1. The Beauty Industry Aldous L. Huxley 2. Meditation on the Moon Aldous L. Huxley 3. Punishment Never Cures Anything Alexander Southerland Nell 4. Universities and Their Function Alfred North Whitehead 5. In July Alice Meynell 6. On Book-Buying Augustine Birrell 7. What I Have Lived For Bertrand Russell 8. August Charles Dickens 9. The Child Angel: A Dream Charles Lamb 10. Insouciance D. H. Lawrence 11. Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature David Hume 12. Journey Through a Tunnel David Storey 13. Unworldliness of the Early Christians Edward Gibbon 14. Take Your Home into Your Own Hands Evelyn Waugh 15. Of Boldness Francis Bacon 16. Of Studies Francis Bacon 17. Of Youth and Age Francis Bacon 18. Of Wisdom for a Mans Self Francis Bacon 19. My Life Is Over George Gissing 20. Politics and the English Language George Orwell 21. Getting Up on Cold Mornings James H. L. Hunt 22. A Passion for Cities Jan Morris 23. First Snow John Boynton Priestley 24. The Definition of a Gentleman John Henry Newman 25. The Tapestry of Human Life John Henry Newman 26. The Importance of Ones Own Language John Locke 27. Good and Evil John Milton 28. About Books John Ruskin 29. A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding Jonathan Swift 30. Thoughts in Westminster Abbey Joseph Addison 31. The Artist and the World loyce Cary 32. Upon Affectation Lord Chesterfield 33. Heine and the Philistines Matthew Arnold 34. National Prejudices Oliver Goldsmith 35. Conversation Samuel Johnson 36. On Idleness Samuel Johnson 37. Preface to His Dictionary Samuel Johnson 38. Companionship of Books Samuel Smiles 39. On Recollections of Childhood Sir Richard Steele 40. The Romance of History Thomas Babington Macaulay 41. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth Thomas De Quincey 42. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs Thomas Pains 43. Her Own Village W H. Hudson 44. The Faces of Buddha William Empson 45. An Afternoon Walk in October William Hale White 46. On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin William Hazlitt 47. On Going aJourney William Hazlitt 48. Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony William Somerset Maugham 49. Of Beauty, Fame, Longevity, etc. William Somerset Maugham 50. The Philosopher William Somerset Maugham 51. The Joys of Writing Winston Churchill