PAPERS FROM LILLIPUT [Illustration: PUBLISHERS. CAMBRIDGE.] LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED GLASGOW: MACLEHOSE, JACKSON & CO. COPYRIGHT PAPERS FROM LILLIPUT BY J. B. PRIESTLEY AUTHOR OF ‘BRIEF DIVERSIONS’ CAMBRIDGE BOWES & BOWES 1922 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN TO MY FATHER _Some of these essays have appeared in THE LONDON MERCURY, THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE OUTLOOK, and THE CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. Others have been selected from a large number I contributed (week by week, under the pseudonym of ‘Peter of Pomfret’) to the YORKSHIRE OBSERVER. Others again are the first-fruits of a current series of such things I am contributing to THE CHALLENGE under the general title of ‘New Papers from Lilliput.’ I take this opportunity of thanking all the editors concerned for their hospitality to these not, I trust, too ill-favoured bantlings of mine, and hope that they will not regret it if they should now chance to renew the acquaintance._ _J. B. P._ CONTENTS PAGE ON A CERTAIN PROVINCIAL PLAYER 1 A NEW KIND OF FICTION 17 A MAD SHEPHERD 25 AUDACITY IN AUTHORSHIP 32 IN PRAISE OF THE HYPERBOLE 42 ON CARTOMANCY 50 ON BEING KIND TO THE OLD 58 THE DREAM 66 ON FILLING IN FORMS 72 THREE MEN 79 THE BOGEY OF SPACE 86 A ROAD TO ONESELF 93 THE EDITOR 99 ON AN OLD BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY 106 ON NOT MEETING AUTHORS 112 THE ETERNAL CHEAP JACK 120 HOLIDAY NOTES FROM THE COAST OF BOHEMIA 126 ON A MOUTH-ORGAN 133