143
LOVE POETRY 145
TROLLOPE'S METHODS 148
CHESTERTON AND LUCAS 150
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF POETRY 155
ARTISTS AND CRITICS 158
RUDYARD KIPLING 160
CENSORSHIP BY THE LIBRARIES 167

1910

CENSORSHIP BY THE LIBRARIES 181
BRIEUX 195
C.E. MONTAGUE 201
PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS 204
TOURGENIEV AND DOSTOIEVSKY 208
JOHN GALSWORTHY 214
SUPPRESSIONS IN "DE PROFUNDIS" 217
HOLIDAY READING 222
THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF LETTERS 228
UNFINISHED PERUSALS 235
MR. A.C. BENSON 239
THE LITERARY PERIODICAL 242
THE LENGTH OF NOVELS 248
ARTISTS AND MONEY 250
HENRI BECQUE 255
HENRY JAMES 263
ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM 267
MRS. ELINOR GLYN 271
W.H. HUDSON 278
NEO-IMPRESSIONISM AND LITERATURE 280

1911

BOOKS OF THE YEAR 289
"THE NEW MACHIAVELLI" 294
SUCCESS IN JOURNALISM 300
MARGUERITE AUDOUX 305
JOHN MASEFIELD 311
LECTURES AND STATE PERFORMANCES 315
A PLAY OF TCHEHKOFF'S 321
SEA AND SLAUGHTER 325
A BOOK IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT 328
"FICTION" AND "LITERATURE" 331

INDEX 333

1908

WILFRED WHITTEN'S PROSE

[_4 Apr. '08_]

An important book on an important town is to be issued by Messrs. Methuen.
The town is London, and the author Mr. Wilfred Whitten, known to
journalism as John o' London. Considering that he comes from
Newcastle-on-Tyne (or thereabouts), his pseudonym seems to stretch a
point. However, Mr. Whitten is now acknowledged as one of the foremost
experts in London topography. He is not an archaeologist, he is a
humanist--in a good dry sense; not the University sense, nor the silly
sense. The word "human" is a dangerous word; I am rather inclined to
handle it with antiseptic precautions. When a critic who has risen high
enough to be allowed to sign his reviews in a daily paper calls a new book
"a