INDEX

Academies, French and British, 81 Academy, the British, 228-234 Academy, the, under the editorship of Mr. Hind, 4, 19; under other controls, 38, 64 Advertisements, 300 Agents, literary, 22, 72 Aid, State, for the artist, 319 Albert, Henri, 78 Alexander, Sir George, 63 American postal censorship, 193 Anderson, Sir Robert, 193 Andreief, Léonide, 224 Anglo-Saxon, the, 243 Anthologies, 5 Antoine, director of the Odéon, 257, 259 Apoutkine, 225 Archer, William, 140 Aristophanes, 54 Arnold, Matthew, 19, 268 Art, the theory of, 283, 284 "Art of the short story," the, 86 "Artifex" reviews the Letters of Queen Victoria, 12 Artists, creative, 13, 158, 228 and critics, 158 as critics, 158, 283 and money, 242, 250-254 Asquith, H.H., 302 Athenæum, the, 68, 71; its review of "A Set of Six," 36, 332 Audoux, Marguerite, 305 Austin, Alfred, 325 Author, the, 130 Author, the, and the publisher, 13, 16, 17, 22, 33, 71, 204 Authors and gift-books, 68 Authors' Society, the, 130, 171, 233, 277, 291 Autobiography in fiction, 295 Ayscough, John, 28 Balfour, A.J., 82, 87, 291, 306 Balzac, 12, 134, 183, 252 Balzac, Prof. Saintsbury's introductions to the works of, 43, 183 Baring, Maurice, 208 Barker, H. Granville, 317 Barrès, Maurice, 82 Barrie, J.M., 5, 94 Barry, Dr. W.F., 143 Baudelaire, Charles, 16, 221 Bayle, Pierre, 267 Bazin, René, 65 Becque, Henri, 255-262, 323 Beerbohm, Max, 145 Bennett, James Gordon, 193 Benson, Arthur Christopher, 4, 11, 239-241 Berenson, Bernhard, 158 Bernhardt, Sarah, a caricature of, 79 Bernstein, Henri, 197 Beverley Fathers, the, and their library, 189 Bible, the, 172 Binyon, Mrs. Laurence, edits "Nineteenth-Century Prose," 5 Blackwood's Magazine, 325 Blake, William, 18, 314 Book in a railway accident, a, 328 Bookman, the, 5, 143 Book-buyer, the, 32, 71 Book-market, the, 133 Book-pedlar, the, 105 Books of the Year, 77, 289 Boot, Sir Jesse, 106, 173 Booth, E.C., "The Cliff End," by, 26 "Borgia!" a sensational novel, 226 Boston Libraries Censorship, the, 190 Bourne, George, 120 Bournemouth, 227 Bradley, A.C., 269 Bridges, Robert, 22, 63, 325 Brieux, 155, 195-200 British Academy of Letters, the, 228-234 British Weekly, see Nicoll, Sir W.R. Brontë, Charlotte and Emily, 42, 210 Browning, Robert, 126 Bunting, Sir Percy, 295 Caine, Hall, 56, 175, 206, 305 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 87 Cambridge University Press, 300 Capus, Alfred, 197 Carpenter, Edward, 22 Censorship by the libraries, 167, 181, 271 postal, in England and America, 193 Cézanne, 282 Chamberlain, Joseph, 137 Charity, the sale of books for, 68 Charmes, Francis, 81 Chavannes, Puvis de, 190 "Cherry Orchard, The," Tchehkoff's play, 321-324 Chesterton, G.K., 150-152 Christie, Manson, and Woods, 281 Christmas, the publishers', 73 Churchill, Winston, 291 Circulating libraries, the, 88 Classics, the reading of, 33 Clear, Claudius, see Nicoll, Sir W.R. Clemenceau, 61 Clifford, Dr. John, 196 Coleridge, S.T., 268 Collins, Arthur, 318 Collins J. Churton, 41, 269 Colonial expansion, German, 30 Comedians, stage, 63 Composition, the foundation of all arts, 27 Conductor, an orchestral, 43 Confessions, 77 Convention, literary, 118 Conrad, Joseph, 9, 27, 32, 36-40, 87, 94, 231, 238, 332 Corelli, Marie, 32, 47, 48, 49, 56, 103, 206, 305 Corroborative detail, 312 Criticism, English literary, 267 the, of artists, 158, 283 Critics, artists and, 158 newspaper, 26, 36 professorial, 41, 269 Crosland, T.W.H., 64 Cross, Donatella, 235 Crosse and Blackwell, Messrs. Curel, François de, 253 Daily Mail, the, 127, 138, 139 Daily News, the, 150, 295 Daily Telegraph, the, 306 Danby, Frank, 10 D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 