THE
CASUAL WARD

CONTENTS

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M. T. Ciceronis de Lege Bodleiana Oratio

1

The Eights in Fiction

6

   I.  Old Style

6

   II.  New or Kodak Style (From the French)

10

Thucydides on the Influenza

13

Herodotus on Horseback

17

Tac. Hist., Bk. VI

21

The Journalistic Touch

24

   I.  The True Tale of Troy

24

   II.  Forgotten History

32

Philogeorgos, or Concerning Bribery

38

Phileleutheros; or, Concerning the People’s Will

43

The Tutor’s Expedient

49

The End and Object—

64

The Tortured Tutor: a Dialogue of the Dead

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