This enjoyable anthology presents such gems as The
Vicar of Bray, Greensleeves, The British Grenadiers, She was Poor but She was Honest, The Foggy Foggy Dew and The Man on the Flying Trapeze alongside lesser-known works such as The Alto's Lament and The Atheist's
The range of topics covered is enormous: books, revenge, sport, Old George's Almanac, freedom and happiness, radio programmes, murder, the colonial empire, the
Vicar of Bray (in legend, not the current incumbent), 'Confessions of a Book Reviewer'--are but some of the essays included here.