poor, promiscuous almsgiving, the rights of animals, the C. D. Acts,
the Kernoozer Club, emigration, book-plates, the Psychical Society,
Kindergarten, Henry George, Positivism, Chevalier's Coster,
colour-blindness, Total Abstinence, Arbitration, the best hundred
books, Local Option, Women's Rights, the Wandering Jew, the Flying
Dutchman, the Neanderthal skull, the Early Closing movement, the
Prince of Wales, and the Tonic Sol-fa notation. Is there an English
hexameter? Is a perfect translation impossible? Will the coloured
races conquer? Is consumption curable? Is celibacy possible? Can
novels be really dramatised? Is the French school of acting superior
to ours? Should literary men be offered peerages? or refuse them?
Should quack-doctors be prosecuted? Should critics practise without a
license? Are the poor happier or unhappier than the rich? or is Paley
right? Did Paley steal his celebrated watch? Did Milton steal from
Vondel? Is the Salon dead in England? Should duelling be revived?
What is the right thing in dados, hall-lamps, dressing-gowns, etc.?
Should ladies smoke? Is there a Ghetto in England? Anti-Semitism. Why
should London wait? or German waiters? Mr. Stead's revival of
pilgrimages. Is Grimm's Law universal? The abuses of the Civil
Service; of the Pension List. Dr. Barnardo. Grievances of
match-girls; of elementary teachers. Are our police reliable? Is
Stevenson's Scotch accurate? Is our lifeboat service efficient? The
Eastern Question. What is an English fairy-tale? What are the spots
on the sun? Have they anything to do with commercial crises? Should
we spoil the Court if we spared the Black Rod? or the City if we
spared the Lord Mayor? Is chloroforming dangerous? Should armorial
bearings be taxed? or a tradesman's holiday use of his cart? Should
classical texts be Bowdlerised for school-boys? Is the confessional
of value? Is red the best colour for a soldier's uniform or for a
target? Will it rain to-morrow? Ought any one to carry firearms? Do