music-halls; to buy out-of-date Encyclopædias Britannicas; to subscribe to mumps hospitals, testimonials to retiring pugilists, monuments to philanthropists, missions to ploughmen, cats' homes, brass bands, Societies for the Discouragement of Fiction Reading; to take tickets for lotteries in Denmark, Austria, Rumania, Mesopotamia, Spitzbergen; to finance actors in Shakespearean Seasons; to contribute articles for nothing to publishers' advertisement-sheets; to breakfast in Downing Street; to allow books to be dedicated to him and then to buy half a dozen copies of them; to accept (and write testimonials to the virtues of) fountain pens, ever-sharp pencils, loose-leaf notebooks, safety razors, strops, shaving-soaps, corn-cures, boot-polishes, corrugated-iron summer-houses, photographic cameras, player-pianos, ice-cream freezers, bicycles, cork jackets,
