E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) POT-BOILERS by CLIVE BELL London Chatto & Windus MCMXVIII Printed at the Complete Press West Norwood London CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD 1 MONTAIGNE IN FACSIMILE 17 IBSEN 28 MISS COLERIDGE 41 PEACOCK 50 BOSWELL'S LETTERS 74 CARLYLE'S LOVES AND LOVE-LETTERS 82 THE LYSISTRATA 99 TRELAWNY'S LETTERS 115 SOPHOCLES IN LONDON 126 THE FLIGHT OF THE DRAGON 135 WILLIAM MORRIS 146 PERSIAN MINIATURES 156 COUNTERCHECK QUARRELSOME 165 PICTURE SHOWS: I. THE LONDON SALON 174 II. ENGLISH POST-IMPRESSIONISTS 179 III. AN EXPENSIVE "MASTERPIECE" 188 IV. MARCHAND 194 V. THE MANSARD GALLERY 199 CONTEMPORARY ART IN ENGLAND 209 ART AND WAR 231 BEFORE THE WAR 247 FOREWORD