CONTENTS

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[I.]Suspicion1
[II.]On Good Resolutions 9
[III.]The Sin of Dancing 17
[IV.]Thoughts at a Tango Tea 25
[V.]The Humours of Murder 34
[VI.]The Decline and Fall of Hell 43
[VII.]On Cheerful Readers 51
[VIII.]St G. B. S. and the Bishop 59
[IX.]Stupidity 68
[X.]Waste 77
[XI.]On Christmas 85
[XII.]On Demagogues 94
[XIII.]On Coincidences 102
[XIV.]On Indignation 111
[XV.]The Heart of Mr Galsworthy 120
[XVI.]Spring Fashions 129
[XVII.]On Black Cats 137
[XVIII.]On Being Shocked 145
[XIX.]Confessions 154
[XX.]The Terrors of Politics 162
[XXI.]On Disasters 170
[XXII.]The Rights of Murder 180
[XXIII.]The Humour of Hoaxes 188
[XXIV.]Anatole France 197
[XXV.]The Sea 205
[XXVI.]The Futurists 215
[XXVII.]A Defence of Critics 224
[XXVIII.]On the Beauty of Statistics 232

These essays have appeared from week to week in The New Statesman, to the Editor and Proprietors of which I make grateful acknowledgment.

R. L.

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