Table of Contents:
- Essays: On the pleasure of taking up one's pen
- The pleasant place
- On inns
- On the hotel at Palma and a proposed guide-book
- The onion-eater
- The harbour in the north
- The young people
- On a hermit whom I knew
- The old things
- Mr. the Duke: the man of Malplaquet
- On the sources of rivers
- The eye-openers
- The little old man
- A crossing of the hills
- On a great wind
- On a winged horse and the exile who rode him
- On rest
- History: The last days of Marie Antoinette
- Mr. Barr's annoyance
- The barricade
- Travel: Pyrenean hostelries
- The little ships
- Fiction: Lord Benthorpe
- The oblique method: The short lyric
- Nonsense for children: Proem
- The yak
- The Python
- G
- O
- Godolphin Horne
- Conclusion: In coming to an end
- "He does not die."