CONTENTS
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Darned Mounseer
6
The Englishman
13
The Disagreeable Man
16
The Coming By-and-By
22
The Highly Respectable Gondolier
26
The Fairy Queen’s Song
32
Is Life a Boon
38
The Modern Major-General
42
The Heavy Dragoon
49
Proper Pride
56
The Policeman’s Lot
63
The Baffled Grumbler
69
The House of Peers
74
A Merry Madrigal
81
The Duke And The Duchess
84
Eheu Fugaces—!
92
They’ll None of ’em be Missed
99
Girl Graduates
106
Braid The Raven Hair
113
The Working Monarch
119
The Ape And The Lady
123
Only Roses
130
The Rover’s Apology
136
An Appeal
143
The Reward of Merit
146
The Magnet and the Churn
153
The Family Fool
161
Sans Souci
169
A Recipe
175
The Merryman and his Maid
182
The Susceptible Chancellor
191
When a Merry Maiden Marries
198
The British Tar
204
A Man who would Woo a Fair Maid
209
The Sorcerer’s Song
211
The Fickle Breeze
219
The First Lord’s Song
227
Would you Know?
240
Speculation
254
Ah Me!
255
The Duke of Plaza-Toro
262
The Æsthete
271
Said I to Myself, Said I
278
Sorry her Lot
286
The Contemplative Sentry
292
The Philosophic Pill
299
Blue Blood
307
The Judge’s Song
315
When I First put this Uniform on
322
Solatium
329
A Nightmare
335
Don’t Forget!
345
The Suicide’s Grave
354
He And She
361
The Mighty Must
367
A Mirage
374
The Ghosts’ High Noon
381
The Humane Mikado
388
Willow Waly!
397
Life is Lovely all the Year
403
The Usher’s Charge
411
The Great Oak Tree
418
King Goodheart
424
Sleep on!
431
The Love-sick Boy
439
Poetry Everywhere
445
He Loves!
453
True Diffidence
458
The Tangled Skein
466
My Lady
471
One against the World
473
Put a Penny in the Slot
480
Good Little Girls
482
Life
487
Limited Liability
490
Anglicised Utopia
497
An English Girl
499
A Manager’s Perplexities
504
Out of Sorts
506
How it’s Done
512
A Classical Revival
515
The Practical Joker
523
The National Anthem
526
Her Terms
534
The Independent Bee
536
The Disconcerted Tenor
547
The Played-out Humorist
553