DETAILED CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
MisnomersCHAPTER II
The Squire and his NieceCHAPTER III
The Duke's FollyCHAPTER IV
The Forest—A Soliloquy on HairCHAPTER V.
The Seven SistersCHAPTER VI
The Rustic LoverCHAPTER VII
The Vicar and his Wife—Families of Love:—
The NewspaperCHAPTER VIII
Pantopragmatics
CHAPTER IX
Saint CatharineCHAPTER X
The ThunderstormCHAPTER XI
Electrical Science—The Death of PhilemonCHAPTER XII
The Forest Dell—The Power of Love—The Lottery
of MarriageCHAPTER XIII
Lord Curryfin—Siberian Dinners—Social MonotonyCHAPTER XIV
Music and Painting—Jack of DoverCHAPTER XV
Expression in Music—The Dappled Palfrey—Love
and Age—Competitive ExaminationCHAPTER XVI
Miss Niphet—The Theatre—The Lake—Divided Attraction
—Infallible SafetyCHAPTER XVII
Horse-Taming—Love in Dilemma—Injunctions—Sonorous VasesCHAPTER XVIII
Lectures—The Power of Public Opinion—A New
Order of ChivalryCHAPTER XIX
A Symposium—Transatlantic Tendencies
—After-Dinner Lectures—EducationCHAPTER XX
Algernon and Morgana—Opportunity and Repentance
—The Forest in WinterCHAPTER XXI
Skating—Pas de deux on the Ice—Congeniality
—Flints among BonesCHAPTER XXII
The Seven against Thebes—A Soliloquy on ChristmasCHAPTER XXIII
The two Quadrilles—Pope's Ombre—Poetical Truth to
Nature—CleopatraCHAPTER XXIV
Progress of Sympathy—Love's Injunctions—Orlando
InnamoratoCHAPTER XXV
Harry and DorothyCHAPTER XXVI
Doubts and QuestionsCHAPTER XXVII
Love in MemoryCHAPTER XXVIII
Aristophanes in LondonCHAPTER XXIX
The Bald Venus—Inez de Castro—The Unity of LoveCHAPTER XXX
A Captive Knight—Richard and AliceCHAPTER XXXI
A Twelfth-Night Ball—Pantopragmatic Cookery
—Modern Vandalism—A Bowl of PunchCHAPTER XXXII
Hopes and Fears—Compensations in Life—Athenian
Comedy—Madeira and Music—ConfidencesCHAPTER XXXIII
The Conquest of ThebesCHAPTER XXXIV
Christmas Tales—Classical Tales of Wonder—The
Host's Ghost—A Tale of a Shadow—A Tale of
a Bogle—The Legend of St. LauraRejected Suitors—Conclusion