| Table of Contents | |
| Section | Page |
| Start of eBook | 1 |
| CHAUCER | 1 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 12 |
| SHAKESPEARE’S LYRICS | 15 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 19 |
| SAMUEL DANIEL | 19 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 23 |
| WILLIAM BROWNE | 23 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 26 |
| THOMAS CAREW | 26 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 34 |
| LAWRENCE STERNE | 35 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 40 |
| SCOTT AND BURNS | 40 |
| CHARLES READE | 49 |
| HENRY KINGSLEY | 52 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 56 |
| ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE | 56 |
| C.S.C. and J.K.S. | 58 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 61 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | 61 |
| M. ZOLA | 75 |
| SELECTION | 78 |
| EXTERNALS | 80 |
| CLUB TALK | 87 |
| EXCURSIONISTS IN POETRY | 90 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 92 |
| THE POPULAR CONCEPTION OF A POET | 92 |
| POETS ON THEIR OWN ART | 96 |
| Poetry not mere Metrical Composition | 98 |
| THE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC TOWARDS LETTERS | 99 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 104 |
| A CASE OF BOOKSTALL CENSORSHIP | 105 |
| THE POOR LITTLE PENNY DREADFUL | 109 |
| IBSEN’S “PEER GYNT” | 111 |
| MR. SWINBURNE’S LATER MANNER | 117 |
| A MORNING WITH A BOOK | 120 |
| MR. JOHN DAVIDSON | 122 |
| BJOERNSTERNE BJOERNSON | 129 |
| MR. GEORGE MOORE | 133 |
| MRS. MARGARET L. WOODS | 136 |
| FOOTNOTES: | 143 |
| MR. HALL CAINE | 143 |
| MR. ANTHONY HOPE | 147 |
| MR. STOCKTON | 152 |
| BOW-WOW | 155 |
| OF SEASONABLE NUMBERS: | 157 |

