MRS ALBERT GRUNDY—OBSERVATIONS IN PHILISTIA
By Harold Frederic
CONTENTS
[ Presenting in Outline the Comfortable and Well-Regulated Paradox over which She Presides, and showing its Mental Elevation ]
[ Setting forth the Untoward Circumstances under which the Right Tale was Unfolded in the Wrong Company ]
[ Annotating Sundry Points of Contact found to exist between the Lady and Contemporary Art ]
[ Affording a Novel and Subdued Scientific Light, by which divers Venerable Problems may be Observed Afresh ]
[ Touching the Experimental Graft of a Utilitarian Spirit upon the Aesthetic Instinct in our Sisters ]
[ Relating to Various Phenomena attending the Progress of the Sex along Lines of the Greatest Resistance ]
[ Illustrating the operation of Vegetables and Feminine Duplicity upon the Concepts of Maternal Responsibility ]
[ Containing Thoughts upon the Great Unknown, to which are added Speculations upon her Hereafter ]
[ Glancing at some Modern Aspects of Master John Gutenberg’s ingenious but Over-rated Invention ]
[ Detailing certain Prudential Measures taken during the Panic incident to a Late Threatened Invasion ]
[ Dealing with the Deceptions of Nature, and the Freedom from, Illusion Inherent in the Unnatural ]
[ Suggesting Considerations possibly heretofore Overlooked by Commentators upon the Laws of Property ]
[ Narrating the Failure of a Loyal Attempt to Circumvent Adversity by means of Modern Appliances ]
[ Introducing Scenes from a Foreign Country, and also conveying Welcome Intelligence, together with some Instruction ]
[ Disclosing the Educational Influence exerted by the Essex Coast, and other Matters, including Reasons for Joy ]
[ Describing Impressions of a Momentous Interview, loosely gathered by One who, although present, was not quite In it ]