SCIENCE IN ARCADY BY GRANT ALLEN CONTENTS. PAGE MY ISLANDS 1 TROPICAL EDUCATION 21 ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND 40 A DESERT FRUIT 56 PRETTY POLL 71 HIGH LIFE 90 EIGHT-LEGGED FRIENDS 105 MUD 123 THE GREENWOOD TREE 140 FISH AS FATHERS 157 AN ENGLISH SHIRE 177 THE BRONZE AXE 212 THE ISLE OF RUIM 231 A HILL-TOP STRONGHOLD 250 A PERSISTENT NATIONALITY 266 CASTERS AND CHESTERS 274 EARLY BRITAIN. ANGLO-SAXON BRITAIN. BY GRANT ALLEN, B.A. Table of Contents. PREFACE. CHAPTER I. The Origin of the English. CHAPTER II. The English by the Shores of the Baltic. CHAPTER III. The English Settle in Britain. CHAPTER IV. The Colonisation of the Coast. CHAPTER V. The English in Their New Homes. CHAPTER VI. The Conquest of the Interior. CHAPTER VII. The Nature and Extent of the English Settlement. CHAPTER VIII. Heathen England. CHAPTER IX. The Conversion of the English. CHAPTER X. Rome and Iona. CHAPTER XI. Christian England. CHAPTER XII. The Consolidation of the Kingdoms. CHAPTER XIII. The Resistance to the Danes. CHAPTER XIV. The Saxons at Bay in Wessex. CHAPTER XV. The Recovery of the North. CHAPTER XVI. The Augustan Age and the Later Anglo-Saxon Civilisation. CHAPTER XVII. The Decadence. CHAPTER XVIII. The Anglo-Saxon Language. CHAPTER XIX. Anglo-Saxon Nomenclature. CHAPTER XX. Anglo-Saxon Literature. CHAPTER XXI. Anglo-Saxon Influences in Modern Britain. INDEX. FALLING IN LOVE WITH OTHER ESSAYS ON MORE EXACT BRANCHES OF SCIENCE BY GRANT ALLEN 1889 CONTENTS PAGE Falling in Love 1 Right and Left 18 Evolution 31 Strictly Incog. 50 Seven-Year Sleepers 72 A Fossil Continent 88 A Very Old Master 106 British and Foreign 123 Thunderbolts 137 Honey-dew 159 The Milk in the Coco-Nut 176 Food and Feeding 193 De Banana 216 Go to the Ant 233 Big Animals 251 Fossil Food 271 Ogbury Barrows 287 Fish Out of Water 302 The First Potter 316 The Recipe for Genius 328 Desert Sands 341 Post-Prandial Philosophy By Grant Allen 1894 CONTENTS PAGE I. THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AMONG LANGUAGES 1 II. IN THE MATTER OF ARISTOCRACY 9 III. SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 18 IV. THE THEORY OF SCAPEGOATS 27 V. AMERICAN DUCHESSES 35 VI. IS ENGLAND PLAYED OUT? 44 VII. THE GAME AND THE RULES 53 VIII. THE RÔLE OF PROPHET 61 IX. THE ROMANCE OF THE CLASH OF RACES 70 X. THE MONOPOLIST INSTINCTS 79 XI. "MERE AMATEURS" 87 XII. A SQUALID VILLAGE 95 XIII. CONCERNING ZEITGEIST 104 XIV. THE DECLINE OF MARRIAGE 112 XV. EYE versus EAR 122 XVI. THE POLITICAL PUPA 130 XVII. ON THE CASINO TERRACE 138 XVIII. THE CELTIC FRINGE 147 XIX. IMAGINATION AND RADICALS 156 XX. ABOUT ABROAD 165 XXI. WHY ENGLAND IS BEAUTIFUL 173 XXII. ANENT ART PRODUCTION 182 XXIII. A GLIMPSE INTO UTOPIA 190 XXIV. OF SECOND CHAMBERS 199 XXV. A POINT OF CRITICISM 207