Hard copy also owned. Appears that same press was used with both but the cover and size of the pages are different. This copy has an illustration on the cover while the other does not. All the other aspects are the same, including page numbers.

Contemporary inscription by "W. [Second initial illegible] Raymond 77 Peel Street Brantford, Ontario March 24 1916"

Reilly 51. This book not in Reilly. Only one other copy of worldcat

Edward Harold Begbie (1871–1929), also known as Harold Begbie, was an English author and journalist who published nearly 50 books and poems and contributed to periodicals. Besides studies of the Christian religion, Begbie wrote numerous other books, including political satire, comedy, fiction, science fiction, plays and poetry. At the outbreak of World War I Begbie wrote a number of recruiting poems and visited America on behalf of his paper. Some of the articles he wrote there were used as propaganda.

Before the First World War Begbie was an outspoken Liberal social reformist, but he moved rapidly to the right in the post-war period. The "Gentleman with a Duster" books denounce sexually suggestive literature (such as the early plays of Noel Coward), lament the precarious economic state of the middle classes and the prospective disintegration of the British Empire, and call for a strong hand against left-wing subversives even if this means restricting some traditional British liberties.