Proem.--On visiting fashionable places out of season.--A note on Philip Thicknesse.--Ouida.--The later work of Herman Melville.--Edgar Saltus.--Henry Blake Fuller.--Matthew Phipps Shiel.--Arthur Machen: dreamer and mystic.--Ronald Firbank.--Sophie Arnould.--Oscar Hammerstein: an epitaph.--Leo Delibes.--Sir Arthur Sullivan.--Isaac Albeniz.--Erik Satie.--A note on dedications.