XI EVEN YET IT CAN'T BE TOLD--THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT D. H. LAWRENCE 256 XII THE JOY OF LIVING AND WRITING ABOUT IT: JOHN ST. LOE STRACHEY 289 XIII THE KING OF GATH UNTO HIS SERVANT: MAGAZINE INSANITY 307 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE JAMES JOYCE 37 FEODOR DOSTOIEVSKY 63 MARCEL PROUST IN 1890 119 A PAGE OF CORRECTED PROOF SHOWING MARCEL PROUST'S METHOD OF REVISION 127 KATHERINE MANSFIELD 153 REBECCA WEST 173 Photograph by _Yevonde, London_ STELLA BENSON 183 HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL 221 GEORGES DUHAMEL 239 From a Drawing by _Ivan Opffer_ in _THE BOOKMAN_ D. H. LAWRENCE 259 D. H. LAWRENCE 267 From a drawing by _Jan Juta_ J. ST. LOE STRACHEY 291 From a Drawing by _W. Rothenstein_ THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE CHAPTER I PSYCHOLOGY AND FICTION Few words attract us like the word psychology. It has the call of the unknown, the lure of the mysterious. It is used and heard so frequently that it has come to have a definite connotation, but the individual who is asked to say what it is finds it difficult either to be exact or exhaustive. Psychologists themselves experience similar difficulty. Psychology means the science of the soul, but we have no clearer conception of the soul today than Aristotle had when he wrote his treatise on it.