1st edition. Essays include: On Chanticleer; Provence and "Mireille"; Puck of Pooks Hill; On Genius; Dinners and Diners; Dawn; On Taste; The Meaning of Patterns; On Pleasure; The Happy World; A Gentleman; Personality and Charm; True Friendship; Conscience and Mademoiselle Aisse; On Celebrity. Pp.213, toning to endpapers. Cream cloth spine with blue paper covered boards, dustwrapper is rubbed with small edge tears. Scarce. VG/G+.