Table of Contents:
- Introductory remarks on the importance of othodoxy
- On the negative spirit
- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small
- Mr. Bernard Shaw
- Mr. H. G. Wells and the giants
- Christmas and the aesthetes
- Omar and the sacred vine
- The mildness of the yellow press
- The moods of Mr. George Moore
- On sandals and simplicity
- Science and the savages
- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
- Celts and Celtophiles
- On certain modern writers and the institution of the family
- On smart novelists and the smart set
- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity
- On the wit of Whistler
- The fallacy of the young nation
- Slum novelists and the slums
- Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy.