According to the author's note, the stories are reprinted from Temple Bar, Belgravia, The East Anglia Holiday Annual, Judy's Annual, Dipose's Annual, The Editor's Box, and The Bolton Evening News. Contains the stories "A Moment of Madness," "Captain Norton's Diary," "Old Contrairy," "Sent to His Death!", "Lost in the Marshes," "Leopold-Ferdinand, Duc de Brabant," "The Invisible Tenants of Rushmere," "Amy's Lover," "Little White Souls," "Still Waters," "Chit-Chat from Andalusia," "The Secret of Economy," "Mother," "In the Heart of the Ardennes," "A Midsummer's Nightmare," and "The Ghost of Charlotte Cray."