Gallop—The Dog in Mycenæan Art—What ought an Artist to do?—Attention as a Condition of Seeing—Judgment and Prejudice—Natural and Artificial Paces—Photographs by Electric Spark—Use of Instantaneous Photographs—Errors as to the Size of the Moon—The Painter and the Moon—The Moon on the Stage.

V. The Jewel in the Toad's Head 55 The Decay of Credulity—A Sceptical Physician—How to Test a Toadstone—Other Magical Stones—Medicinal and Magical Stones. VI. Elephants 65 The Indian and the African Elephant—Size of Modern Elephants—Ears and Teeth of Elephants—Earliest Elephants brought to Europe—The Elephant's Legs—Tusks used in Digging—Elephants used in War—Geological Strata since the Chalk—Ancestral Mammals—The Typical or Ancestral Set of Teeth—The Peculiarities of the Teeth of Elephants—Extinct Relatives of Elephants—Ancestors of Elephants—Origin of the Elephant's Trunk.

VII.	A Strange Extinct Beast	92
	Fossil Skeletons and Jaw-bones—The Skull and Teeth of Goats—The Teeth of Rats—The Rat-toothed Goat—Origin of the Rat-toothed Goat.
VIII.	Vegetarians and Their Teeth	102
	Teeth of Carnivors—Mixed Diets—Disease-germs in Food.
IX.	Food and Cookery	113
	Special Diet of Various Races—Food and Habit—Nervous Control of Digestion—Wholesale Food and Mechanical Cookery—The Burnt Offering of the Jews—Women Neglect Cookery—A Great German's Appreciation.
X.	Smells and Perfumes	126
	Smells and Memory—Accidental Qualities—Bacteria and Smells—Some Remarkable Smells.
XI.	Kisses	134
	Kissing and Smelling—Variations in the Sense of Smell—Radiation and Odours—Attraction by Smell—Unconscious Guidance by Smell.
XII.	Laughter	144
	Why do we Laugh?—Varieties of Laughter—The Laugh of Escape from Death—The Laugh of Derision.
XIII.	Fatherless Frogs	152
	Fertilization of the Egg-cell—Egg-cells Developing Unfertilized—M. Bataillon's Discovery.
XIV.	Primitive Beliefs about Fatherless Progeny	159
	Harvey and Milton—Reproduction by Budding—Stories of Virgin Births—Spiritual Theory of Conception.
XV.	The Pygmy Races of Men	167
	Characteristics of Pygmies—Colour of the Skin—Egyptian Stories of Pygmies—Congo and New Guinea Pygmies—The Causes of Small Size—Smallness a Correlation.

XVI.	Prehistoric Petticoats	180
	Early Carvings and Pictures—Paintings in Caverns—Painting of Human Figures—Artistic Sympathy—Aurignacians and Bushmen Allied.
XVII.	New Year's Day and the Calendar	191
	Make-believe and New Year—Divisions of Time—The Difficulties of the Calendar—Pope Gregory's Ten Days—The Astronomer Royal and the Shah.
XVIII.	Eastertide, Shamrocks and Spermaceti	201
	The Real Shamrock—Sham Shamrock—Leonardo or Lucas?—Various Fats.
XIX.	Museums	209
	The Muses—The Museum of Alexandria—Picture Galleries and Museums—The Purposes of Museums—The First Business of Museums—National Value of Museums—University Museums—Not for Children but for Adults—Screens and Electric Lifts—Frames and Setting of Pictures.
XX.	The Secret of a Terrible Disease	227
	The Angel of Death—The Tyranny of Parasites—Typhus and Monkeys—Typhus Fever in Russia.
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