Books in general
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1. BOOKS OF ESSAYS2. Preface3. Who’s Who4. Political Songs5. An Oriental on Albert the Good6. Epigrams7. An Eminent Baconian8. The Beauties of Badness9. More Badness10. A Mystery Solved11. Carrying the Alliance too far12. May 191413. May 1914: The Leipzig Exhibition14. The Mantle of Sir Edwin15. “The Cattle of the Boyne”16. August 191417. Mrs. Barclay sees it through18. A Topic of Standing Interest19. Was Cromwell an Alligator?20. The Depressed Philanthropist21. A Polyphloisboisterous Critic22. “Another Century, and then ...”23. Herrick24. The Muse in Liquor25. £5 Misspent26. Shakespeare’s Women and Mr. George Moore27. Moving a Library28. Table-Talk and Jest Books29. Stephen Phillips30. Gray and Horace Walpole31. A Horrible Bookseller32. The Troubles of a Catholic33. The Bible as Raw Material34. How to avoid Bad English35. Woodland Creatures36. Other People’s Books37. Peacock38. Wordsworth’s Personal Dullness39. Henry James’s Obscurity40. The “Ring” in the Bookselling Trade41. Music-Hall Songs42. More Music-Hall Songs43. Utopias44. Charles II in English Verse45. The Most Durable Books46. The Worst Style in the World47. The Reconstruction of Orthography48. Mr. James Joyce49. Tennessee50. Sir William Watson and Mr. Lloyd George51. Stranded52. Mr. Ralph Hodgson53. Double Misprints54. The History of Earl Pumbles55. On Destroying Books