Title; Contents; Note; Orpheus in Mayfair; The Cricket Match an Incident at a Private School; The Shadow of a Midnight a Ghost Story; Jean Francois; The Flute of Chang Liang; What is Truth? -- A Luncheon-Party; Fete Galante; The Garland; The Spider's Web; Edward II. at Berkeley Castle by an Eye-Witness (with Apologies to Mr. H. Belloc); The Island; The Man Who Gave Good Advice; Russalka; The Old Woman; Dr. Faust's Last Day; The Flute-Player's Story; A Chinaman on Oxford; Venus; The Fire; The Conqueror; The Ikon; The Thief; The Star; Chun Wa; Endnotes.
Summary
British literary jack-of-all-trades Maurice Baring first rose to prominence as a writer of travelogues, which he later parlayed into a career as an intrepid war correspondent. When he shifted his focus to fiction, his prose retained the local color and rich detail that characterized his earlier nonfiction work. The tales collected in Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches represent a broad cross-section of Baring's oeuvre.
