A long and varied collection, this was my first taste of Trollipe who is better known for his novels and I think that would be the better place to start. The variety of this collection was wide with a number of travel stories set across Europe, the Caribbean and North America, New Zealand and the Middle East. Social norms and a common theme among the more humorous stories as is writing and publishing and marriage.

The hr most fascinating story to me was “The Two Generals” written in 1862 about the American civil war, I felt it had a white reconstructionist view which was fascinating coming from a British author before the war was even over.