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PERSONALITY IN LITERATURE

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

MODERNISM AND ROMANCE

PERSONALITY
IN LITERATURE

BY R.A. SCOTT-JAMES

LONDON: MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI

_First published 1913_

WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH.

CONTENTS

PART ONE: LITERATURE AND ART
PAGE
THE DEGRADATION OF BEAUTY 3

LITERATURE A FINE ART 14

PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT 42

THE POPULAR TASTE 55

PART TWO: LITERATURE AND MODERN LIFE

TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY 81

PROFESSIONAL POLITICS 96

SPECIALISM IN RELIGION 103

SPECIALISM IN WAR 109

SPECIALISM IN LITERATURE 115

PHILOSOPHY AND JUSTICE 121

PART THREE: LITERATURE AND MEN

BERNARD SHAW 131

H.G. WELLS 151

ARNOLD BENNETT 170

GILBERT CHESTERTON 187

SOME MODERN POETS 196

J.M. SYNGE 222

THE SHRAMANA EKAI KAWAGUCHI 226

FRANCIS THOMPSON 235