Chapters (206)
- FANCIES VERSUS FADS
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- FANCIES VERSUS FADS
- The Romance of Rhyme
- Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst
- The Meaning of Mock Turkey
- Shakespeare and the Legal Lady
- On Being an Old Bean
- The Fear of the Film
- Wings and the Housemaid
- The Slavery of Free Verse
- Prohibition and the Press
- The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett
- A Defence of Dramatic Unities
- The Boredom of Butterflies
- The Terror of a Toy
- False Theory and the Theatre
- The Secret Society of Mankind
- The Sentimentalism of Divorce
- Street Cries and Stretching the Law
- The Revolt of the Spoilt Child
- The Innocence of the Criminal
- The Prudery of the Feminists
- How Mad Laws are Made
- The Pagoda of Progress
- The Myth of the “Mayflower”
- Much Too Modern History
- The Evolution of Slaves
- Is Darwin Dead?
- Turning Inside Out
- Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder
- A Note on Old Nonsense
- Milton and Merry England
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