Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Selection of essays on subjects as varied as marriage, illness, age and youth, idlers, English Admirals. The most painstaking, overlong essay is the opening title piece, which offers earnest advice to young folks as told by a grand old man all in his 30s; needless to say, the input he offers can hardly be coloured by the experience of age, as he gives it to people roughly one decade his juniors.