Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

Sketches from Jerome's middle register: a man who reforms, a woman who does not, a clerk, an actress, a dog. He was orphaned at fifteen and worked as a railway clerk, a schoolmaster and a jobbing actor before Three Men in a Boat — which he wrote as a serious travel guide and could not keep the jokes out of. Half these pieces are comic and half are not, and he does not signal which.