Writing in The Star as Alpha of the Plough during the First World War, A. G. Gardiner produced short essays on whatever caught his eye. This selection takes in choosing a name, letter-writing, reading in bed, cats and dogs, the cricketer W. G. Grace, seeing visions and the white spats that made a man’s fortune, a diary of moods in a time of peril.
Graceful, companionable essays in the tradition of Lamb, ideal for reading a few at a time. Download the free EPUB.