From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Suspicion
11:00 - Chapter 2
On Good Resolutions
11:08 - Chapter 3
The Sin of Dancing
10:09 - Chapter 4
Thoughts at a Tango Tea
14:17 - Chapter 5
The Humours of Murder
14:58 - Chapter 6
The Decline and Fall of Hell
09:05 - Chapter 7
On Cheerful Readers
10:55 - Chapter 8
St G. B. S. and the Bishop
10:44 - Chapter 9
Stupidity
14:37 - Chapter 10
Waste
12:56 - Chapter 11
On Christmas
12:04 - Chapter 12
On Demagogues
12:03 - Chapter 13
On Coincidences
13:42 - Chapter 14
On Indignation
12:22 - Chapter 15
The Heart of Mr Galsworthy
13:11 - Chapter 16
Spring Fashions
13:31 - Chapter 17
On Black Cats
09:52 - Chapter 18
On Being Shocked
14:06 - Chapter 19
Confessions
11:27 - Chapter 20
The Terrors of Politics
11:33 - Chapter 21
On Disasters
13:55 - Chapter 22
The Rights of Murder
12:34 - Chapter 23
The Humour of Hoaxes
12:37 - Chapter 24
Anatole France
11:50 - Chapter 25
The Sea
13:21 - Chapter 26
The Futurists
14:05 - Chapter 27
A Defence of Critics
11:12 - Chapter 28
On the Beauty of Statistics
12:18