"Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent." (from Wikipedia)

Orpheus in Mayfair & Other Stories is an interesting collection of short sketches. What prompted the posting was that I recently ran across my old pbook copy when I was cleaning up.