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murderer. The
Tichborne case, and every other cause célèbre, including divorce cases.
Crime and punishment. Music-hall songs. Heredity: are acquired
qualities inherited? Is tobacco a mistake? Is drink? Is marriage? Is the
high hat? Polygamy; the social evil. Are the planets inhabited? Is the
English concert pitch too high? The divided skirt. The antiquity of man.
Geology: is the story of the rocks short, or long, or true? Geology v.
Genesis; Genesis v. Kuenen. Was Pope a poet? Was Whitman? Was
Poe a drunkard, or Griswold a liar? Was Hamlet mad? Was Blake? Is
waltzing immoral? Is humour declining? Is there a modern British
drama? Corporal punishment in schools. Compulsory vaccination.
What shall we do with our daughters? or our sons? or our criminals? or
our paupers? or ourselves? Female franchise. Republicanism. Which is
the best soap? or tooth-powder? Is Morris's printing really good? Is the
race progressing? Is our navy fit? Should dynamite be used in war? or
in peace? What persons should be buried in Westminster Abbey?
Origin of every fairy-tale. Who made our proverbs and ballads? Cold
baths v. hot or Turkish. Home Rule. Should the Royal Academy be
abolished? and who should be the next R.A.? Should there be an
Academy of Literature? or a Channel Tunnel? Was De Lesseps to
blame? Should we not patronise English watering-places? Should there
be pianos in board schools? or theology? Authors and publishers; artists
and authors. Is literature a trade? Should pauper aliens be admitted? or
pauper couples separated? Bank Holiday. Irving v. Tree. The world's
politics, present, future, and even past--retrospective questions being
constantly re-agitated: as, Should the American slaves have been
emancipated? or Was the French Revolution a Folly? Apropos, which
is the best history of it? Who is the rightful Queen of England? Is
cycling injurious to the cyclist? or the public? Who was the Man in the
Iron Mask? Is the Stock Exchange immoral? What is influenza? Ought
we to give cabmen more than their fare? Tips generally. Should dogs be
muzzled? Have we a right to extend our empire? or to keep it? Should
we federate it? Are there ghosts? Is spiritualism a fraud? Is theosophy?
Was Madame Blavatsky? Was Jezebel a wretch, or a Hellenist? The

abuse of the quarantine. Should ladies ride astride? Amateurs v.
professionals in sports. Is prize-fighting beneficial? Is trial by jury
played out? The cost of law: Chancery. Abuses of the Universities. The
Cambridge Spinning House. Compulsory Greek. The endowment of
research. A teaching university in London. Is there a sea-serpent?
Servants v. mistresses. Shall the Jews have Palestine? Classical v.
modern side in schools. Should we abolish the censorship of plays? or
fees? or found a dramatic academy? or a State theatre? Should
gambling be legal? Should potatoes be boiled in their skins? should
dynamiters? Should newspapers publish racing tips? or divorce cases?
or comment? The New Journalism. What is the best ninth move in the
Evans gambit? Would Morphy have been a first-class chess-player
to-day? Is the Steinitz gambit sound? Do plants dream? Ought we to fill
up income-tax papers accurately? Shelley and Harriet and Mary. Swift
and Vanessa and Stella. Lord and Lady Byron. Did Mrs. Carlyle
deserve it? The limits of biography; of photography in painting; of the
spot-stroke in billiards. Did Shakespeare hold horses? Should girls be
brought up like boys, or boys like girls, or both like one another? Are
animals automata? Have they reason? or do they live without reason?
Will Brighton A's fall? or Peruvians rise? Is it cruel to cage birds and
animals? What is the best breed of horses? Did Wellington say "Up,
Guards, and at 'em"? Cremation v. Burial. Should immoral men be
allowed to retain office? Is suicide immoral? Opinion of the character
of Elizabeth, Parnell, Catherine, Cleopatra, Rousseau, Jack the Ripper,
Semiramis, Lucrezia Borgia, etc., etc. The present state of the Libel
Law; and of the Game Laws. Is vegetarianism higher? or healthier? Do
actors feel their parts? Should German type be abolished? or
book-edges cut? or editions artificially limited? or organ-grinders?
How about church-and-muffin-bells? Peasant proprietorship. Deer or
Highlanders? Were our ancestors taller than we? Is fruit or
market-gardening or cattle-farming more profitable? Dutch v. Italian
gardening. What is an etching? Do dreams come true? Is freemasonry a
fraud? or champagne? are Havanas? Best brand of whiskey? Ought
Building and Friendly Societies to be supervised? Smoking in theatres.
Should gentlemen pay ladies' cab-fares? Genius and insanity. Are
cigarettes poisonous? Is luxury a boon? Thirteen at table, and all other
superstitions--are they foolish? Why young men don't marry. Shall we

ever reach the Pole? How soon will England and the States be at war?
The real sites and people in Thackeray's novels. A universal penny post?
Cheap telegrams and telephones? Is the Bank of England safe? Are