A miscellaneous collection of short stories gathered mostly from the author's later life. Some good writing, of course, as expected, but few of these made a particularly strong impression. Several good pieces of humour, in particular The Parish Magazine and The Story of Spedegue's Dropper, though the cricketing theme of the latter doesn't interest me. The Nightmare Room was my favourite story, a seemingly shocking piece, with a bathetic ending. Rather a lot of typos, especially in the First World War story The Death Voyage. ( )