VIEWS AND REVIEWS
PREFATORY
DICKENS
A ‘Frightful Minus’
His Method.
His Development.
His Results.
Ave atque Vale.
THACKERAY
His Worshippers.
His Critics.
Which is Right?
His Style.
His Mission.
DISRAELI
His Novels.
A Contrast.
His Backgrounds.
His Men and Women.
His Oratory.
His Speeches as Literature.
The Great Earl.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
His Components.
Himself.
At Least.
His Monument.
GEORGE MEREDITH
His Qualities.
His Defects.
Another Way.
Rhoda Fleming.
The Tragic Comedians.
The Egoist.
In Metre.
The Fashion of Art.
BYRON
Byron and the World.
Byron and Wordsworth.
HUGO
Some Causes and Effects.
Environment.
Equipment and Achievement.
His Diary.
For and Against.
What Lives of Him.
HEINE
The Villainy Translation.
The Proof of It.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
His Verse.
His Failure.
His Triumphs.
His Prose.
HOMER AND THEOCRITUS
The Odyssey.
The Idylls.
Old Lamps and New.
RABELAIS
His Essence.
His Secret.
SHAKESPEARE
A Parallel.
SIDNEY
His Expression of Life.
His Fame.
TOURNEUR
His Matter.
WALTON
The Compleat Angler.
Master Piscator.
HERRICK
His Muse.
His Moral.
His Piety.
LOCKER
His Effect.
BANVILLE
His Nature.
His Art.
DOBSON
Method and Effect.
BERLIOZ
The Critic.
A Prototype.
His Theory of Autobiography.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Ideal.
The Real.
Appreciations.
BORROW
His Vocation.
Ideals and Achievements.
BALZAC
Under which King?
The Fact.
LABICHE
Teniers or Daumier?
Labiche.
CHAMPFLEURY
The Man.
The Writer.
LONGFELLOW
Sea Poets.
Longfellow.
TENNYSON
St. Agnes’ Eve.
Indian Summer.
His Mastership.
GORDON HAKE
Aim and Equipment.
LANDOR
Anti-Landor.
His Drama.
HOOD
How Much of Him?
Death’s Jest-Book.
His Immortal Part.
LEVER
How He Lived.
What He Was.
How He Wrote.
JEFFERIES
His Virtue.
His Limitation.
The General.
Last Words.
GAY
The Fabulist.
The Moralist.
After All.
ESSAYS AND ESSAYISTS
The Good of Them.
Generalities.
In Particular.
BOSWELL
His Destiny.
His Critic.
CONGREVE
His Biographers and Critics.
The Real Congreve.
The Dramatist.
ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
Its Romance.
Its Comedy.
Sacer Vates.
RICHARDSON
His Fortune.
Pamela.
Grandison.
Clarissa.
TOLSTOÏ
The Man and the Artist.
Ivan Iliitch.
War and Peace.
FIELDING
Illusions.
Facts.
The Worst of It.
