A Collection of Tales
A Collection of Tales is an article published in The Tatler on 22 january 1919.
A Collection of Tales
Perhaps the most interesting chapter in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection of stories, "Danger and Other Stories" (Murray), is the first one, which gives part title to the book. It was written eighteen months before the declaration of war, and contains an extraordinarily accurate prophecy of the result of an unrestricted use of the submarine. That nobody believed in it when it was written only goes once more to prove that the prophet — especially if he be a prophet of the disagreeable and uncomfortable — is merely looked upon as a tiresome scaremonger in his own country. Now, alas! everyone has discovered for himself that, under the guise of an exciting story, Sir Arthur wrote a most amazing prophecy.
