TO
MY FRIEND
MAJOR-GENERAL A. W. DRAYSON
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN
OF
MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GREAT
AND AS YET UNRECOGNISED SERVICES TO ASTRONOMY
This little Volume
IS
DEDICATED

PREFACE

For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of “Cornhill,” “Temple Bar,” “Belgravia,” “London Society,” “Cassell’s,” and “The Boys’ Own Paper.”

A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D.    

• The Captain of the Pole-Star
• J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement
• The Great Keinplatz Experiment
• The Man from Archangel
• That Little Square Box
• John Huxford’s Hiatus
• Cyprian Overbeck Wells - A Literary Mosaic
• John Barrington Cowles
• Elias B. Hopkins, the Parson of Jackman’s Gulch
• The Ring of Thoth