Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 1
On the Negative Spirit 10
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the World Small 19
Mr. Bernard Shaw 29
Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants 38
Christmas and the AEsthetes 53
Omar and the Sacred Vine 60
The Mildness of the Yellow Press 67
The Moods of Mr. George Moore 77
On Sandals and Simplicity 81
Science and the Savages 86
Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson 93
Celts and Celtophiles 105
On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family 110
On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set 121
On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity 134
On the Wit of Whistler 146
The Fallacy of the Young Nation 154
Slum Novelists and the Slums 167
Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 178