the days draw in! -- Tibet -- Beauty in 1920 -- Great thoughts -- Advertisement -- Euphues redivivus -- The author of 'Eminent Victorians' -- Edward Thomas -- A Wordsworth anthology -- Verhaeren -- Edward Lear -- Sir Christopher Wren -- Ben Jonson -- Chaucer.