Part 1. The second darkness. The last parade ; The menace to freedom ; Jew-consciousness ; Our deputation ; Racial exercise ; Post-Munich ; Gerald Heard ; They hold their tongues ; Three anti-Nazi broadcasts: 1. Culture and freedom, 2. What has Germany done to the Germans, 3. What would Germany do to us? ; Tolerance ; Ronald Kidd ; The tercentenary of the "Areopagitica" ; The challenge of our time ; George Orwell --; pt. 2. What I believe. Art in general: Anonymity: an enquiry ; Art for art's sake ; The duty of society to the artist ; Does culture matter? ; The raison d'etre of criticism in the arts ; The C minor of that life ; Not listening to music ; Not looking at pictures. The arts in action: John Skelton ; "Julius Caesar" ; The Stratford Jubilee of 1769 ; Gibbon and his "autobiography" ; Voltaire and Frederick the Great ; George Crabbe and Peter Grimes ; Bishop Jebb's book ; Henry Thornton ; William Arnold ; "Snow" Wedgwood ; William Barnes ; Three stories by Tolstoy ; Edward Carpenter ; Webb and Webb ; A book that influenced me ; Our second greatest novel? ; Gide and George ; Gide's death ; Romain Rolland and the hero ; A whiff of D'Annunzio ; Virginia Woolf ; Two books by T.S. Eliot ; "The ascent of F.6" ; "The enchafed flood" ; Forrest Reid ; English prose between 1918 and 1939 ; An outsider on poetry ; Mohammed Iqbal ; Syed Ross Masood ; A duke remembers ; Mrs. Miniver ; In my library ; The London library. Places: A letter to Madan Blanchard ; India again ; Luncheon at Pretoria ; The United States ; Mount Lebanon ; Ferney ; Clouds Hill ; Cambridge ; London is a muddle ; The last of Abinger.