The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1890
To
My Friend
Major-General A. W. Drayson
As a Slight Token
Of
My Admiration for His Great
And As Yet Unrecognized 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 Boy's Own Paper."
A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D.
Contents
- 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
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