Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: "These pieces of moral prose have been written, dear Reader, by a large Carnivorous Mammal, belonging to that suborder of the Animal Kingdom which includes also the Orang-outang, the tusked Gorilla, the Baboon with his bright blue and scarlet bottom, and the long-eared Chimpanzee."

All Trivia gathers brief and often humorous observations on life, happiness, religion, art, science, music, beauty, and modern life.

Beautifully and elegantly written by a really witty and consummate craftsman of the written word. Full of reminiscences aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, boyhood in Philadelphia, a first trip abroad, Haverford College, Harvard, youthful associates, a year in Germany, a few months at home in the family business, then the determination to live abroad and write. Manuscript hunting, Oxford, the Paris of Whistler, Henry James, ten years in Sussex. Sage and entertaining literary chit-chat, delightfully done...