Amateurs _v_. professionals in sports. Is prize-fighting beneficial?
Is trial by jury played out? The cost of law: Chancery. Abuses of the
Universities. The Cambridge Spinning House. Compulsory Greek. The
endowment of research. A teaching university in London. Is there a
sea-serpent? Servants _v._ mistresses. Shall the Jews have Palestine?
Classical _v._ modern side in schools. Should we abolish the
censorship of plays? or fees? or found a dramatic academy? or a State
theatre? Should gambling be legal? Should potatoes be boiled in their
skins? should dynamiters? Should newspapers publish racing tips? or
divorce cases? or comment? The New Journalism. What is the best ninth
move in the Evans gambit? Would Morphy have been a first-class
chess-player to-day? Is the Steinitz gambit sound? Do plants dream?
Ought we to fill up income-tax papers accurately? Shelley and Harriet
and Mary. Swift and Vanessa and Stella. Lord and Lady Byron. Did Mrs.
Carlyle deserve it? The limits of biography; of photography in
painting; of the spot-stroke in billiards. Did Shakespeare hold
horses? Should girls be brought up like boys, or boys like girls, or
both like one another? Are animals automata? Have they reason? or do
they live without reason? Will Brighton A's fall? or Peruvians rise?
Is it cruel to cage birds and animals? What is the best breed of
horses? Did Wellington say "Up, Guards, and at 'em"? Cremation _v._
Burial. Should immoral men be allowed to retain office? Is suicide
immoral? Opinion of the character of Elizabeth, Parnell, Catherine,
Cleopatra, Rousseau, Jack the Ripper, Semiramis, Lucrezia Borgia,
etc., etc. The present state of the Libel Law; and of the Game Laws.
Is vegetarianism higher? or healthier? Do actors feel their parts?
Should German type be abolished? or book-edges cut? or editions
artificially limited? or organ-grinders? How about
church-and-muffin-bells? Peasant proprietorship. Deer or Highlanders?
Were our ancestors taller than we? Is fruit or market-gardening or