I recently added this post, A Most Successful Holiday.
The author, Alfred George Gardiner, was a columnist for the long-running evening newspaper the Star (which was later absorbed into the Daily Mail) during and after the Great War. Gardiner wrote about matters which appealed to ordinary people in a manner that was light, yet treated his readers with respect. This extract, from the start of a piece entitled “On Coming Home”, is just such an essay. He explores that paradox that a holiday can be too enjoyable: if its effect is to send us home still wanting to be away, it has not done its job.