Table of Contents

1. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

2. On the Negative Spirit

3. On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small

4. Mr. Bernard Shaw

5. Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants

6. Christmas and the Esthetes

7. Omar and the Sacred Vine

8. The Mildness of the Yellow Press

9. The Moods of Mr. George Moore

10. On Sandals and Simplicity

11. Science and the Savages

12. Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson

13. Celts and Celtophiles

14. On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family

15. On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set

16. On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity

17. On the Wit of Whistler

18. The Fallacy of the Young Nation

19. Slum Novelists and the Slums

20. Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy