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The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920

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AMERICA, A Letter from, 232 Bibliographical Notes, 73, 194, 325, 458, 581, 718

BIBLIOGRAPHIES of Modern Authors: Beerbohm, Max, 626 Belloc, Hilaire, 366 Bridges, Robert Seymour, 753 Brooke, Rupert, 123 Chesterton, G. K., 496 Clutton-Brock, Arthur, 366 Davies, W. H., 122 De La Mare, Walter, 122 Flecker, James Elroy, 239 Freeman, John, 497 Hardy, Thomas, 122 Hewlett, Maurice, 625 Meynell, Alice, 754 Saintsbury, George, 238 Book Production Notes, 231, 359, 495, 621, 752 Books of the Month, 78, 201, 332, 468, 593, 727

Correspondence, 77, 198, 329, 462, 585, 721

DRAMA, The: Calvinists of the Drama, The, 112 Candida, 755 Children's Plays, 498 Demand and Supply, 501 Duchess of Malfi, The, 368 Grierson's Way, 755 Intellectual Drama, The, 241 John Ferguson, 755 Living Corpse, A, 111 Marriage à la Mode, 627 Materialism and Poetry, 242 Medea, 755 Miniature Ballet, 755 Pantomime, The Change in the, 499 Poetic Drama, The, 240 Pygmalion, 755 Theatre, The Influence of the Existing, 113 Three Sisters, The, 755 Young Visiters, The, 755

EDITORIAL NOTES: American Copyright, 131, 389 Art, Ugliness, and Incomprehensibility, 385 Auction Room Knock-Out, The, 516 Literature of 1919, The, and the Prospects of Literature, 257 Ministry of Fine Arts, A, 513 National Theatre, The, 641 Objects of the London Mercury, 1, 129

FINE ARTS, The: Black Country, The, 634 Comic Drawing, British, 373 Epstein, Recent Sculpture by Jacob, 633 Fine Arts, The, 116 Goupil Gallery Salon, 375 Grant, Paintings by Duncan, 634 Group-making and Group-breaking, 245 London Group, The, 247 Matisse, M. Henri, 374 Meaning of Impressionism, The, 759 National Gallery, The, 632 Nevinson's Exhibition, Mr., 246 New English Art Club, The, 504 Renoir, Auguste, 759 War Pictures at Burlington House, 503

FRANCE, A LETTER FROM: The Present State of the French Novel, 105 The French Poetry of To-day, 360 The Young Reviews, 622

Learned Societies, etc., 108, 235, 363, 465, 590, 724

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE: Andreef, Leonid, Death of, 136 Bullen, A. H., Death of, 647 Burne-Jones, Lady, Death of, 520 Chesterton, G. K., 263 Cummings, Bruce, Death of, 135 Dehmel, Dr. Richard, Death of, 519 Dial, The, 392 Dobson, Austin, Eightieth Birthday of, 391 Flecker, James Elroy, 263 Gosse, Edmund, Seventieth Birthday of, 136 Hardy, Thomas, Presentation to, 135 New Edition of his Works, 263 James, Henry, Letters of, 263 Micro-organisms in Paper, 264 Osler, Sir William, Death of, 391 Smith, G. D., Death of, 648 Thomas, Edward, Memorial to, 519

MUSIC: Audience, The Function of the, 764 Beecham Opera, The, 248 Concerts, 377 Covent Garden, 376 Naturalisation of Opera in England, The, 763 Promenade Concerts, The, 119 Purcell and His Orchestra, 637 Purcell and Shakespeare, 635 Resurrection of an Opera, The, 635 Rubinstein's Recital, Mr. Arthur, 506 Scriabin Recital, A, 508 Spanish Music, Modern, 507 Surrey's Opportunity, The, 764

