CONTENTS.

1.[ What is Respectability?]
2.[ The Pathology of the Disease.]
3.[ Ladies and Gentlemen.]
4.[ Specific Symptoms of the Malady in Women.]
5.[ Respectability and Morals.]
6.[ Cultured Gentility.]
7.[ Plutocracy.]
8.[ Villadom.]
9.[ The Tyranny of Respectability]
10.[ Respectable Civilisation and After.]
11.[ Conclusion.]

"It was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up."

II. Henry VI. iv. II.

"Opinion's but a fool that makes us scan,
The outward habit by the inward man."

Pericles II. II.


CHAPTER I.