71
THE DIFFICULTIES OF MR. BULL 77
THE NATION IN ARMS 87
THE INCUBUS 92
THE WORKING MAN 94
CONCERNING A MILLENNIUM 97
FORECAST 100
PAGEANTS 103
RULES FOR FICTION 105
ART AND LETTERS 107
THE NOVEL 112
FRAGMENT OF A JARGONIAD 116
THE PUPILS' POINT OF VIEW 119
HINTS FOR THE TRANSACTION OF PUBLIC BUSINESS 122
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY 125
UNIVERSITY COMMISSIONS 127
DIPLOMAS IN ARCHITECTURE AT CAMBRIDGE 130
ICHABOD: A MONODY 133
THE PANACEA 137
THE HEROIC AGE 139
MAKERS OF HISTORY 142
ALMA MATER FILIO 145
IN MEMORIAM EXAMINATORIS CUIUSDAM 148

Nearly all the flights in this book have been first taken in the
_Cornhill Magazine_, the _Oxford Magazine_, or the _Saturday Review_.
They are reproduced by the kind permission of the Editors of these
periodicals. I am allowed also to reprint a set of verses published by
Messrs. Constable & Co.

A. D. G.

_November_, 1912

M. T. CICERONIS DE LEGE BODLEIANA ORATIO

[LITERALLY TRANSLATED BY A BALLIOL FIRST-CLASS MAN]

[On a Proposal to place Bicycles within the precincts of the Bodleian
Library]

I. Not concerning a thing of no moment, O Conscript Fathers, you are now
called upon to decide: whether to one man by the counsel and advice of
Curators it is to be permitted that he should take away from you the
power of placing in the Proscholium the instruments of celerity, the
assistances of (your) feet, the machines appointed by a certain natural
providence for the performance of your duties: whether, in which place
our ancestors sold pigs with the greatest consent