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Title: The Casual Ward
academic and other oddments

Author: A. D. Godley

Release Date: December 16, 2009 [eBook #30690]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CASUAL WARD***

Transcribed from the 1912 Smith, Elder & Co. edition by David Price,
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THE
CASUAL WARD

ACADEMIC AND OTHER
ODDMENTS

* * * * *

BY
A. D. GODLEY

* * * * *

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO.
15 WATERLOO PLACE
1912
[_All rights reserved_]

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BECCLES

CONTENTS
PAGE
M. T. CICERONIS DE LEGE BODLEIANA ORATIO 1
THE EIGHTS IN FICTION 6
I. OLD STYLE 6
II. NEW OR KODAK STYLE (From the French) 10
THUCYDIDES ON THE INFLUENZA 13
HERODOTUS ON HORSEBACK 17
TAC. HIST., BK. VI 21
THE JOURNALISTIC TOUCH 24
I. THE TRUE TALE OF TROY 24
II. FORGOTTEN HISTORY 32
PHILOGEORGOS, OR CONCERNING BRIBERY 38
PHILELEUTHEROS; OR, CONCERNING THE PEOPLE'S WILL 43
THE TUTOR'S EXPEDIENT 49
THE END AND OBJECT-- 64
THE TORTURED TUTOR: A DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD