Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175).
Contents
Sentimental literature. -- How to write a detective story. -- Humor. -- Fiction as food. -- The soul in every legend. -- The Macbeths. -- The tragedy of King Lear. -- The everlasting nights. -- Aesop's fables. -- Both sides of the looking-glass. -- And so to bed. -- As large as life in Dickens. -- Disputes on Dickens. -- Charlotte Bronte as a romantic. -- Anti-religious thought in the Eighteenth Century. -- The camp and the cathedral. -- The religious aspect of Westminster Abbey. -- The religious aim of education. -- The philosophy of islands. -- On holidays. -- The peasant. -- The lost railway station. -- Bethlehem and the great cities. -- The sacredness of sites. -- Scipio and the children. -- The real issue. -- The comic constable. -- Capone's pal. -- On losing one's head. -- The spice of life. -- On fragments.
