Table of Contents:
- A conversation with an angel
- On turbots and sea-horses
- On poverty
- On getting rid of people
- On academic hate
- Dickens revisited
- On the tears of the great
- On labels
- On the fall of Lucifer
- On epigrams
- If
- 'Vathek'
- On laughter
- To the pious and immortal memory of George II
- On Renan
- On speeches
- On the books that change the world
- On Gibbon
- On translation
- On witchcraft
- The man who lashed out
- On lucidity
- The bastard's book
- On Macaulay
- On the word 'scientific'
- On diaries - On paverment artists
- On bridges
- On not reading books
- On advertisement
- On certain terms
- On not knowing where one is going
- The creative muse
- A remaining Christmas.