[1]At the moment, when I had written these words, there was a knock at the door, and a telegram was brought me, announcing the sudden death of a dear friend. 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