INDEX.
Reading edition
A
Artistic effect dependent on indistinctness (!); 241
B
Barometer, sideways motion of; 13
Bath, portable, for Tourists; 25
Books or minds. Which contain most Science? 21
Boots for horizontal weather; 14
Brain, inverted position of; 243
Bread-sauce. What appropriate for? 58
C
Carrying one’s-self. Why not fatiguing? 169
Child’s view of purpose of Life; 330
Choristers’ life, danger of; 274
Church-going, principle of; 272
Conceited people always depreciate others; 237
Content, opportunity for cultivating; 152
Conversation, how to indicate parentheses in; 251
” ” ” questions in; 251
‘Convenient’ and ‘Inconvenient,’ different meanings; 140
Critic, conceited, always depreciates; 237
” how to gain reputation of; 238
Crocodiles, logic of; 230
D
Darwinism reversed; 64
Day, shortness of, and length of, compared; 159
” true length of; 159
Debt, how to avoid payment of; 131
Dreaminess, certain cure for; 136
397
E
Electricity, influence of, on Literature; 64
Enjoyment of life, secret of; 335
Events in reversed order; 350
Extreme sobriety, inconvenience of; 140
Eye, images inverted by; 242
F
Fairies, how to improve character of; 190
” ” recognise presence of; 191
Falling house, life in a; 100
Final Causes, problem in; 297
Free-will and nerve-force; 390
Frog, young, how to amuse; 364
G
Gardener’s Song;
Elephant; 65.
Buffalo; 78.
Rattlesnake; 83.
Banker’s Clerk; 90.
Kangaroo; 106.
Coach-and-Four; 116.
Albatross; 164.
Garden-Door; 168
Ghosts, treatment of, by Shakespeare; 60
” ” in Railway-Literature; 58
” weltering, appropriate fluid for; 58
Graduated races of men; 299
H
Happiness, excessive, how to moderate; 159
Honesty, Dr. Watts’ argument for; 235
Horizontal rain, boots for; 14
House falling through Space, life in a; 100
Hymns appealing to selfishness; 276
I
‘Inconvenient’ and ‘Convenient’, different meanings; 140
Indistinctness necessary for artistic effect (!); 241
Inversion of Brain; 243
” images on Retina; 242
398
L
Ladies, logic of; 235
Least Common Multiple, rule of, applied to Literature; 22
Life, how to enjoy; 335
” in falling house; 100
” in reversed order; 350
” purpose of, as viewed by Child; 330
” regarded as a Drama; 333
Literature, development of, due to Steam; 64
” ” ” Electricity; 64
” for Railway; 58
” treated by Rule of Least Common Multiple; 22
Little man, privilege of being a; 299
Liturgy, chanted, effect of; 273
Logic of Crocodiles; 230
” Dr. Watts; 235
” ladies; 235
” requisites for complete argument in; 259
Loving or being loved. Which is best? 77
M
Men, graduated races of; 299
” little, privileges of; 299
Minds or books. Which contain most Science? 21
Money, effect of doubling value of; 312
Music, how to get the largest amount of; 338
N
Nerve-force and free-will; 390
Nerves, curiously slow action of; 158
Novel-reading, how to enjoy; 336
O
Onus probandi misplaced by Crocodiles; 230
” ” Dr. Watts; 235
” ” ladies; 235
Order of events reversed; 250
399
P
Pain, how to minimise; 337
Paley’s definition of Virtue; 274
Parentheses in conversation, how to indicate; 251
‘Phlizz’, a visionary flower; 282
” ” fruit; 75
” ” nurse-maid; 283
Pictures, how to criticize; 238
Pleasure, how to maximise; 335
Plunge-bath, portable; 25
Poor people, simple method for enriching; 312
Portable bath for tourists; 25
Poverty, the blessings of; 152
Prayer for temporal blessings, effect of; 391
Preachers, exceptional privileges of; 277
” appealing to selfishness; 276
Proof, burden of, misplaced by Crocodiles; 230
” ” ” Dr. Watts; 235
” ” ” ladies; 235
Q
Questions in conversation, how to indicate; 251
R
Railway-literature; 58
” scenes regarded as dramatic; 333
Rain, horizontal, boots for; 14
Retina, images inverted on; 242
Reversed order of events; 350
S
Scenery, enjoyment of, by little men; 299
Science. Do books, or minds, contain most? 21
Selfishness appealed to in hymns; 276
” ” religious teaching; 275
” ” sermons; 276
Sermons appealing to selfishness; 276
400
Shakespeare, passages treated of:—
‘All the world’s a stage’; 335
‘Aye, every inch a king!’; 373
‘Is this a dagger that I see before me?’; 371
‘Rest, rest, perturbed Spirit!’; 60
‘To be, or not to be’; 370
Shakespeare’s treatment of ghosts; 60
Short man, privilege of being a; 299
Sillygism, requisites for a; 259
Sobriety, extreme, inconvenience of; 140
Spencer, Herbert, difficulties in; 258
Sport, false and true; 318
Steam, influence of, on Literature; 64
Sunday, as spent by children of last generation; 387
” observance of; 385
T
Time, how to put back; 314, 347
” ” reverse; 350
Tourists’ portable bath; 25
V
Virtue, Paley’s definition of; 274
W
Watts, Dr., weak logic of; 235
Weather, horizontal, boots for; 14
Weight, relative, conceivably non-existent; 100
Weltering, appropriate fluids for; 58
401