CONTENTS.
| Essay | Page | |
| [I.] | On the Difficulty of Discovering Fixed Laws | [3] |
| [II.] | Independence | [12] |
| [III.] | Of Passionate Love | [33] |
| [IV.] | Companionship in Marriage | [44] |
| [V.] | Family Ties | [63] |
| [VI.] | Fathers and Sons | [78] |
| [VII.] | The Rights of the Guest | [99] |
| [VIII.] | The Death of Friendship | [110] |
| [IX.] | The Flux of Wealth | [119] |
| [X.] | Differences of Rank and Wealth | [130] |
| [XI.] | The Obstacle of Language | [148] |
| [XII.] | The Obstacle of Religion | [161] |
| [XIII.] | Priests and Women | [175] |
| [XIV.] | Why we are Apparently becoming Less Religious | [205] |
| [XV.] | How we are Really becoming Less Religious | [215] |
| [XVI.] | On an Unrecognized Form of Untruth | [232] |
| [XVII.] | On a Remarkable English Peculiarity | [239] |
| [XVIII.] | Of Genteel Ignorance | [253] |
| [XIX.] | Patriotic Ignorance | [264] |
| [XX.] | Confusions | [280] |
| [XXI.] | The Noble Bohemianism | [295] |
| [XXII.] | Of Courtesy in Epistolary Communication | [315] |
| [XXIII.] | Letters of Friendship | [336] |
| [XXIV.] | Letters of Business | [354] |
| [XXV.] | Anonymous Letters | [370] |
| [XXVI.] | Amusements | [383] |
| Index | [403] |