He could not sketch in outline his theoretic attitude towards
window-blinds, even in the form of a summary. "The Window-Blind--
Its Analogy to the Curtain and Veil--Is Modesty Natural?
--Worship of and Avoidance of the Sun, etc., etc." None of us
think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't
let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us
exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run
across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be
ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or
a coloured cloud. I have attempted some such thing in what
follows; but anyone else may do it better, if anyone else will
only try.


Contents Chapter
I Tremendous Trifles
II A Piece of Chalk
III The Secret of a Train
IV The Perfect Game
V The Extraordinary Cabman
VI An Accident
VII The Advantages of Having One Leg
VIII The End of the World
IX In the Place de la Bastille
X On Lying in Bed
XI The Twelve Men
XII The Wind and the Trees
XIII The Dickensian
XIV In Topsy-Turvy Land
XV What I Found in My Pocket