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• Introduction
• Chapter I. The Romance of Rhyme
• Chapter II. Hamlet and the Psycho-analyst
• Chapter III. The Meaning of Mock Turkey
• Chapter IV. Shakespeare and the Legal Lady
• Chapter V. On Being an Old Bean
• Chapter VI. The Fear of the Film
• Chapter VII. Wings and the Housemaid
• Chapter VIII. The Slavery of Free Verse
• Chapter IX. Prohibition and the Press
• Chapter X. The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett
• Chapter XI. A Defence of Dramatic unities
• Chapter XII. The Boredom of Butterflies
• Chapter XIII. The Terror of a Toy
• Chapter XIV. False Theory and the Theatre
• Chapter XV. The Secret Society of Mankind
• Chapter XVI. The Sentimentalism of Divorce
• Chapter XVII. Street Cries and Stretching the Law
• Chapter XVIII. Why Reforms Go Wrong
• Chapter XIX. The Innocence of the Criminal
• Chapter XX. The Prudery of the Feminists
• Chapter XXI. How Mad Laws Are Made
• Chapter XXII. The Pagoda of Progress
• Chapter XXIII. The Myth of the "Mayflower"
• Chapter XXIV. Much Too Modern History
• Chapter XXV. The Evolution of Slaves
• Chapter XXVI. Is Darwin Dead?
• Chapter XXVII. Turning Inside Out
• Chapter XXVIII. Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder
• Chapter XXIX. A Note on Old Nonsense
• Chapter XXX. Milton and Merry England

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