Publications, Select List of, 124, 251, 379, 509, 638, 766

OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN PROSE

ARCHITECTURE as Form in Civilisation, 574

Autographs, A Collection of, 320

Barbellion, W. N. P., 543

Blake as a Prophet, On, 283

Blind Thamyris, 403

Bridges' Lyrical Poems, Robert, 708

Butler, Samuel, 164

Classic of the Future, A Little (Somerville and Ross), 555

Crane, Stephen: A Note without Dates, 192

Creatures, The, 275

Crystal Vase, The, 176

Donne, John, 435

Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 155

Eliot, George, 34

English, The Teaching of, 62

Foreshore of London, The, 663

Future Poet and Our Time, The, 44

James, Henry—I, 673

Jonson, Ben, 184

Mackenzie, The Novels of Mr. Compton, 448

Misadventures, 149

Music, On Interpretation in, 694

Particles, An Article on, 71

Photography and Art, 301

Prose and Mortality, 312

Prose, On, 671

Psycho-Analysis and the Novel, 426

Records, A Case for, 685

Rhyme, The Romance of, 416

Satirists, Forgotten, 565

Servants, On, 533

Shelley and His Publishers, 291

Smile of the Sphinx, The, 16

Walpole, Horace, 52

POEMS

Almswomen, 525

Beechwood, 656

Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan!, 396

Buzzards, The, 138

Coming of Green, The, 523

Country Mood, A, 272

Draft for "A First and Last Song", 271

Early Chronology, 11

Evening Sky in March, The, 12

Fortunatus Nimium, 393

Gallipoli, Lines Written in, 267

Glimpse from the Train, A, 265

Going and Staying, 7

Hippolytus, The Modern, 524

House That Was, The, 14

Inglis, Elsie, 531

Intimacy, 527

Ishak's Song, 137

It's Not Going to Happen Again, 7

Love's Caution, 13

Moon, The, 139

Nature's Fruitfulness, 524

Night Rapture, 529

Nobis cum Pereant, 655

November, 268

Rock Pool, The, 12

Scirocco, 273

Search for the Nightingale, The, 8

Senses, The, 521

Shadow, The, 394

Shobeensho, 662

"Skindle's" in Poperinghe, 649

Soldier Addresses His Body, The, 527

Sorrowing for Childhood Departed, 532

Storm and Stars, 662

Suppose, 14

Tarantella, 266

To E. G., 394

Weir, By the, 395

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Armstrong, Martin: The Buzzards, 138 The Senses, 521 The Coming of Green, 523

Beerbohm, Max: On Servants, 533

Belloc, H.: Tarantella, 266

Beresford, J. D.: Psycho-Analysis and the Novel, 426

Binyon, Laurence: The House That Was, 14 Storm and Stars, 662

Blunden, Edmund: Almswomen, 525

Brett Young, Francis: Scirocco, 273

Bridges, Robert: Fortunatus Nimium, 393

Brooke, Rupert: It's Not Going to Happen Again, 7

Burrows, Francis: Nature's Fruitfulness, 524

Chesterton, G. K.: The Romance of Rhyme, 416

Clutton-Brock, A.: On Blake as a Prophet, 283

Conrad, Joseph: Stephen Crane: A Note without Dates, 192

Davies, W. H.: Love's Caution, 13

De la Mare, Walter: Suppose, 14 The Creatures, 275

Dent, Edward J.: Music, 119, 248, 376, 506, 635, 763

Dobson, Austin: To E. G., 394

Flecker, James Elroy: Ishak's Song, 137

Freeman, John: The Evening Sky in March, 12 The Novels of Mr. Compton Mackenzie, 448 Beechwood, 656

Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson: By the Weir, 395

Gosse, Edmund, C.B.: George Eliot, 34 Henry James—I., 673

Graves, A. P.: Shobeensho, 662

Graves, Robert: A Country Mood, 272

Hannay, Howard: Photography and Art, 301 The Fine Arts, 503, 632, 759

Hardy, Thomas, O.M.: Going and Staying, 7 A Glimpse from the Train, 265

Hastings, Major L. M.: "Skindle's" in Poperinghe, 649

Henschel, Sir George: On Interpretation in Music, 694

Hewlett, Maurice: The Crystal Vase, 176 Elsie Inglis, 531

Huxley, Aldous: Ben Jonson, 184 Forgotten Satirists, 565

Ingpen, Roger: Shelley and His Publishers, 291

Jenkinson, Hilary: A Case for Records, 685

Kennard, Sir Coleridge, Bart.: Draft for "A First and Last Song", 271

Leigh, The Rev. Canon N. Egerton: A Collection of Autographs, 320

Lethaby, Professor W. R.: Architecture as Form in Civilisation, 574

Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel: Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan!, 396

