CONTENTS
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A Vital Point of Education 1
The Responsibility of the Press 14
“Pagan London” 29
A Question of Faith 38
Unchristian Clerics 68
The Social Blight 79
The Death of Hospitality 89
The Vulgarity of Wealth 98
American Women in England 117
The American Bounder 128
Coward Adam 143
Accursëd Eve 152
“Imaginary” Love 162
The Advance of Woman 169
The Palm of Beauty 185
The Madness of Clothes 195
The Decay of Home Life in England 207
Society and Sunday 233
The “Strong” Book of the Ishbosheth 245
The Making of Little Poets 252
The Prayer of the Small Country M.P. 262
The Thanksgiving of the Small Country M.P.’s Wife 267
The Vanishing Gift 273
The Power of the Pen 292
The Glory of Work 310
The Happy Life 326
The Soul of the Nation 340