About the Book

This antiquarian volume contains a collection of E. V. Lucas's writings and short essays on a variety of subjects. These witty and often thought-provoking essays make for fascinating light reading, and will be of considerable interest to fans and collectors of Lucas's work.

The essays contained herein include: The Town Week, A Word on Toast, Concerning Breakfast, Footpaths and Walking-Sticks, Birds and their Enemies, The Divine Leaf, School-Hampers and Fireworks, The Poetry of Catalogues, Clothes Old and New, Fires, The Post, etcetera.

About the Author

Edward Verrall Lucas (1868 - 1938) was a renowned English novelist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, and short story writer. We are republishing this vintage volume now in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.