书前语 1
1 Dreamthorp/Alexander Smith 1
注释 4
梦屯 6
2 AEs Triplex/Robert Louis Stevenson 10
注释 19
死生之际(原名“三重甲”) 23
3 Impressions and Comments(Ⅰ)/Henry Havelock Ellis 34
1) Two Styles of Writing 34
2) The Delight of Mirrors 35
注释 37
杂评二则 40
1)两种风格 40
2)镜之乐 41
4 On Laughter/Hilaire Belloc 44
注释 48
论笑声 53
5 On Thinking/Hilaire Belloc 59
注释 63
思想小议 66
6 On Conversations in Trains/Hilaire Belloc 71
注释 76
列车上的交谈 80
7 The Fire/Max Beerbohm 86
注释 94
火呀 97
8 William and Mary/Max Beerbohm 106
注释 118
威廉与玛丽 121
9 Leisure While You Wait/Samuel McChord Crothers 135
注释 142
说闲(原名:闲暇,稍候就来) 147
10 Authorship/Arthur Christopher Benson 155
注释 167
写作谈 171
11 The Art of the Essayist/Arthur Christopher Benson 183
注释 193
散文作者的艺术 196
12 A Fellow-traveler/Alfred George Gardiner 208
注释 211
旅伴 213
13 Bed-books and Night-lights/Henry Major Tomlinson 217
注释 222
枕边书与床头灯 227
14 The Master/Henry Major Tomlinson 234
注释 238
船长 240
15 Why a Classic is a Classic/Arnold Bennett 245
注释 249
经典之所以为经典的原因 252
16 Preface to The Story of the World’s Literature/John Macy 257
注释 262
《世界文学史话》自序 265
17 Sunday Before the War/A. Clutton-Brock 271
注释 273
战前的星期天 275
18 Fear/Robert Lynd 278
注释 284
怕 287
19 How I Learned to Write(Ⅰ) /William SomersetMaugham 294
注释 296
学写作(上) 298
20 How I Learned to Write(Ⅱ) /William SomersetMaugham 301
注释 303
学写作(下) 306
补编 311
21 Artists and Critics/Oscar Wilde 311
注释 312
艺术家与批评家 315
22 Homeopathic Education/George Bernard Shaw 317
注释 318
顺势疗法教育 321
23 Racine/Giles Lytton Strachey 323
注释 324
拉辛 326
24 Walpole/Frank Swinnerton 327
注释 328
沃波耳 331
25 Books and Readers/F. A. Pritchard 333
注释 334
书与读者 337
26 A Translator Is Differently Situated/John Stuart Blackie 339
注释 341
翻译者的处境有所不同 343
27 Appreciation and Criticism/James Reeves 345
注释 346
鉴赏与批评 348
28 Pleasure/Bertrand Russell 350
注释 351
乐趣 353
29 Affection/Bertrand Russell 354
注释 355
爱 357
30 Why We Hate Insects/Robert Lynd 359
注释 360
为什么我们讨厌昆虫 361
31 The Rise of Semantics/Stephen Ulmann 362
注释 364
语义学的兴起 367
本书作者简介 369
补编中作者简介 371
译后记 373