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1 Egdon Heath Thomas Hardy 1
2 Birds William Henry Hudson 9
3 A Practical Study of Languages Henry Sweet 16
4 A Handful of Clay Henry van Dyke 26
5 Tolstoi’s Theory of Art Lafcadio Hearn 33
6 The Dramatic Critic George Bernard Shaw 42
7 Every Man’s Natural Desire to be Somebody Else Samuel McChord Crothers 50
8 Shakespeare’s Island George Gissing 56
9 On Education Alfred North Whitehead 59
10 Style Walter Raleigh 66
11 Tendencies in Modern Fiction Edith Wharton 73
12 The Rose Logan Pearsall Smith 80
13 My First Flight Herbert George Wells 87
14 The Faculty of Delight Charles Edward Montague 95
15 Fog G．S．Street 99
16 Expressing One’s Individuality Arnold Bennet 106
17 Death of Aunt Ann John Galsworthy 114
18 Dancers John Galsworthy 120
19 Meditations Among the Cages Edward Verrall Lucas 125
20 The Windmill Edward Verrall Lucas 137
21 On Lucidity Hilaire Belloc 141
22 Scarcity and Plenty Theodore Dreiser 150
23 Ouida Max Beerbohm 160
24 The Golden Drugget Max Beerbohm 164
25 Two Histories Carl Becker 170
26 Fact and Fiction William Somerset Maugham 176
27 Letter to Herbert E．Palmer Edward John Dunsany 181
28 The Writing of English Henry Seidel Canby 185
29 On Being a Bore Robert Lynd 191
30 The Englishman Edward Morgan Forster 198
31 Balzac Giles Lytton Strachey 201
32 Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son Virginia Woolf 208
33 The War Babies Are Growing Up Hugh Walpole 215
34 Beauty and Adventure Rose Macaulay 223
35 Sound and Fury Rose Macaulay 229
36 A Preface to the Profession of Journalism Christopher Morley 233
37 At Sea Aldous Huxley 243
38 First Snow John Boynton Priestley 250
39 October Lake Herbert Ernest Bates 256