44 Essays

A compilation volume of Morley essays with an introduction by Rollo LaVerne Lyman. A bit uneven, as such volumes must tend to be, but there are some real gems in here, particularly in the first third of the book. My favorites were "On Unanswering Letters," "On Visiting Bookshops," "Fall Fever,"

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"Safety Pins," "On Going to Bed," and "17 Heriot Row," which contains this fascinating line: "Always take a monocle on a vagabond tour: it is a never-failing source of amusement and passport of gentility" (p. 70).

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