Lynd, Robert: Horace Walpole, 52 John Donne, 435

Mason, J. H.: Book-Production Notes, 231, 359, 495, 621, 752

Meynell, Alice: An Article on Particles, 71

Moore, T. Sturge: Blind Thamyris, 403

Nash, John: The Fine Arts, 116, 245, 373

Newbolt, Sir Henry: Nobis cum Pereant, 655

Nichols, Robert: The Smile of the Sphinx, 16 November, 268 Night Rapture, 529

Rickword, Edgell: Intimacy, 527 The Soldier Addresses His Body, 527

Rushby, Kenworth: The Modern Hippolytus, 524

Saintsbury, George: Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 155

Sassoon, Siegfried: Early Chronology, 11

Shanks, Edward: The Rock Pool, 12 Samuel Butler, 164 The Shadow, 394 W. N. P. Barbellion, 543

Shaw-Stewart, Patrick: Lines Written in Gallipoli, 267

Smith, L. Pearsall: Misadventures, 149

Squire, J. C.: The Future Poet and Our Time, 44 The Moon, 139 Prose and Mortality, 312 Robert Bridges' Lyrical Poems, 708

Stobart, J. C.: The Teaching of English, 62

Thibaudet, Albert: A Letter from France, 105, 360, 622

Tomlinson, H. M.: The Foreshore of London, 663

Turner, W. J.: The Search for the Nightingale, 8 Sorrowing for Childhood Departed, 532 The Drama, 111, 240, 368, 498, 627, 755

Van Deijssel, L.: Of Prose, 671

Williams, Orlo: A Little Classic of the Future, 555

REVIEWS

ACCOUNTS Rendered of Work Done and Things Seen, Buchanan, 494

Actor, Problems of the, Calvert, 502

Addresses in America, Galsworthy, 480

Anaphylaxis and Anti-Anaphylaxis, Besredka, 228

Appreciations of Poetry, Hearn, 93

Archaic England, Bayley, 616

Argonaut and Juggernaut, Sitwell, 206

Art, Essays on, Clutton-Brock, 344

Athenian Days, Byron, 83

Athletics, Success in, Webster, Jenkins, and Mostyn, 224

BALKAN Problems and European Peace, Buxton and Leese, 351

Banner, The, Spender, 733

Battle Line in France, The Romance of the, Bodley, 606

Before the War, Haldane, 487

Boche and Bolshevik, Price, 96

Books in the War, Koch, 738

Botany, Applied, Ellis, 230

Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination, Rupert, De la Mare, 215

