PAGE PREFACE 5 FONTENELLE 15 BIOGRAPHY 16 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS 17 CRITICS BEWARE 20 HENRY JAMES 22 TURGENEV 27 PLOTINUS 29 THE NEW EUROPE 31 THE FASHION OF ANTI-PURITANISM 32 POPULAR PHILOSOPHY 34 WAS CARLYLE PRUSSIAN? 36 IS NIETZSCHE FOR GERMANY? 37 NIETZSCHE IN FRAGMENTS 38 THE END OF FICTION 41 THE CRITERIA OF CULTURE 42 THE FATE OF SCULPTURE 45 THE TOO CLEVER 46 HOMAGE TO PROPERTIUS 49 MR. POUND AND MR. WYNDHAM LEWIS IN PUBLIC 52 MR. EZRA POUND AS METRICIST 57 MR. EZRA POUND ON RELIGION 60 MR. POUND, CARICATURIST 62 THE ADMIRABLE VICTORIANS 63 FRENCH CLARTÉ 65 WHEN SHALL WE TRANSLATE? 66 NATURE IN MIND 68 MR. CLIVE BELL’S POT 70 THE CRITICISM OF POETS 73 “JOHN EGLINTON” 74 IRISH HUMOUR 75 THE LITERARY DRAMA OF IRELAND 76 MR. STANDISH O’GRADY 79 MR. STANDISH O’GRADY, ENCHANTER 80 LES SENTIMENTS DE JULIEN BENDA 81 CONVALESCENCE AFTER NEWSPAPER 82 NATURE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 88 S.S.S. 90 STERNE CRITICISM 92 STERNE ON LOVE IN FRANCE 94 ENGLISH STYLE 95 LITERARY CULS-DE-SAC 98 THE DECLINE OF FREE INTELLIGENCE 98 LITERARY COPYRIGHT IN AMERICA 103 RIGHT CRITICISM 109 MAN’S SURVIVAL OF BODILY DEATH 111 BEARDSLEY AND ARTHUR SYMONS 115 “Æ’S” “CANDLE OF VISION” 117 HOW TO READ 134 THE OLD COUNTRY 135 LOOKING FOR THE DAWN 136 FIELDING FOR AMERICA 139 POOR AUTHORS! 140 ON GUARD 143 THE COMING RENAISSANCE 145 LEONARDO DA VINCI AS PIONEER 147