Without Prejudice

GOSSIPS AND FANTASIES

I. A VISION OF THE BURDEN OF MAN: WHICH MAY SERVE TO INTRODUCE THE INTRODUCTION

II. TUNING UP

III. ART IN ENGLAND

IV. BOHEMIA AND VERLAINE

V. THE INDESTRUCTIBLES

VI. CONCERNING GENERAL ELECTIONS

VII. THE REALISTIC NOVEL

VIII. IN DEFENCE OF GAMBLING

IX. TRULY RURAL

X. OPINIONS OF THE YOUNG FOGEY

XI. CRITICS AND PEOPLE

XII. TABLE-TALK

XIII. THE ABOLITION OF MONEY

XIV. MODERN MYTH-MAKING

XV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF TOPSY-TURVYDOM

XVI. GHOST-STORIES

XVII. A THEORY OF TABLE-TURNING

XVIII. SOCIETIES TO FOUND

XIX. INDECENCY ON THE ENGLISH STAGE

XX. LOVE IN LIFE AND LITERATURE

XXI. DEATH AND MARRIAGE

XXII. THE CHOICE OF PARENTS

XXIII. PATER AND PROSE

XXIV. THE INFLUENCE OF NAMES

XXV. AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS

XXVI. THE PENALTIES OF FAME

XXVII. ON FINISHING A BOOK

II

HERE, THERE, AND SOMEWHERE ELSE: Philosophic Excursions

I. ABERDEEN

II. ANTWERP

III. BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE

IV. BUDAPEST

V. CHICAGO

VI. EDINBURGH

VII. FIESOLE AND FLORENCE

VIII. GLASGOW

IX. HASLEMERE

X. PARIS

XL SLAPTON SANDS

XII. VENICE

XIII. VENTNOR

XIV. SOMEWHERE ELSE

III

AFTERTHOUGHTS: A Bundle of Brevities

MOONSHINE

CAPITAL

CREDIT

THE SMALL BOY

A DAY IN TOWN

THE PROFESSION OF CHARITY

THE PRIVILEGES OF POVERTY

SALVATION FOR THE SERAPHIM

TRUTH--LOCAL AND TEMPORAL

THE CREED OF DESPAIR

SOCIAL BUGBEARS

MARTYRS

THE LONDON SEASON

THE ACADEMY

PORTRAITS OF GENTLEMEN

PHOTOGRAPHY AND REALISM

THE GREAT UNHUNG

THE ABOLITION OF CATALOGUES

THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

LAY CONFESSORS

Q. E. D. NOVELS

THE MOUSE WHO DIED

THEOLOGIC NOVELS

MUDIE MEASURE

THE PROP OF LETTERS

THE LATTER-DAY POET

AN ATTACK OF ALLITERATION

THE HUMOROUS

THE DISCOUNT FARCE

THE FRANCHISE FARCE

THE MODERN WAR FARCE

FIREWORKS

TIME'S FORELOCK

DIARIES

"LOOKING BACKWARD"

LONG LIVES

VIVE LA MORT!

MEN AND BOOKMEN

JAMES I. ON TOBACCO

A COUNTERBLAST TO JAMES I.

VALEDICTORY