SOME MEMORIES
My Remarkable Uncle
The Old Farm and the New Frame
The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen
LITERARY STUDIES
The British Soldier
The Mathematics of the Lost Chord
The Passing of the Kitchen
Come Back to School
What’s in a Name?
Who Canonizes the Classics?
Among the Antiques
SPORTING SECTION
What Is a Sport?
Why Do We Fish?
When Fellers Go Fishing
Eating Air
STUDIES IN HUMOUR
The Saving Grace of Humour
Laughing Off Our History
War and Humour
MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS
Christmas Rapture
Christmas Shopping
War- time Santa Claus
War- time Christmas
GOODWILL STUFF
Cricket for Americans
Our American Visitors
A Welcome to a Visiting American
Why Is the United States?
The Transit of Venus
Migration in English Literature
Three Score and Ten
Index: There Is No Index
L’Envoi: A Salutation Across the Sea
Afterword
