E., 49
Novel, a "literary," 331
a sexual, 271
dialogue and drama in the, 311
library censorship of the, 167, 181, 271
the sevenpenny, 72, 107, 130
the six-shilling, 22, 72, 131
the, ugliness in, 8
of the season, the, 26
Novels and short stories, a perennial discussion, 86
autobiography in, 295
shilling, 107
the length of, 248
the sales of, 68, 131
Novelists and agents, 22, 72
Nousanne, Henri de, 259, 260
Noyes, Alfred, 325
Numes, M., 259
Omar Khayyam, 84
Ospovat, Henry, 79
_Pall Mall Gazette_, the, 137
Paris, 155, 256
Pater, Walter, 227
Pedlars, book-, 105
Pemberton, Max, 103
Periodical, the literary 242
Persky, Serge, 224
Perusals, unfinished, 235-237
Phillpotts, Eden, 47, 87
Pinero, Sir A.W., 140
Play of Tchehkoff's, a, 321-324
Poe and the short story, 84
Poetry, love, 145
marine, 325
official recognition of, 155
Poets, contemporary, 63, 325
Post-Impressionists, _see_ Neo-Impressionism
Postal censorship, English and American, 193
Prices of books, the, 14, 130
Prose, the, of Wilfred Whitten, 3
Professors, 41, 269
Provinces, the potential reading public of the, 101
Public, the, 88
a publisher on "the public," 204
disdain of artists for the public, 243
the characteristics of the middle-class public, "the backbone," 88-94
treatment of this class by contemporary novelists, 94-96
unreadiness of this class to be pleased, 97
explanation of its concern with fiction, 98
the potential public in the industrial Midlands, 101
trade failure to cater for this public, 102-104
the Free Libraries, 104
the book-pedlar, 105
cheap editions, 107
the sections composed of dilettanti, 229
"right people," 291, 294
as book-buyers, 32
Publishers' Association, the, and Library Censorship, 169, 277
Publishers and authors, 204-207
English and French, compared, 17
their place in literature, 13
profits, 11, 16, 72, 182
Publishing seasons, bad, 22, 26, 68
_Punch_, 143
Putney, the High Street, 123
Quiller-Couch, Sir A.
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