Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD OTHER WORKS BY E. V. LUCAS The Vermilion Box Landmarks Listener's Lure Mr. Ingleside Over Bemerton's London Lavender Cloud and Silver Loiterer's Harvest One Day and Another Fireside and Sunshine Character and Comedy Old Lamps for New The Hambledon Men The Open Road The Friendly Town Her Infinite Variety Good Company The Gentlest Art The Second Post A Little of Everything Harvest Home Variety Lane The Best of Lamb The Life of Charles Lamb A Swan and Her Friends London Revisited A Wanderer in Venice A Wanderer in Paris A Wanderer in London A Wanderer in Holland A Wanderer in Florence The British School Highways and Byways in Sussex Anne's Terrible Good Nature The Slowcoach Remember Louvain! Swollen-Headed William and The Pocket Edition of the Works of Charles Lamb: I. Miscellaneous Prose; II. Elia; III. Children's Books; IV. Poems and Plays; V. and VI. Letters. A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD WITH DIVERSIONS BY E. V. LUCAS THIRD EDITION METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _This Book was First Published September 20th 1917_ _Second Edition December 1917_ _Third Edition 1918_ CONTENTS PAGE A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD 1 DIVERSIONS-- NURSES 93 NO. 344260 99 THE TWO PERKINSES 106 ARTS OF INVASION 118 THE MARBLE ARCH AND PETER MAGNUS 128 THE OLDEST JOKE 133 THE PUTTENHAMS 140 POETRY MADE EASY 148 A PIONEER 153 FULL CIRCLE 158 A FRIEND OF MAN 164 THE LISTENER 171 THE DARK SECRET 176 THE SCHOLAR AND THE PIRATE 180 A SET OF THREE 191 A LESSON 196 ON BELLONA'S HEM (SECOND SERIES)-- A REVEL IN GAMBOGIA 201 THE MISFIRE 207 A LETTER 212 A MANOR IN THE AIR 219 RIVALRY 223 A FIRST COMMUNION IN THE WAR ZONE 229 THE ACE OF DIAMONDS 234 THE REWARD OF OUR BROTHER THE POILU 239 NOTE 245 =A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD= A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD I.--INTRODUCTORY