Trivia: 3 (The Roger Mifflin Collection)

If your mind needs phosphorus try Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith. - Roger Mifflin proprietor of The Haunted BookshopIt would be extravagant to claim that Pearsall Smiths Trivia the remarkable little book from which these miniature essays are extracted is well known: it is too daintily fragile and absurd and sophisticated to appeal to a very large public. But it has a cohort of its own devotees and fanatics and since its publication in 1917 it has become a sort of password in a secret brotherhood wrote Christopher Morley in his book Modern Essays about this hard-to-categorize collection of aphorisms that through its title introduced a word into the English language. Smiths aphorisms are anything but trivial; alternately whimsical and insightful and heartbreaking they are popcorn-sized glimpses into the human condition.The third in a new collection of classic books inspired by Roger Mifflin owner of Morleys Haunted Bookshop Trivia is an early 20th century gem.