This collection of essays is organized as follows:
I. Sketches of Politicians
The Council of Four, Paris, 1919
Mr. Lloyd George
Mr. Bonar Law
Lord Oxford
Edwin Montagu
Winston Churchill
The Great Villiers Connection
Trotsky on England
II. Lives of Economists
Robert Malthus (1766-1835)
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926)
F. P. Ramsey (1903-1930)
William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
Newton, the Man
Mary Paley Marshall (1850-1944)