Acknowledgement
"The Background " originally appeared in the LEINSTERS' MAGAZINE;
"The Stampeding of Lady Bastable " in the DAILY MAIL; "Mrs.
Packletide's Tiger," "The Chaplet," "The Peace Offering," "
Filboid Studge " and "Ministers of Grace " (in an abbreviated
form) in the BYSTANDER; and the remainder of the stories (with the
exception of "The Music on the Hill," "The Story of St.
Vespaluus," "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope," "The Remoulding of
Groby Lington," and "The Way to the Dairy," which have never
previously been published) in the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE. To the
Editors of these papers I am indebted for courteous permission to
reprint them.