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Icelandic Mythology.

Rousseau’s “Émile.”

Civil law in commerce.

Sirius as the centre of a solar system.

Import Duties as ineffectual, improperly inquisitive, unjust and immoral. (I had never heard of this.)

Verse as the oldest language. (I don’t believe that.)

White ants.

The unnaturalness of Schools.

Prostitution in marriage. (This is a shameful piece of writing.)

Hydraulics in connection with rice-plantations.

The apparent preponderance of Western civilization.

Land-ownership, registration and stamp-duty.

Children’s books, fables and fairy-tales. (I’ll just read that, for he insists on truth.)

The middle-man in trade. (This doesn’t appeal to me at all. I believe he wants to do without brokers. However, I have put it by for the present, as there are one or two references in it which I can use for my book.)

Succession-duties, one of the best taxes.

The invention of chastity. (I don’t understand this.)

Multiplication. (This title sounds quite simple, but there are a good many things in this article that I had never thought of.)

The nature of a certain kind of French wit, a consequence of the poverty of the French language. (Quite true, I should say. Wit and poverty he ought to know.)

The connection between the novels of August Lafontaine and consumption. (I’ll read this, for there are some books of this Lafontaine in the loft. But he says the influence doesn’t show until the second generation. My grandfather didn’t read.)

The power of England outside Europe.