This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher's stone, written in Baring-Gould's own style.
William Makepeace Thackeray, E. F. Benson, A. C. Benson, Amy Levy, Barry Pain, F. Marion Crawford, Hugh Walpole, M. R. James, Netta Syrett & Sabine Baring-Gould
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Bret Harte, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Himslef, Sabine Baring-Gould & William Hunt