ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Reading edition
The author wishes to express his thanks to the editors of the North American Review, the New York Times and the Literary Digest International Book Review for permission to elaborate material used by them into certain chapters of this volume.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I Psychology and Fiction 15
II Ireland's Latest Literary Antinomian: James Joyce 35
III Feodor Dostoievsky: Tragedist, Prophet, and Psychologist 61
IV Dorothy Richardson and Her Censor 96
V Marcel Proust: Master Psychologist and Pilot of the “Vraie Vie” 116
VI Two Literary Ladies of London: Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West 151
VII Two Lesser Literary Ladies of London: Stella Benson and Virginia Woolf 181
VIII The Psychology of the Diarist: W. N. T. Barbellion 191
IX The Psychology of the Diarist: Henri-Frédéric Amiel 219
X Georges Duhamel: Poet, Pacifist, and Physician 237
XI Even Yet It Can't Be Told—the Whole Truth about D. H. Lawrence 256
XII The Joy of Living and Writing about It: John St. Loe Strachey 289
XIII The King of Gath unto His Servant: Magazine Insanity 307
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
JAMES JOYCE 37
FEODOR DOSTOIEVSKY 63
MARCEL PROUST IN 1890 119
A PAGE OF CORRECTED PROOF SHOWING MARCEL PROUST'S METHOD OF REVISION 127
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 153
REBECCA WEST Photograph by Yevonde, London 173
STELLA BENSON 183
HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL 221
GEORGES DUHAMEL From a Drawing by Ivan Opffer in THE BOOKMAN 239
D. H. LAWRENCE 259
D. H. LAWRENCE From a drawing by Jan Juta 267
J. ST. LOE STRACHEY From a Drawing by W. Rothenstein 291
THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE
THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE