WORKS BY ARNOLD BENNETT NOVELS A Man from the North Anna of the Five Towns Leonora A Great Man Sacred and Profane Love Whom God hath Joined Buried Alive The Old Wives’ Tale The Glimpse Helen with the High Hand Clayhanger The Card Hilda Lessways The Regent The Price of Love These Twain The Lion’s Share The Pretty Lady The Roll-Call FANTASIAS The Grand Babylon Hotel The Gates of Wrath Teresa of Watling Street The Loot of Cities Hugo The Ghost The City of Pleasure SHORT STORIES Tales of the Five Towns The Grim Smile of the Five Towns The Matador of the Five Towns BELLES-LETTRES How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day The Human Machine Mental Efficiency Literary Taste Friendship and Happiness Married Life Those United States Paris Nights Books and Persons DRAMA Polite Farces Cupid and Common Sense What the Public Wants The Honeymoon The Great Adventure The Title SELF AND SELF-MANAGEMENT SELF AND SELF-MANAGEMENT ESSAYS ABOUT EXISTING BY ARNOLD BENNETT HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXVIII CONTENTS PAGE RUNNING AWAY FROM LIFE 3 SOME AXIOMS ABOUT WAR-WORK 25 THE DIARY HABIT 45 A DANGEROUS LECTURE TO A YOUNG WOMAN 65 THE COMPLETE FUSSER 85 THE MEANING OF FROCKS 103 RUNNING AWAY FROM LIFE RUNNING AWAY FROM LIFE I I WILL take the extreme case of the social butterfly, because it has the great advantage of simplicity. This favourite variety of the lepidopteral insects is always spoken of as female. But as the variety persists from generation to generation obviously it cannot be of one sex only. And, as a fact, there are indubitably male social butterflies, though the differences between the male and the female may be slight. I shall, however, confine myself to the case of the female social butterfly--again for the sake of simplicity.