PART I: SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS -- The Council of Four, Paris 1919 -- Lloyd George: A Fragment -- A Meeting of the Council of Three -- Andrew Bonar Law -- Herbert Asquith -- Edwin Montagou -- Arthur Balfour -- Winston Churchill -- Reginald McKenna -- The Great Villiers Connection -- Trotsky on England -- PART II: LIVES OF ECONOMISTS -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- William Stanley Jevons -- Alfred Marshall -- Mary Paley Marshall -- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth -- Herbert Somerton Foxwell -- Sir Henry Cunynghame -- Henry Higgs -- Alfred Hoare -- PART III: BREIF SKETCHES -- Wilhelm Lexis -- Frederic Hillersdon Keeling -- A. A. Tschuprow -- Benjamin Strong -- C. P. Sanger -- Walter Case -- George Broomhall -- Frederick Phillips -- PART IV: HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S -- Frank Ramsey -- A. F. R. Wollaston -- W. E. Johnson -- William Herrick Macaulay -- Dilwyn Knox -- Julian Bell -- PART V: TWO SCIENTISTS -- Newton, the Man -- Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton -- Einstein -- PART VI: TWO MEMOIRS -- Melchior: A Defeated Enemy -- My Early Beliefs