Contents: introductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy; 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; 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.