| PAGE |
| On Seriousness | 1 |
| Lamp-Posts | 7 |
| The Spirits | 13 |
| Tennyson | 18 |
| The Domesticity of Detectives | 24 |
| George Meredith | 30 |
| The Irishman | 34 |
| Ireland and the Domestic Drama | 39 |
| The Japanese | 44 |
| Christian Science | 49 |
| The Lawlessness of Lawyers | 54 |
| Our Latin Relations | 61 |
| On Pigs as Pets | 66 |
| The Romance of Rostand | 71 |
| Wishes | 75 |
| The Futurists | 80 |
| The Evolution of Emma | 85 |
| The Pseudo-Scientific Books | 91 |
| The Humour of King Herod | 96 |
| The Silver Goblets | 101 |
| The Duty of the Historian | 106 |
| Questions of Divorce | 112 |
| Mormonism | 121 |
| Pageants and Dress | 126 |
| On Stage Costume | 132 |
| The Yule Log and the Democrat | 138 |
| More Thoughts on Christmas | 144 |
| Dickens again | 149 |
| Taffy | 154 |
| “Ego et Shavius Meus” | 159 |
| The Plan for a New Universe | 164 |
| George Wyndham | 171 |
| Four Stupidities | 177 |
| On Historical Novels | 182 |
| On Monsters | 186 |
