Transcribed from the 1914 A. C. Fifield edition by DavidPrice,
CAMBRIDGE PIECES
By
Samuel Butler
Author of “Erewhon,”“The Way of All Flesh,” etc.
Edited by R. A. Streatfeild
London: A. C.Fifield
1914
CONTENTS
| PAGE |
On English Composition and Other Matters | |
Our Tour | |
Translation from an Unpublished Work of Herodotus | |
The shield of Achilles, with variations | |
Prospectus of the Great Split Society | |
Powers | |
A skit on examinations | |
An Eminent Person | |
Napoleon at St. Helena | |
The Two Deans. I. | |
The Two Deans. II. | |
The Battle of Alma Mater | |
On the Italian Priesthood | |
Samuel Butler and the Simeonites, by A. T. Bartholomew |
p. 205OnEnglish Composition and Other Matters
This essay is believed to be the firstcomposition by Samuel Butler that appeared in print. It was published in the first number of the Eagle, a magazine written and edited bymembers of St. John’s College, Cambridge, inthe Lent Term, 1858,