Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book
Lost Hearts
The Mezzotint
The Ash-tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
If anyone is curious about my local settings, let it be recorded that
St Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg are real places: that in “Oh,
Whistle, and I’ll Come to You” I had Felixstowe in mind. As for the
fragments of ostensible erudition which are scattered about my pages,
hardly anything in them is not pure invention; there never was,
naturally, any such book as that which I quote in “The Treasure of
Abbot Thomas”. “Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book” was written in 1894 and
printed soon after in the _National Review_, “Lost Hearts” appeared in
the _Pall Mall Magazine_; of the next five stories, most of which were
read to friends at Christmas-time at King’s College, Cambridge, I only
recollect that I wrote “Number 13” in 1899, while “The Treasure of
Abbot Thomas” was composed in the summer of 1904.