They are not speeches at all, but philosophical lucubrations, discussing in abstract terms the whole subject of the nature of patriotism and of Germany's right to exist as a nation.

We need more scientific investigations of the type of Mr. Havelock Ellis's admirable Studies in the Psychology of Sex and less of pseudo-scientific lucubrations like Otto Weininger's Sex and Character.

He had not touched these books for a long time, and the period was already remote when he had thrown with his waste paper the puerile lucubrations of the gloomy Pontmartin and the pitiful Feval; and long since he had given to his servants, for a certain vulgar usage, the short stories of Aubineau and Lasserre, in which are recorded wretched hagiographies of miracles effected by Dupont of Tours and by the Virgin.

We need more scientific investigations of the type of Mr. Havelock Ellis's admirable Studies in the Psychology of Sex and less of pseudo-scientific lucubrations like Otto Weininger's Sex and Character.

Mr. Beckford has at length been induced to publish his letters, in order to vindicate his own original claim to certain thoughts, images, and expressions, which had been adopted by other authors whom he had from time to time received beneath his roof, and indulged with a perusal of his secret lucubrations.

He had not read the voluminous lucubrations of the modern woman writer.