They appear as they were journalistically
written in Paris, London, Switzerland, and the Forest of Fontainebleau.
In particular I have left the critical judgments alone, for the good
reason that I stand by nearly all of them, though perhaps with a less
challenging vivacity, to this day.
ARNOLD BENNETT
_February 1917_
CONTENTS
1908
WILFRED WHITTEN'S PROSE 3
UGLINESS IN FICTION 8
LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA 11
FRENCH PUBLISHERS 16
WORDSWORTH'S SINGLE LINES 18
NOVELISTS AND AGENTS 22
THE NOVEL OF THE SEASON 26
GERMAN EXPANSION 30
THE BOOK-BUYER 32
JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE _ATHENAEUM_ 36
THE PROFESSORS 41
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD'S HEROINES 47
W.W. JACOBS AND ARISTOPHANES 53
KENNETH GRAHAME 57
ANATOLE FRANCE 59
INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY 63
MALLARME, BAZIN, SWINBURNE 65
THE RUINED SEASON 68
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"ECCE HOMO" 77
HENRY OSPOVAT 79
FRENCH AND BRITISH ACADEMIES 81
POE AND THE SHORT STORY 84
MIDDLE-CLASS 88
THE POTENTIAL PUBLIC 101
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