Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays

This book is composed of some truly interesting essays but at the same time there's a bunch of totally skippable ones. And, sadly, the skippable ones are way longer and make for majority of the book.

Essays desserving 5 stars:
A Hanging
Benefit of Clergy (Some Notes on Salvador Dali)
How the Poor Die
Notes on Nationalism
Why I Write

Essays you can totally skip or die of boredom:
Decline of the English Murder
Rudyard Kipling
Raffles and Miss Blandish
Charles Dickens
The Art of Donald McGill

As such I can't give more than three stars. It's still worth a read, though. Especially Notes on Nationalism. That subject is once again in public's eye.