This collection of essays, now republished in the "Wayfarers' Library," were written during the war, and first appeared in book form during the war. Like the preceding volume, _Pebbles on the Shore_, they were the literary diversions of a time of great public anxiety and heavy personal tasks. The writing of them was a happy distraction from unhappy things, and now that the great wind has passed it is a pleasure to find the leaves it blew down gathered between the companionable covers of the "Wayfarer." I leave them as they fell. A Fellow Traveller On a Famous Sermon On Pockets and Things On a Country Platform On a Distant View of a Pig In Defence of Ignorance On a Shiny Night…
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