Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. ... A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898. The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. (Wikipedia.org)CONTENTSOn the Art of Making Up One's Mind On the Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants On the Exceptional Merit attaching to the Things We Meant To Do On the Preparation and Employment of Love Philtres On the Delights and Benefits of Slavery On the Care and Management of Women On the Minding of Other People's Business On the Time Wasted in Looking Before One Leaps On the Nobility of Ourselves On the Motherliness of Man On the Inadvisability of Following Advice On the Playing of Marches at the Funerals Of Marionettes