On weighing anchor -- The Reveillon -- On cheeses -- The captain of industry -- The inventor -- The views of England -- The lunatic -- The inheritance of humour -- The old gentleman's opinions -- On historical evidence -- The absence of the past -- St. Patrick -- The lost things -- On the reading of history -- The victory -- Reality -- On the decline of the book -- José Maria de Heredia -- Normandy and the Normans -- The old things -- The Battle of Hastings -- The Roman roads in Picardy -- The reward of letters -- The eye-openers -- The public -- On entries -- Companions of travel -- On the sources of rivers -- On error -- The great sight -- The decline of a state -- On past greatness -- Mr. the duke: the man of Malplaquet -- The game of cards -- "King Lear" -- The excursion -- The tide -- On a great wind -- The letter -- The regret -- The end of the world.

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