SYNOPSIS
ILLUSTRATIONS
NATURA BENIGNA
Introduction
Chapter I THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER
Chapter II COWSLIP COUNTRY
Chapter III THE CRITIC IN THE BUD
Chapter IV CHARACTERS IN THE MICROCOSM
Chapter V EARLY GLIMPSES OF THE GYPSIES
Chapter VI SPORT AND WORK
Chapter VII EAST ANGLIA
Chapter VIII LONDON
Chapter IX GEORGE BORROW
Chapter X THE ACTED DRAMA
Chapter X DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Chapter XII WILLIAM MORRIS
Chapter XIII THE 'EXAMINER'
Chapter XIV THE 'ATHENAEUM'
Chapter XV THE GREAT BOOK OF WONDER
Chapter XVI A HUMOURIST UPON HUMOUR
Chapter XVII 'THE LIFE POETIC'
Chapter XVIII AMERICAN FRIENDS: LOWELL, BRET HARTE, AND OTHERS
Chapter XIX WALES
Chapter XX IMAGINATIVE AND DIDACTIC PROSE
Chapter XXI THE METHODS OF PROSE FICTION
Chapter XXII A STORY WITH TWO HEROINES
Chapter XXIII THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER IN RELIGION
Chapter XXIV THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER IN HUMOUR
Chapter XXV GORGIOS AND ROMANIES
Chapter XXVI 'THE COMING OF LOVE'
Chapter XXVII "CHRISTMAS AT THE 'MERMAID'"
Chapter XXVIII CONCLUSION
Index
FOOTNOTES
Theodore Watts-Dunton, from a painting by Miss H. B. Norris
POET NOVELIST CRITIC
BY JAMES DOUGLAS
Decorative graphic, Natura Benigna
WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27 PATERNOSTER ROW
1904
