| PAGE | | Preface: On Fluctuations of Taste | 1 | | The Shepherd of the Ocean | 13 | | The Songs of Shakespeare | 29 | | Catharine Trotter, the Precursor of the Bluestockings | 37 | | The Message of the Wartons | 63 | | The Charm of Sterne | 91 | | The Centenary of Edgar Allen Poe | 101 | | The Author of "Pelham" | 115 | | The Challenge of the BrontËs | 139 | | Disraeli's Novels | 151 | | Three Experiments in Portraiture— | | | I. Lady Dorothy Nevill | 181 | | II. Lord Cromer | 196 | | III. The Last Days of Lord Redesdale | 216 | | The Lyrical Poetry of Thomas Hardy | 231 | | Some Soldier Poets | 259 | | The Future of English Poetry | 287 | | The Agony of the Victorian Age | 311 | | Index | 338 |
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