PART I: SOME ENGLISH CLASSICS

1. Tom Jones 15
2. Wuthering Heights 25
3. Charles Lamb 32
4. James Boswell 35
5. William Hazlitt 38
6. Samuel Pepys 41
7. Walter Savage Landor 44
8. John Donne 51
9. Such a Book as The Beggar's Opera 58

PART II: SOME CONTEMPORARIES

1. George Santayana 65
2. The Poems of Francis Brett-Young 76
3. The Poems of Iris Tree 81
4. The Poems of Aldous Huxley 88
5. The Poems of Robert Graves 97
6. J. D. Beresford 101
7. Night and Day 105
8. E. C. Booth 112
9. Ford Madox Hueffer 126
10. The Ballad of the White Horse 139
11. E. M. Forster 152
12. Sheila Kaye-Smith 157

PART III: BOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1. A History of Modern Colloquial English 171
2. The Romance of Words 179
3. The Romance of Names 182
4. The English Language 185

PART IV: CERTAIN FOREIGNERS

1. Montaigne 191
2. Nekrassov 211
3. Pushkin 226
4. LÈrmontov 241
5. Gogol 258
6. Turgenev 263
7. Goncharov 270
8. Dostoievsky 274
9. Tolstoy 284
10. Tchekov 292