Butler, Samuel: A Memoir, Festing-Jones, 164

CARMINA Rapta, Fairfax, 207

Catalysis in Theory and Practice, Rideal and Taylor, 101

Catherine of Siena, St., Pollard, 484

Cervantes, Schevill, 737

Challenge, A., Hardyman, 82

Chemistry and Its Mysteries, Gibson, 357

Chemistry from the Industrial Standpoint, Thorne, 230

Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago, A, Sedgwick, 482

Children of No Man's Land, Stern, 337

Chorus-Girl, and Other Stories, The, Tchehov, 476

Christian Ideas, First, Selwyn, 746

Clintons and Others, The, Marshall, 598

Clown of Paradise, The, Creston, 207

Coal Mining and the Coal Miner, Bulman, 744

Colloid Chemistry, Theoretical and Applied, Ostwald, 491

Colloids, The Chemistry of, Zsigmondy, 491

Comrades in Captivity, Harvey, 743

Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics, Jeans, 619

Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay, Williams-Ellis, 354

Country Sentiment, Graves, 728

Cousin Philip, Ward, 208

Coutts, The Life of Thomas, Coleridge, 482

Critic in Pall Mall, A, Wilde, 91

DAWN and Night, Poems of the, Mond, 82

Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Phillips, 606

Discovery, 751

Diversions of a Man of Letters, Some, Gosse, 89

Dodington, George Bubb: Patron and Place-Hunter, Sanders, 348

Domus Doloris, Leith, 481

Donne's Sermons: Selected Passages with an Essay, Pearsall Smith, 213

Douglas, Collected Poems of Lord Alfred, 81

Ducks and Other Verses, Harvey, 596

EASTER Island, The Mystery of, Routledge, 355

Economic Consequences of the Peace, The, Keynes, 487

Efficiency, Everyday, Lindsay, 228

Eli of the Downs, Peake, 733

Emerson and His Philosophy, Hill, 226

Empire and Commerce in Africa, Woolf, 616

Engineering, Foundations of, Spikes, 230

Engines of the Human Body, Keith, 618

English Course for Schools, An, Mais, 62

Europe, The Expansion of, Abbott, 93

Europe, Fifty Years of, Hazen, 217

Every Man in his Humour, Jonson, 243

FAR East, The Mastery of the, 98

Financial Problems, War-Time, Withers, 99

First Plays, Milne, 115

Fleurs-de-Lys, Thorley, 731

Flora, Bianco and De la Mare, 468

Flowers in the Grass, Hewlett, 727

Forgotten Places, Mackenzie, 81

Fox, Henry: First Lord Holland, Ilchester, 608

Friend to Friend, From, Ritchie, 739

Full Circle, Hamilton, 473

GALLOPER at Ypres, A, Butler, 606

Garret, In the, Van Vechten, 477

General William Booth Enters into Heaven, Lindsay, 335

Georgian Poetry, 1918–1919, 201

Glory of the Coming, The, Cobb, 486

Gold and Iron, Hergesheimer, 337

Greek Anthology, Echoes from the, Legge, 83

Guild State: Its Principles and Possibilities, The, Taylor, 100

Gyroscopic and Rotational Motion, A Treatise on, Gray, 226

HAMLET, The Problem of, Robertson, 92

Handmaiden of the Navy, The, Doorly, 223

Heartbreak House, Shaw, 114

Herschel, Macpherson, 751

How the War Came, Loreburn, 97

Hygiene for Training Colleges, A Text Book of, Avery, 750

IF All These Young Men, Wilson, 208

Illustration, Meynell, 375

Images of War, Aldington, 594

Imperfect Mother, An, Beresford, 733

India, The Government of, Macdonald, 490

Industry and Trade, Marshall, 220

Inflation, Nicholson, 222

Interim, Richardson, 473

Invisible Kingdom, An, Lilly, 225

Invisible Tides, Seymour, 473

Ions, Electrons, and Ionising Radiations, Crowther, 618

Ireland a Nation, Lynd, 353

Irish Impressions, Chesterton, 222

Italian Peasants, Among, Cyriax, 478

JACOPONE Da Todi, Underhill, 346

Jeremy, Walpole, 84

Jesus Chapel, Cambridge, The Stones and Story of, Morgan, 743

Jonson, Ben, Smith, 184

KEATS' Endymion, An Interpretation of, Notcutt, 737

Kiel in the Hercules, To, Freeman, 96

Kossovo, Rootham, 730

Kut Prisoner, A, Bishop, 606

LEAGUE of Nations, A Handbook of the, Butler, 489

Leagues of Nations, York, 615

Legend, Dane, 208

Lehmann, The Life of Liza, Lehmann, 486

Limbo, Huxley, 598

Lincoln, Abraham: The Practical Mystic, Grierson, 218

Lines of Life, Nevinson, 729

London Venture, The, Arlen, 477

MADELEINE, Mirrlees, 208

Man: Past and Present, Keane, Quiggin, and Haddon, 747

