Complete Essays: 1930-1935, Vol. 3 Book

A Note on This Edition	xi
Introduction	xiii
I. ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC
Aesop Revised	5
The Critic in the Crib	10
Art and the Critic	14
Vulgarity in Literature	19
Reading, the New Vice	48
Tragedy and the Whole Truth	50
The Rest Is Silence	56
Art and the Obvious	58
"And Wanton Optics Roll the Melting Eye"	62
Music at Night	67
Meditation on El Greco	71
Those Personal Touches	77
Sermons in Cats	82
An Exhibition	86
Too Many Books	88
Art and Propaganda	90
Letter Writing	91
Words, Words, Words	93
Best of Both Worlds	94
The Export ofWords	96
Names and Things	97
Fiction and Fact	99
The Music Industry	100
The Hundred Best Books	102
Best-sellers	103
Artists Against Fascism and War	105
II. SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION
Meditation in Arundel Street	109
Meditation on the Moon	110
Beliefs and Actions	112
On Grace	117
Boundaries of Utopia	124
On the Charms of History and the Future of the Past	129
Obstacle Race	138
Squeak and Gibber	144
Science and Civilization	148
Atoms Versus Men	156
Monks Among Test Tubes	157
Faith	159
Science of Politics?	160
Religion, Science, and Man	162
Science's Growth	164
Mind Reading	165
Science Turns to the Supernatural	167
The Truth About Thinking	179
III. HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIAL CRITICISM
The Outlook for American Culture	185
In Praise of Intolerance	194
The Best Authorities	198
America and Europe: Yesterday's Influence on Today	202
The New Salvation	209
Some American Contradictions	213
Machinery, Psychology, and Politics	218
This Community Business	221
Fatal Ladies	226
Babies—State Property	229
What Ghandi Fails to See	232
To the Puritan All Things Are Impure	236
Document	240
Points of View	241
Ethics in Andalusia	242
Foreheads Villainous Low	246
The New Romanticism	250
Selected Snobberies	254
The Beauty Industry	257
Wanted, a New Pleasure	260
Abroad in England	264
Sight-seeing in Alien Englands	274
The Victory of Art over Humanity	282
Revolution	289
On Going Over a Battleship	290
Imitations	292
Ideals and the Machine Tool	294
Greater and Lesser London	295
Love Interest Forecast	301
A Treatise on Drugs	303
A Letter from India	305
Pygmalion	307
A Soviet Schoolbook	308
Forewarned Is Not Forearmed	310
Hyde Park on Sunday	312
In Whose Name?	313
A Generation War?	315
Poppy Juice	316
Paper	318
The Use of Uselessness	319
Flight from Force	321
Are We Growing Stupider?	323
Peace in Our Time	325
Japanese Advertisement	326
Industrial Progress and Social Stability	328
Sex, the Slump, and Salvation	331
False Prophets	334
New World Drama	336
The Problem of Leisure	337
The Reality of Progress	339
Compulsory Suicide	341
Swastika and Arrows	342
Man Proposes	344
Dangers of Diversity	345
The Problems of Property	347
What Is the State?	348
Education	350
Aristocratic Tradition	352
Collection	353
Hamlet in Russia	355
Psychological Dividends	356
Living Through History	358
Political Plans	359
Primitive Minds	360
Primitive and Civilized	361
Bovarism	362
Functional or Ornamental	364
Force and Persuasion	365
Scapegoats	367
Anthropology at Home	368
Discipline	370
The Reality of Progress	371
German Bonfires	373
The Race Racket	374
Population and Politics	375
Racial History	377
Swindlers and Swindlees	379
The Prospects of Fascism in England	380
The Strain of Modern Life	384
Pareto and Society	386
Nights Out	389
Catastrophes	390
Dispatches from the Riviera	392
Reason Eclipsed	398
What Is Happening to Our Population?	399
100 Years Hence	408
Idolatry	409
500 Prophets	411
Pistol Fiends	412
The Worth of a Gift	414
Casino and Bourse	419
Angry Ape	422
The Next 25 Years	423
Ballyhoo for Nations	426
Emperor-Worship Up to Date	438
General Election	440
Political Murder	445
Lord Campbell and Mr. Charles	447
IV. TRAVEL
Beyond the Mexique Bay	453
Appendix	607
Index	609