XLI.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of
requiring studious men to cultivate social relations
questioned--Twenty men selected for the experiment--Result--The
works of the "Seclusionists" and of the "Society-Sympathisers"--The
MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to the Narrator's
views


XLII.--THEATRES--ENTERTAINMENTS.

Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited--
Beautiful effects produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING
CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic
Drama--Races and public games--Parties for children--Labouring
people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION of
strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE


XLIII--SHIPS.

Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model
sought--"Swan Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes
submerged--Sufferings of the passengers for want of
air--Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled
by electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the
vessel--TIMBER FOR SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against
insects in every part--The COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its