235 Dante, 19 Darling, Mr. Justice, 12 Davies, W.H., 78, 325 Davray, Henry, 220 Debussy, Claude, 280 Defoe, Daniel, 172 Dehan, Richard (Clotilde Graves), 290 "De Profundis," suppressions in, 217 Dial, the, 243 Dialogue, novel, 311 Dickens, Charles, 105, 134, 139, 252 Dilettanti of letters, the, as a class, 229 Dilke, Sir Charles, 295 Dixie, Lady Florence, 193 Dobson, Austin, 270 Donnay, Maurice, 197 Dostoievsky, F.M., 117, 208-213, 216, 308 Douglas, Lord Alfred, 64, 325 James, 303 Drama in the novel, 311 Dumas fils, Alexandre, 200 "Ecce Homo," Nietzsche's, 77 Edinburgh Review, the, on "Ugliness in Fiction," 8 "Editions," French and English, 59 Eliot, George, 8, 135 Elton, Oliver, 269 Emerson, R.W., 190 "Encyclopædia Britannica, The," 300 English literary criticism, 267 English Review, the, 66, 145, 294 Epic, the, and the Sonnet, 87 Esher, Lord, 11 Factory Acts, the, 327 Fay, William, 63 "Fiction" and "literature," 328 Fiction, autobiography in, 295 ugliness in, 8 Fielding, Henry, 172, 192, 271 Flaubert, Gustave, 16, 212 Florio, John, 223 Fogazzaro, Antonio, 306 Forster, E.M., 292 Fortnightly Review, the, 193, 306, 325 France, Anatole, 59, 82, 232 Free library, the Municipal, 104 Frith, W.P., 210 Galsworthy, John, 9, 95, 184, 214-216, 317 Garvin, J.L., 291, 305 Gauguin, 282 Gaunt, Mary, 276 Gautier, Theophile, 139 George V, King, 317 Georges, Mlle., 99 German Colonial expansion, 30 Gide, André, 66, 155 Gift-Books, Royal, 68 Gil Blas, 259 Gilchrist, R. Murray, 87, 94, 117 Gladstone, Lord, 157 W.E., 51 Glasgow libraries, censorship in the, 192 Glyn, Elinor, 10, 271-277, 289 Goethe, 19 Gogol, 117, 208 Gorky, Maxim, 224 Gould, Jay, 193 Grahame, Kenneth, 57 Grosvenor library, the, 106 Hand, T.W., librarian at Leeds, 189 Hankin, St. John, 140 Hardy, Thomas, 8, 9, 87, 94, 96, 137, 172, 192, 267 Harland, Henry, 91 Harper's Magazine, 51 Harraden, Beatrice, 47 Harriman, 193 Havergal, Francis Ridley, 241 Hazlitt, William, 268 Heaton, Sir J. Henniker, 196 Heinemann, William, 169, 170 Herford, Prof. C.H., 84, 269 Hewlett, Maurice, 130 Hill, Rowland, 135 Hind, C. Lewis, as editor of the Academy, 4 Hocking, the brothers, 103 Holiday reading, 222 Holmes, O.W., 190 Hope, Anthony, 47, 130 Houssaye, Henry, 81 Hudson, W.H., 278 Hugo, Victor, 134, 155 Hull and the libraries Censorship, 185 Hull Daily Mail, the, 186, 187 Hutchinson, Sir G.T., 130, 169 Thomas, Wordsworthian researches of, 18 Ibsen, Henrik, 321, 323 l'Illustration, 260 Impressionistic Method, the, 37 Ingram, J.H., 84 Intimations of Immortality, 63 Irwin, Mabel McCoy, 194 Jacobs, W.W., and Aristophanes, 53, 94 James, Henry, 87, 95, 263-266 Jaurès, Jean, 61 John o' London, see Whitten, Wilfred Johnson, Lionel, 267 Journal, a report in the Paris, 223 des Débats, the, 81 Journalism, success in, 300-304 Keary, Peter, 188 Keats, John, 237 Kingsley, Charles, 105 Kipling, Rudyard, 55, 57, 94, 160-166 Knight, Prof. W., Wordsworthian researches of, 18 Labourer, the Surrey, 120 Lamb, Charles, 268 Lambert, Canon, 186 Lane, John, 120 Lang, Andrew, 51, 83, 114 Lansdowne, Lord, 306 Laprade, Pierre, 283 Lectures and State Performances, 315 Leasing, 159 Letters, the, of Queen Victoria, 11, 16, 68, 69 Libraries, 106 the circulating, 88 and their subscribers, 33 the, and "His Hour," 271 censorship by the, 167, 181, 271 Library, the Municipal Free, 104 Literary criticism, English, 267 Literary periodical, the, 242 Liverpool, 44 London, 160; and the Neo-Impressionists, 280 a book on, 3 the potential reading public of, 101 the Bishop of, 77 Longfellow, H.W., 190 Love poetry, 145 Lowell, J.R., 190 Lucas, E.V., 6, 150 Lucifer, an American journal, 193 Lytton, Lord (and "Money"), 316-319 Mackail, J.W., 270 Macmillan, Sir Frederick, 130 "Madame Bovary," terms of the publication of, 16 Madeleine, Jules de la, 16 Malet, Lucas, 331 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 65 "Man of Kent, A," see Nicoll, Sir W.R. Manchester, the potential reading public of, 101 Manchester Guardian, the, 47, 84, 237 Marjoram, J., 145 Masefield, John, 28, 311-314 Mason, Frederic, 77 Mathews, Elkin, 267 Matisse, 283 Maupassant, Guy de, 86, 117, 137, 252 Maxwell, W.B., 9, 27 Meyerfeld, Dr. Max, 217 Memoirs, books of scandalous, 98, 181 "Mercure de France, Société du," 59 Meredith, George, 87, 95, 134-139, 173, 227 Merrick, Leonard, 5, 94 Methuen, Sir A.M.S., 130 Middle-class, 89 Milton, 19, 20 Mitchell library, Whitman's poems at the, 192 Molière, 19 Money, artists and, 242, 250-254 "Money," a gala performance of, 316 Montague, C.E., 201-203 Montaigne, 222 Montenegro, the Queen of, 276 Moore, George, 8, 87, 94, 172, 176, 190 Morley, Lord, 22 Morning Post, the, 208 Mudie's, 33, 52, 88, 173, 174, 175 Municipal Free library, the, 104 Murray, John, action against the Times, 11, 16 Napoleon's mistresses, 99 Nation, the, 84 Nelson's Sevenpenny novels, 107, 130 Neo-Impressionism and literature, 281 Neolith, the, 243 New Age, the, 122, 246 "New Machiavelli, The," 294-299 New York, 160, 161 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 3 Nicoll, Sir William Robertson, 5, 26, 29, 67, 114, 222, 319 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 78 Norris, W.E., 49 Novel, a "literary," 331 a sexual, 271 dialogue and drama in the, 311 library censorship of the, 167, 181, 271 the sevenpenny, 72, 107, 130 the six-shilling, 22, 72, 131 the, ugliness in, 8 of the season, the, 26 Novels and short stories, a perennial discussion, 86 autobiography in, 295 shilling, 107 the length of, 248 the sales of, 68, 131 Novelists and agents, 22, 72 Nousanne, Henri de, 259, 260 Noyes, Alfred, 325 Numès, M., 259 Omar Khayyám, 84 Ospovat, Henry, 79 Pall Mall Gazette, the, 137 Paris, 155, 256 Pater, Walter, 227 Pedlars, book-, 105 Pemberton, Max, 103 Periodical, the literary 242 Persky, Serge, 224 Perusals, unfinished, 235-237 Phillpotts, Eden, 47, 87 Pinero, Sir A.W., 140 Play of Tchehkoff's, a, 321-324 Poe and the short story, 84 Poetry, love, 145 marine, 325 official recognition of, 155 Poets, contemporary, 63, 325 Post-Impressionists, see Neo-Impressionism Postal censorship, English and American, 193 Prices of books, the, 14, 130 Prose, the, of Wilfred Whitten, 3 Professors, 41, 269 Provinces, the potential reading public of the, 101 Public, the, 88 a publisher on "the public," 204 disdain of artists for the public, 243 the characteristics of the middle-class public, "the backbone," 88-94 treatment of this class by contemporary novelists, 94-96 unreadiness of this class to be pleased, 97 explanation of its concern with fiction, 98 the potential public in the industrial Midlands, 101 trade failure to cater for this public, 102-104 the Free Libraries, 104 the book-pedlar, 105 cheap editions, 107 the sections composed of dilettanti, 229 "right people," 291, 294 as book-buyers, 32 Publishers' Association, the, and Library Censorship, 169, 277 Publishers and authors, 204-207 English and French, compared, 17 their place in literature, 13 profits, 11, 16, 72, 182 Publishing seasons, bad, 22, 26, 68 Punch, 143 Putney, the High Street, 123 Quiller-Couch, Sir A.T., 55, 87 Railway accident, a book in a, 328 Raleigh, Prof. Sir Walter, 44, 238, 269 Reading on holiday, 222 Realism, the progress towards, 118; Russian realism, 208 Rembrandt, 281 Reprints, cheap, 33 Reviewers, 26, 36 Revue des Deux Mondes, the, 