FOOTNOTES

INDEX.

A

Artistic effect dependent on indistinctness (!); 241

B

Barometer, sideways motion of; 13

Bath, portable, for Tourists; 25

Books or minds. Which contain most Science? 21

Boots for horizontal weather; 14

Brain, inverted position of; 243

Bread-sauce. What appropriate for? 58

C

Carrying one’s-self. Why not fatiguing? 169

Child’s view of purpose of Life; 330

Choristers’ life, danger of; 274

Church-going, principle of; 272

Conceited people always depreciate others; 237

Content, opportunity for cultivating; 152

Conversation, how to indicate parentheses in; 251

” ” ” questions in; 251

‘Convenient’ and ‘Inconvenient,’ different meanings; 140

Critic, conceited, always depreciates; 237

” how to gain reputation of; 238

Crocodiles, logic of; 230

D

Darwinism reversed; 64

Day, shortness of, and length of, compared; 159

” true length of; 159

Debt, how to avoid payment of; 131

Dreaminess, certain cure for; 136

E

Electricity, influence of, on Literature; 64

Enjoyment of life, secret of; 335

Events in reversed order; 350

Extreme sobriety, inconvenience of; 140

Eye, images inverted by; 242

F

Fairies, how to improve character of; 190

” ” recognise presence of; 191

Falling house, life in a; 100

Final Causes, problem in; 297

Free-will and nerve-force; 390

Frog, young, how to amuse; 364

G

Gardener’s Song;

Elephant; 65.

Buffalo; 78.

Rattlesnake; 83.

Banker’s Clerk; 90.

Kangaroo; 106.

Coach-and-Four; 116.

Albatross; 164.

Garden-Door; 168

Ghosts, treatment of, by Shakespeare; 60

” ” in Railway-Literature; 58

” weltering, appropriate fluid for; 58

Graduated races of men; 299

H

Happiness, excessive, how to moderate; 159

Honesty, Dr. Watts’ argument for; 235

Horizontal rain, boots for; 14

House falling through Space, life in a; 100

Hymns appealing to selfishness; 276

I

‘Inconvenient’ and ‘Convenient’, different meanings; 140

Indistinctness necessary for artistic effect (!); 241

Inversion of Brain; 243

” images on Retina; 242

L

Ladies, logic of; 235

Least Common Multiple, rule of, applied to Literature; 22

Life, how to enjoy; 335

” in falling house; 100

” in reversed order; 350

” purpose of, as viewed by Child; 330

” regarded as a Drama; 333

Literature, development of, due to Steam; 64

” ” ” Electricity; 64

” for Railway; 58

” treated by Rule of Least Common Multiple; 22

Little man, privilege of being a; 299

Liturgy, chanted, effect of; 273

Logic of Crocodiles; 230

” Dr. Watts; 235

” ladies; 235

” requisites for complete argument in; 259

Loving or being loved. Which is best? 77

M

Men, graduated races of; 299

” little, privileges of; 299

Minds or books. Which contain most Science? 21

Money, effect of doubling value of; 312

Music, how to get the largest amount of; 338

N

Nerve-force and free-will; 390

Nerves, curiously slow action of; 158

Novel-reading, how to enjoy; 336

O

Onus probandi misplaced by Crocodiles; 230

” ” Dr. Watts; 235

” ” ladies; 235

Order of events reversed; 250

P

Pain, how to minimise; 337

Paley’s definition of Virtue; 274

Parentheses in conversation, how to indicate; 251

‘Phlizz’, a visionary flower; 282

” ” fruit; 75

” ” nurse-maid; 283

Pictures, how to criticize; 238

Pleasure, how to maximise; 335

Plunge-bath, portable; 25

Poor people, simple method for enriching; 312

Portable bath for tourists; 25

Poverty, the blessings of; 152

Prayer for temporal blessings, effect of; 391

Preachers, exceptional privileges of; 277

” appealing to selfishness; 276

Proof, burden of, misplaced by Crocodiles; 230

” ” ” Dr. Watts; 235

” ” ” ladies; 235

Q

Questions in conversation, how to indicate; 251

R

Railway-literature; 58

” scenes regarded as dramatic; 333

Rain, horizontal, boots for; 14

Retina, images inverted on; 242

Reversed order of events; 350

S

Scenery, enjoyment of, by little men; 299

Science. Do books, or minds, contain most? 21

Selfishness appealed to in hymns; 276

” ” religious teaching; 275

” ” sermons; 276

Sermons appealing to selfishness; 276

Shakespeare, passages treated of:—

‘All the world’s a stage’; 335

‘Aye, every inch a king!’; 373

‘Is this a dagger that I see before me?’; 371

‘Rest, rest, perturbed Spirit!’; 60

‘To be, or not to be’; 370

Shakespeare’s treatment of ghosts; 60

Short man, privilege of being a; 299

Sillygism, requisites for a; 259

Sobriety, extreme, inconvenience of; 140

Spencer, Herbert, difficulties in; 258

Sport, false and true; 318

Steam, influence of, on Literature; 64

Sunday, as spent by children of last generation; 387

” observance of; 385

T

Time, how to put back; 314, 347

” ” reverse; 350

Tourists’ portable bath; 25

V

Virtue, Paley’s definition of; 274

W

Watts, Dr., weak logic of; 235

Weather, horizontal, boots for; 14

Weight, relative, conceivably non-existent; 100

Weltering, appropriate fluids for; 58