Hilaire Belloc: On Nothing & Kindred Subjects (1907)

Done in order to beguile Beartard’s solitary hours in his hermitage.
(I believe that he likes Belloc; and there is an essay about a hermit.)


A collection of short pieces:

Contents

On The Pleasure Of Taking Up One’s Pen
On Getting Respected In Inns And Hotels
On Ignorance
On Advertisement
On A House
On The Illness Of My Muse
On A Dog And A Man Also
On Tea
On Them
On Railways And Things
On Conversations In Trains
On The Return Of The Dead
On The Approach Of An Awful Doom
On A Rich Man Who Suffered
On A Child Who Died
On A Lost Manuscript
On A Man Who Was Protected By Another Man
On National Debts
On Lords
On Jingoes: In The Shape Of A Warning
On A Winged Horse And The Exile Who Rode Him
On A Man And His Burden
On A Fisherman And The Quest Of Peace
On A Hermit Whom I Knew
On An Unknown Country
On A Faëry Castle
On A Southern Harbour
On A Young Man And An Older Man
On The Departure Of A Guest
On Death
On Coming To An End

bless ;)