"Certain Personal Matters" by H. G. Wells contains the essays: "Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte", "The Trouble of Life", "On the Choice of a Wife", "The House of Di Sorno: A Manuscript Found in a Box", "Of Conversation: An Apology", "In a Literary Household", "On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome", "The Poet and the Emporium", "The Language of Flowers", "The Literary Regimen", "House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement", "Of Blades and Bladery", "Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton", "The Pose Novel", "The Veteran Cricketer", "Concerning a Certain Lady", "The Shopman", "The Book of Curses", "Dunstone's Dear Lady", "Euphemia's New Entertainment", "For Freedom of Spelling: The Discovery of an Art", "Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head", "Of a Book Unwritten", "The Extinction of Man", "The Writing of Essays", "The Parkes Museum", "Bleak March in Epping Forest", "The Theory of Quotation", "On the Art of Staying at the Seaside: A Meditation at Eastbourne", "Concerning Chess", "The Coal-Scuttle: A Study in Domestic Aesthetics", "Bagarrow", "The Book of Essays Dedicatory", "Through a Microscope: Some Moral Reflections", "The Pleasure of Quarreling", "The Amateur Nature Lover", "From an Observatory", "The Mode in Monuments: Stray Thoughts in Highgate Cemetery", and "How I Died".