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 ]