Book has been compiled with writings from Chesterton's "Charles Dickens", "All Things Considered", "Tremendous Trifles", "Alarms and Discursions", "The Ballad of the White Horse", "A Miscellany of Men", "The Flying Inn", "Wine, Water and Song", "The Uses of Diversity", and "Fancies versus Fads", all published by Methuen. The selection was made by Mr E. V. Lucas.