Here and Otherwhere and Silver Nutmegs Author:Vernon Knowles 1926. This volume contains two works by Vernon Knowles. "Here and Otherwhere" is a collection of fantasy stories including: Shop in the Off Street, where Mr. Beckett escapes his humdrum life to enter Fairyland; The Birds, story of why it is not nice to fool Mother Nature; Painter of Trees; Land of Ideas; Road to Tolbrisa; Land of No More Tears; ... more »Triumph of the Tree; A Conversation; and Set of Chinese Boxes. "Silver Nutmegs" is another collection of short stories entitled: The Ladder, the tale of a magical Oriental ladder and how it effects a small English village; River and the Road; Chimpanzee, or how the animal kingdom tried to civilize man; Gong of Transportation; Great Onion; City of All Cities; Door with the Three Padlocks.« less