E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/criticalgame00macy THE CRITICAL GAME by JOHN MACY Author of "The Spirit of American Literature," etc. Boni and Liveright Publishers New York Copyright, 1922, by Boni and Liveright, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. To ROGER IRVING LEE CONTENTS Page The Critical Game 11 Dante in English 31 Dante's Political Philosophy 43 Nietzsche 55 Tolstoy 65 Maeterlinck's Essays 95 Joseph Conrad 105 A Conrad Miscellany 123 Strindberg 135 Tagore 145 Remy de Gourmont 153 Swift's Relations with Women 163 William James, Man of Letters 175 Biographies of Poe 193 Biographies of Whitman 203 George E. Woodberry 215 Abraham Cahan 227 Thomas Hardy 237 George Borrow 247 Shelley 259 H. G. Wells and Utopia 269 John Masefield 279 Shakespeare and the Scribes 289 George Moore and Other Irish Writers 305 James Joyce 317 D. H. Lawrence 325 THE CRITICAL GAME