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In Defence Of A New Edition
INTRODUCTION A DEFENCE OF PENNY DREADFULS A DEFENCE OF RASH VOWS A DEFENCE OF SKELETONS A DEFENCE OF PUBLICITY A DEFENCE OF NONSENSE A DEFE…
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The reissue of a series of essays so ephemeral and even superfluous may
seem at the first glance to require some excuse; probably the best excuse is that they will have been completely forgotten, and therefore m…
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A Defence Of Penny Dreadfuls
One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the vast mass of wh…
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A Defence Of Rash Vows
If a prosperous modern man, with a high hat and a frock-coat, were to solemnly pledge himself before all his clerks and friends to count th…
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A Defence Of Skeletons
Some little time ago I stood among immemorial English trees that seemed to take hold upon the stars like a brood of Ygdrasils. As I walked…
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A Defence Of Publicity
It is a very significant fact that the form of art in which the modern world has certainly not improved upon the ancient is what may roughl…
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A Defence Of Nonsense
There are two equal and eternal ways of looking at this twilight world of ours: we may see it as the twilight of evening or the twilight of…
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A Defence Of Planets
A book has at one time come under my notice called 'Terra Firma: the Earth not a Planet.' The author was a Mr. D. Wardlaw Scott, and he quo…
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A Defence Of China Shepherdesses
There are some things of which the world does not like to be reminded, for they are the dead loves of the world. One of these is that great…
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A Defence Of Useful Information
It is natural and proper enough that the masses of explosive ammunition stored up in detective stories and the replete and solid sweet-stuf…
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A Defence Of Heraldry
The modern view of heraldry is pretty accurately represented by the words of the famous barrister who, after cross-examining for some time…
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A Defence Of Ugly Things
There are some people who state that the exterior, sex, or physique of another person is indifferent to them, that they care only for the c…
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A Defence Of Farce
I have never been able to understand why certain forms of art should be marked off as something debased and trivial. A comedy is spoken of…
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A Defence Of Humility
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has to-day all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that t…
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A Defence Of Slang
The aristocrats of the nineteenth century have destroyed entirely their one solitary utility. It is their business to be flaunting and arro…
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A Defence Of Baby-Worship
The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children are, first, that they are very serious, and, secondly, that they are in…
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A Defence Of Detective Stories
In attempting to reach the genuine psychological reason for the popularity of detective stories, it is necessary to rid ourselves of many m…
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A Defence Of Patriotism
The decay of patriotism in England during the last year or two is a serious and distressing matter. Only in consequence of such a decay cou…