81 Reynolds, Stephen, 78, 120 Richards, Grant, 26 Richardson, Frank, 109 Samuel, 139, 172, 192 "Rita," 51 Robaglia, M., 259 Rockefeller, J.D., 193 Rodin's statue of Hugo, 156 Rosebery, Lord, 250 Ross, Robert, 217 Rossetti, D.G., 172 Roussel, 283 Rouveyre's caricature of Bernhardt, 79 Royal Academy, the, 234. Russian fiction and drama, 117, 141, 208-213, 224, 321 Rutherford, Mark, 94 Sainte-Beuve, 267, 268, 270 Saintsbury, George, 42, 269 Sales, the, of novels, 59, 68, 131 Sampson, John, his edition of Blake, 18 Sargent, John, 95, 190 Savoy, the, 243 Scarborough, 227 Schücking, Dr. Levin, 66 Scott, Sir Walter, 86, 105, 134, 139, 252 Scott-James, R.A., 295 Sculpture, proposal for an academy of, 234 Sea and Slaughter, 325-327 Season, the novel of the, 26 Seasons, bad publishing, 22, 68 Sélincourt, Ernest de, his edition of Keats, 18 Series of reprints, cheap, 33 Sevenpenny novel, the, 72, 107, 130 Shakespeare, 19, 172, 318 Shaw, George Bernard, 84, 130, 195, 200, 291, 316, 317 Shelley, P.B., 172, 318 Shilling novels, 107 Short story, the, in England, 38, 84 Shorter, C.K., 26, 29, 42, 114, 188 Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 105 Sims, G.R., 126 Single lines, the, of Wordsworth, 18 Six-shilling novel, the, 22, 72, 131 Smith, Sir F.E., 78, 291 Nowell, his edition of Wordsworth, 18, 21 Smith, Reginald, 130 the Rt. Hon. W.F.D., 47 and Son, W.H., 88, 132 Smollett, Tobias, 192 "Société du Mercure de France," the, 59 Sonnet, the, and the Epic, 87 Sphere, see Shorter, C.K. Stacpoole, H. de Vere, 28 Stage Society, the Incorporated, 256, 321 State performances, lectures and, 315 Stationers' shops and books, 103 Stead, W.T., 295 Stendhal, 60, 96, 134, 211 Stephen, Sir Leslie, 19 Sterne, Laurence, 172 Stevenson, R.L., 37, 81, 86, 221, 252 Stock, M., the French publisher, 256, 260 Strand Magazine, the, 113 Strauss, Richard, 280 Style, English, 45 Success in Journalism, 300-304 Suppressions in "De Profundis," 217 Surrey labourer, the, 120 Swift, Jonathan, 172 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 22, 66, 123 Switzerland, 227 Symons, Arthur, 209 Synge, J.M., 63 Taine, 267, 270 Tchehkoff, Anton, 117, 141, 208, 225, 258, 321-324 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 84, 85, 103, 125, 126, 156 Thackeray, W.M., 134, 139, 315 Thurston, E. Temple, 290 Times, the, and the letters of Queen Victoria, 11 an article on Trollope in, 148 Book Club, 88, 315 Literary Supplement, 48, 266 Tolstoy, 117, 192, 208, 224 Tonnelat, M., on German colonial expansion, 30 Tourgeniev, 117, 208-213 Tree, Sir H. Beerbohm, 197 Trevena, John, 276 Trollope, Anthony, 134, 139, 148 Tunbridge Wells, 12 Ugliness in fiction, 8 Unclean books, 143 Unfinished perusals, 235 "Unpleasant" books, 97 Vachell, Horace Annesley, 97 Vallotton, Félix, 283 Verlaine, Paul, 28 Victoria, Queen, the Betters of, 11, 16, 68, 69 Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 129, 328 Vladimir, the Grand Duchess, 276 Walkley, A.B., 62, 140, 194, 222 Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 39, 47, 56, 65, 103, 130, 139, 206, 291 Wedgwood, A.F., 237 Wells, H.G., 61, 62, 78, 87, 94, 109-116, 123, 186, 192, 294-299, 313, 315 Westminster Gazette, the, 60, 69, 248 White, Gilbert, 84 W. Hale (Mark Rutherford), 94 Whitman's poems at the Mitchell Library, 102 Whitten, Wilfred (John o' London), 3 Wilde, Oscar, 66, 217, 317 Williams, Daniel, a bookseller, 12 Woman's Journal, the Boston, 193 Wordsworth, William, 18, 157 Wyman, Messrs., 132 Yeats, W.B., 63, 325 Yellow Book, the, 243 Yonge, Charlotte M., 8, 105, 136, 210 Zangwill, Israel, 311 Zola, Emile, 59, 208

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