Sainte-Beuve, 267, 268, 270 Saintsbury, George, 42, 269 Sales, the, of novels, 59, 68, 131 Sampson, John, his edition of Blake, 18 Sargent, John, 95, 190 _Savoy_, the, 243 Scarborough, 227 Schuecking, Dr. Levin, 66 Scott, Sir Walter, 86, 105, 134, 139, 252 Scott-James, R.A., 295 Sculpture, proposal for an academy of, 234 Sea and Slaughter, 325-327 Season, the novel of the, 26 Seasons, bad publishing, 22, 68 Selincourt, Ernest de, his edition of Keats, 18 Series of reprints, cheap, 33 Sevenpenny novel, the, 72, 107, 130 Shakespeare, 19, 172, 318 Shaw, George Bernard, 84, 130, 195, 200, 291, 316, 317 Shelley, P.B., 172, 318 Shilling novels, 107 Short story, the, in England, 38, 84 Shorter, C.K., 26, 29, 42, 114, 188 Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 105 Sims, G.R., 126 Single lines, the, of Wordsworth, 18 Six-shilling novel, the, 22, 72, 131 Smith, Sir F.E., 78, 291 Nowell, his edition of Wordsworth, 18, 21 Smith, Reginald, 130 the Rt. Hon. W.F.D., 47 and Son, W.H., 88, 132 Smollett, Tobias, 192 "Societe du Mercure de France," the, 59 Sonnet, the, and the Epic, 87 _Sphere, see_ Shorter, C.K. Stacpoole, H. de Vere, 28 Stage Society, the Incorporated, 256, 321 State performances, lectures and, 315 Stationers' shops and books, 103 Stead, W.T., 295 Stendhal, 60, 96, 134, 211 Stephen, Sir Leslie, 19 Sterne, Laurence, 172 Stevenson, R.L., 37, 81, 86, 221, 252 Stock, M., the French publisher, 256, 260 _Strand Magazine_, the, 113 Strauss, Richard, 280 Style, English, 45 Success in Journalism, 300-304 Suppressions in "De Profundis," 217 Surrey labourer, the, 120 Swift, Jonathan, 172 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 22, 66, 123 Switzerland, 227 Symons, Arthur, 209 Synge, J.M., 63 Taine, 267, 270 Tchehkoff, Anton, 117, 141, 208, 225, 258, 321-324 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 84, 85, 103, 125, 126, 156 Thackeray, W.M., 134, 139, 315 Thurston, E. Temple, 290 _Times_, the, and the letters of Queen Victoria, 11 an article on Trollope in, 148 Book Club, 88, 315 _Literary Supplement_, 48, 266 Tolstoy, 117, 192, 208, 224 Tonnelat, M., on German colonial expansion, 30 Tourgeniev, 117, 208-213 Tree, Sir H. Beerbohm, 197 Trevena, John, 276 Trollope, Anthony, 134, 139, 148 Tunbridge Wells, 12 Ugliness in fiction, 8 Unclean books, 143 Unfinished perusals, 235 "Unpleasant" books, 97 Vachell, Horace Annesley, 97 Vallotton, Felix, 283 Verlaine, Paul, 28 Victoria, Queen, the Betters of, 11, 16, 68, 69 Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 129, 328 Vladimir, the Grand Duchess, 276 Walkley, A.B., 62, 140, 194, 222 Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 39, 47, 56, 65, 103, 130, 139, 206, 291 Wedgwood, A.F., 237 Wells, H.G., 61, 62, 78, 87, 94, 109-116, 123, 186, 192, 294-299, 313, 315 _Westminster Gazette_, the, 60, 69, 248 White, Gilbert, 84 W. Hale (Mark Rutherford), 94 Whitman's poems at the Mitchell Library, 102 Whitten, Wilfred (John o' London), 3 Wilde, Oscar, 66, 217, 317 Williams, Daniel, a bookseller, 12 _Woman's Journal_, the Boston, 193 Wordsworth, William, 18, 157 Wyman, Messrs., 132