This volume was published in 1912. Contents: \— First and Last Love \— The Kaleidoscope of Life \— Also \— The Wind and the Whirlwind \— Some Proverbs.—Coincidences \— Absence of the Critical Faculty \— Faith and Fickleness. \— Perhaps \— An Hour-glass and a Sundial \— Death's Devotion \— In Dreamland \— Dodo Island \— Le Réduit \— Tamarin and Ile de la Passe \— Cilaos \— Disbelief in the Unseen \— The Kris Incarnadine \— Malay Sports \— An Unsolved Mystery ......................................................................................... Book Excerpt: The Wind and the Whirlwind - The great Southern Express which has rushed through the long darkness of a late winter's night is now swinging into the dawn of a Provencal day. As the light obtains full mastery the train rocks along the bank of the Rhone, and wakeful passengers in the warm carriages notice that the surface of the water is blown into jagged wisps without realising what it means. Only two people are really fussing, wrap- ping up their rugs and getting ready to leave, when the long ugly train of " sleepers " and grey-lined carriages pulls up at a station outside the walls of a mediaeval town. By the time this couple have collected their luggage the train has gone and, as they come out of the desolate station they are met by a bitter mistral, and recognise the full significance of those angry wind-tracks on the waters of the Rhone. They don't yet understand the mistral, but they do realise that this cutting icy blast was hardly what they expected to find here. It does not greatly matter. After a journey of nearly twenty hours on wheel and keel, one pines for comforts not to be found in railway-stations or the streets of even the most picturesque and interesting of ancient cities. How- ever chilly the weather conditions, there are warmth and comfort and rest in a homely inn, and the strangers want nothing more, for they are not dependent on out- side influences for their happiness.