ThreeGreat Essays ‘On Other People’s Jobs’, ‘On Seeing People Off’, and ‘On Forgetting’ authored by Alfred George (AG) Gardiner, Max Beerbohm, and Robert Lynd respectively, were widely included in the eleventh class textbooks at the Higher Secondary School Level, when I was a HSC student in 1961. I remember that these essays were featured in the ‘English Prose for Class XI Anthology’ which was part of our curriculum. Gardiner dealt on all these subjects in his own inimitable style in different contexts, including his own essay ‘On Other People’s Jobs’.

This anthology with the inclusion of these and other interesting essays in our curriculum, reflected the educational standards and literary preferences of our time, emphasizing the development of critical thinking and language proficiency a

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