Manners of My Time, The, Dempster, 741

Mansoul or The Riddle of the World, Doughty, 593

Mask, The, Cournos, 208

Matter, Some Wonders of, Mercer, 357

Measures of the Poets, The, Bayfield, 601

Middle Life, Thoughts in, Locker-Lampson, 481

Miscellany of Poetry, A, Seymour, 471

Modern Science and Materialism, Elliot, 493

My Kingdom for a Horse! Allison, 96

NAPOLEON, Trench, 83

National Finance, A Primer of, Higgs, 101

Nationalisation of the Mines, Hodges, 744

Nevill, The Life and Letters of Lady Dorothy, Nevill, 219

New Decameron, The, Various Authors, 88

New Outlook, The, Cecil, 615

New Poems, Williams, 205

Night and Day, Woolf, 337

OCTOBER and Other Poems, Bridges, 708

Over and Above, Gurdon, 88

Oxford Scholar, An: Ingram Bywater, 1840–1914, Jackson, 349

PAGAN and Christian Creeds, Carpenter, 747

Paravane Adventure, The, Cornford, 487

Paths of Glory, The, 732

Peace in the Making, The, Harris, 615

Pedlar and Other Poems, The, Manning-Sanders, 729

Peel, Recollections of Lady Georgiana, Peel, 611

Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant, Frankau, 598

Phillpotts, One Hundred Pictures from Eden, Brewitt, 740

Physicists, Ten British, Macfarlane, 103

Pilgrim in Palestine, A, Finley, 479

Playwright, Problems of the, Hamilton, 758

Poems, Collected, Hardy, 333

Poems, 1916–1918, Brett Young, 332

Poems, Selected, Sackville, 596

Poetical Works, Excluding the Eight Dramas, Bridges, 708

Poland and the Poles, Boswell, 223

Poor Relations, Mackenzie, 84

Power of a Lie, The, Bojer, 337

Prelude, Nichols, 598

RACE and Nationality, Oakesmith, 99

Realities of Modern Science, The, Mills, 357

Reconstructors and Reconstruction, Oxon, 100

Records, Fisher, 607

Responsibilities of the League, The, Percy, 489

Revolt of Youth, The, Hobson, 88

Reynard the Fox, Masefield, 78

Richard Kurt, Hudson, 84

Riddle of the Ruthvens, The, Roughead, 347

Roast Beef, Medium, Ferber, 733

R. L. S., A Book of, Brown, 216

Romantic Roussillon, The, Savory, 345

Rousseau and Romanticism, Babbitt, 604

Russia in Rule and Misrule, Ballard, 615

SACRED and Profane Love, Bennett, 244

Saint's Progress, Galsworthy, 208

Science and Life, Soddy, 750

Seals and Documents, Poole, 742

Second Country, My, Dell, 614

September, Swinnerton, 84

Seven Men, Beerbohm, 212

Seventeenth-Century English Verse, Massingham, 470

Seventeenth-Century Life in the Country Parish, Trotter, 351

Shakespeare, Contemporaries of, Swinburne, 92

Shakespeare's Versification, A Study of, Bayfield, 601

Side Shows, In the, Benn, 353

Sir Limpidus, Pickthall, 337

Skilled Labourer, The, Hammond, 352

Skylark and Swallow, Gales, 729

Smith, William: Potter and Farmer, Bourne, 744

Social Theory, Cole, 745

Soldier Poets, Some, Sturge Moore, 215

Soldier to His Son, Any, Willis, 83

Sorley, The Letters of Charles, 343

South Sea Foam, Safroni-Middleton, 214

Springtime and Other Essays, Darwin, 605

Station Platform and Other Poems, The, Mackenzie, 83

Story of Purton, The, Richardson, 741

Submarines and Sea-Power, Domville-Fife, 487

Superhuman Antagonists, The, Watson, 79

Supreme Adventure, The, Macandrew, 101

Sussex in Bygone Days, Blaker, 478

TANK Corps, The, Williams-Ellis, 217

Tender Conscience, The, Lynch, 84

Thomson of Duddingston, The Life of John, Napier, 247

Time and Eternity, Cannan, 84

Tolstoy, Noyes, 737

Trade Unionism, The History of, Webb, 612

Turks in Europe, The, Allen, 484

Twenty-fifth Division in France and Flanders, The, Kincaid-Smith, 486

ULSTER and Ireland, Good, 100

Unhappy Far-Off Things, Dunsany, 345

Unmarried, The Great, Gallichan, 99

VALMOUTH, Firbank, 473

Vector Algebra, Projective, Silberstein, 230

Verse, Kipling, 333

Verse-Craft, Lessons in, Ford, 601

Verses, Meynell, 596

Victorian Recollections, Bridges, 485

Village Libraries, Sayle, 738

WALPOLE, Letters of Horace, 52

War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon, The, 206

War Poetry, A Treasury of, Clarke, 336

Wheels, 1919, 334

Worms and Epitaphs, Garrod, 594

YOUNG Physician, The, Brett Young, 84

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