"This volume contains nearly the whole of the three small collections named 'Songs of Action,' 'Songs of the Road,' and 'The Guards came through.' To these are added a number of new pieces: 'The Farewell,' 'Now then, Smith!' 'To my Lady,' 'A Reminiscence of Cricket,' 'The Bugles of Canada,' 'Christmas in Trouble,' 'To Carlo,' 'To Ronald Ross,' 'Little Billy,' 'Take Heart,' 'Retrospect,' and 'Comrades.' There is also added a short poetical one-act play, 'The Journey.' Arthur Conan Doyle. March 1922" -- p.vii, Preface