_104_

EVANESCENCE _105_

COMPLACENCY _106_

MY PORTRAIT _107_

THE RATIONALIST _108_

THOUGHTS _109_

PHRASES _110_

DISENCHANTMENT _111_

ASK ME NO MORE _112_

FAME _113_

NEWS ITEMS _114_

JOY _115_

IN ARCADY _116_

WORRIES _117_

THINGS TO WRITE _118_

PROPERTY _119_

IN A FIX _120_

VERTIGO _122_

THE EVIL EYE _123_

THE EPITHET _124_

THE GARDEN PARTY _125_

WELTSCHMERZ _126_

BOGEYS _127_

LIFE-ENHANCEMENT _129_

ECLIPSE _130_

THE PYRAMID _131_

THE FULL MOON _132_

LUTON _133_

THE DANGER OF GOING TO CHURCH _134_

THE SONNET _136_

WELTANSCHAUUNG _137_

THE ALIEN _138_

HYPOTHESES _139_

THE ARGUMENT _140_

A GREETING

'What funny clothes you wear, dear Readers! And your hats! The thought
of your hats does make me laugh. And I think your sex-theories quite
horrid.'

Thus across the void of Time I send, with a wave of my hand, a greeting
to that quaint, remote, outlandish, unborn people whom we call
Posterity, and whom I, like other very great writers, claim as my
readers--urging them to hurry up and get born, that they may have the
pleasure of reading 'More Trivia.'

MORE TRIVIA

REASSURANCE

I look at my overcoat and my hat hanging in the hall with reassurance;
for although I go out of doors with one individuality to-day, when
yesterday I had quite another, yet my clothes keep my various selves
buttoned up together, and enable all these otherwise irreconcilable
aggregates of psychological phenomena to pass themselves off as one
person.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE

Before opening the front-door I paused, for a moment of profound
consideration.

Dim-lit, shadowy, full of menace and unimaginable chances, stretched all
around my door the m