It hardly needs stressed that Barrie's flippant novella offers one solution to the
frustrated ... He was also a thosewith whom he making friends. ... who, while
negotiating their way around the world ofthe London publishing scene,also
hadakeen ...

... and learns how to make friends with a hippogriff (you stare unblinking into its
fierce orange eye, ... J. M. Barrie, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Lewis
Carroll, ... And there is the nice constant scare of the surrounding sea making
your ... and the venerable class system, which enacts alternative worlds side by
side; and, ...

and how their own, old friendship was resumed; enthusiastically, on both sides,
for the rest of Whibley's life. ... But perhaps he was, and so was Barrie, for one
doesn't often make friends like this at fiftyeight. ... A ring of revellers formed round
them, again and again, holding hands, and once only ... The world was sane
again.