Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for (some from a series, "A Great Novel Rewritten as a Short Story"): "The importance of knowing how to speak English" on WSC's experiences learning Latin and Greek at school, and at Harrow [Middlesex] where he learnt only English; "The amazing George Bernard Shaw" on Shaw's career and WSC's relationship with him; "'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by [Harriet] Beecher Stowe"; "'The Count of Monte Cristo' by [Alexander] Dumas"; "'Ben Hur' by Lewis Wallace"; "'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy"; "'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens".