Intellectual Apathy of Conservatives--A Novel Which Attempts to Harmonize Socialist Principles with Conservative
A Winter in Cyprus--Florence--Siena--Italian Castles--Cannes--Some Foreign Royalties--Visit During the Following Spring to Princess Batthyany in Hungary
The Second Lord Lytton at Knebworth--"Ouida"--Conservative Torpor as to Social Politics--Two Books: _Labor and the Popular Welfare_ and _Aristocracy and Evolution_--Letters from Herbert Spencer
The So-called Anglican Crisis--_Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption_--Three Novels: _A Human Document_, _The Heart of Life_, _The Individualist_--Three Works on the Philosophy of Religion: _Religion as a Credible Doctrine_, _The Veil of the Temple_, _The Reconstruction of Belief_--Passages from _The Veil of the Temple_
Summer on the Borders of Caithness--A Two Months' Yachting Cruise--The Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides--An Unexpected Political Summons
Addresses on Socialism--Arrangements for Their Delivery--American Society in Long Island and New York--Harvard--Prof. William James--President Roosevelt--Chicago--Second Stay in New York--New York to Brittany--_A Critical Examination of Socialism_--Propaganda in England
A Boy's Conservatism--Poetic Ambitions--The Philosophy of Religious Belief--The Philosophy of Industrial Conservatism--Intellectual Torpor of Conservatives--Final Treatises and Fiction
Literature as Speech Made Permanent--All Written Speech Not Literature--The Essence of Literature for Its Own Sake--Prose as a Fine Art--Some Interesting Aspects of Literature as an End in Itself--Their Comparative Triviality--No Literature Great Which Is Not More Than Literature--Literature as a Vehicle of Religion--Lucretius--_The Reconstruction of Belief_
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE _Frontispiece_
The Mallocks of Cockington--Some Old Devonshire Houses--A Child's Outlook on Life
"Memoirs" is a word which, as commonly used, includes books of very various kinds, ranging from St. Augustine's _Confessions_ to the gossip of Lady Dorothy Nevill. Such books, however, have all one family likeness. They all of them represent life as seen by the writers from a personal point of view; and in this sense it is to the family of Memoirs that the present book belongs.