Includes reference to the following: Cocksure; The street; St. Urbain's horseman; The incomparable Atuk; The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Son of a smaller hero; Some grist for Mervyn's mill; James Bond unmasked and other essays; Hunting tigers under glass; Maple leaf power time; Jacob Two-Two meets the hooded fang; A sense of the ridiculous; shovelling trouble; Starting out in the thirties; Games (some) people play.