on Derby Day? Do water-colours fade? Will the ether theory live? or
Stanley's reputation? Is Free Trade fair? Is a Free Press? Is
fox-hunting cruel? or pigeon-shooting? How about the Queen's
staghounds? Should not each railway station bear its name in big
letters? and have better refreshments? Should we permit sky-signs?
Limits of advertisement. Preservation of historic buildings and
beautiful views _v_. utilitarianism. Is the coinage ugly? Should we
not get letters on Sunday? Who really wrote the "Marseillaise"? Are
examinations any real test? Promotion in the Army or the Civil
Service. Is logic or mathematics the primal science? and what is the
best system of symbolic logic? Should curates be paid more and
archbishops less? Should postmen knock? or combine? Are they under
military regime? or underpaid? Should Board School children be taught
religion? The future of China and Japan. Is Anglo-Indian society
immoral? Style or matter? Have we one personality or many?--with a
hundred other questions of psychology and ethics. A graduated income
tax--with a hundred other questions of political economy. Asphalt for
horses. Will the French republic endure? Will America have an
aristocracy? Shall Welsh perish? Is Platonic love possible? Did
Shakespeare write "Coriolanus"? Is there a skull in Holbein's
"Ambassadors"? What is the meaning of Dryden's line, "He was and is
the Captain of the Test"? or of the horny projection under the left
wing of the sub-parasite of the third leg of a black-beetle? Was Orme
poisoned? Are there fresh-water jelly-fishes? Is physiognomy true? or
phrenology? or graphology? or cheiromancy? If so, what are their
laws? Opinions on Guelphs and Ghibellines, fasting displays,
infanticide, the genealogy of the peerage, the origin of public-house
signs, Siberia, the author of Junius, of the Sibylline Books,
werewolves, dyeing one's hair, coffin-ships, standing armies, the
mediaeval monasteries, Church Brotherhoods, state insurance of the