LAUDS AND LIBELS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- THE HAWARDEN HORACE
- MORE HAWARDEN HORACE
- HUMOURS OF THE FRAY
- PARTY PORTRAITS
- THE BRAIN OF THE NATION
- WAR’S SURPRISES
LAUDS AND LIBELS
BY
C. L. GRAVES
LONDON
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD.
1918
CONTENTS
| MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS— | PAGE |
| Piccadilly | 9 |
| To “Martin Ross” | 11 |
| To Stephen Leacock | 14 |
| To “Bartimeus” | 16 |
| On Re-reading “Barchester Towers” | 18 |
| “Bleak House” | 20 |
| Lines on a New History | 22 |
| To my Godson | 24 |
| The House-Master | 27 |
| The Old Matron | 29 |
| Constable Jinks | 31 |
| ’Twas Fifty Years Ago | 33 |
| New Men and Old Studies | 36 |
| Remunerative Rhymes | 39 |
| WAR WORKERS AND OTHERS— | |
| To Mr. Balfour on his Return | 43 |
| The Submerged Leader | 45 |