Topics include: The Greatness of the Romans; The Greatness of England; The Lamps of Fiction (A speech on the Centenary of the Birth of Sir Walter Scott); The Ascent of Man; The Proposed Substitutes for Religion; The Labour Movement; The Early Years of Abraham Lincoln; Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of Jane Austen; etc. Each gives the name of the magazine or newspaper it which it originally appeared.