INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
The Romance of Rhyme
Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst
The Meaning of Mock Turkey
Shakespeare and the Legal Lady
On Being an Old Bean
The Fear of the Film
Wings and the Housemaid
The Slavery of Free Verse
Prohibition and the Press
The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett
A Defence of Dramatic Unities
The Boredom of Butterflies
The Terror of a Toy
False Theory and the Theatre
The Secret Society of Mankind
The Sentimentalism of Divorce
Street Cries and Stretching the Law
The Revolt of the Spoilt Child
The Innocence of the Criminal
The Prudery of the Feminists
How Mad Laws are Made
The Pagoda of Progress
The Myth of the "Mayflower"
Much Too Modern History
The Evolution of Slaves
Is Darwin Dead?
Turning Inside Out
Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder
A Note on Old Nonsense
Milton and Merry England
FANCIES VERSUS FADS
BY G. K. CHESTERTON METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON First Published in 1923 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
