TRIVIA


By
Logan Pearsall Smith

1917




_Bibliographical Note_


Some of these pieces were privately printed at the Chiswick
Press in 1902. Others have appeared in the "New Statesman" and
"The New Republic," and are here reprinted with the Editors'
permission.




_Preface_


"You must beware of thinking too much about Style," said my
kindly adviser, "or you will become like those fastidious people
who polish and polish until there is nothing left."

"Then there really are such people?" I asked, lost in the thought