DEDICATION

PREFACE

HOW THEY STRUCK A CONTEMPORARY

THE QUALITY OF GEORGE MEREDITH

LIFE THE FALLACIOUS MODEL

LIFE THE DISCIPLE

LIFE THE PLAGIARIST

THE INDISPENSABLE EAST

THE INFLUENCE OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS ON CLIMATE

AN EXPOSURE OF NATURALISM

THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT

WAINEWRIGHT AT HOBART TOWN

CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHERS

ROBERT BROWNING

THE TWO SUPREME AND HIGHEST ARTS

THE SECRETS OF IMMORTALITY

THE CRITIC AND HIS MATERIAL

DANTE THE LIVING GUIDE

THE LIMITATIONS OF GENIUS

WANTED A NEW BACKGROUND

WITHOUT FRONTIERS

THE POETRY OF ARCHÆOLOGY

THE ART OF ARCHÆOLOGY

HEROD SUPPLIANT

THE TETRARCH’S REMORSE

THE TETRARCH’S TREASURE

SALOMÉ ANTICIPATES DR. STRAUSS

THE YOUNG KING

A CORONATION

THE KING OF SPAIN

A BULL FIGHT

THE THRONE ROOM

A PROTECTED COUNTRY

THE BLACKMAILING OF THE EMPEROR

COVENT GARDEN

A LETTER FROM MISS JANE PERCY TO HER AUNT

THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN ‘HUMOR’

THE GARDEN OF DEATH

AN ETON KIT-CAT

MRS. ERLYNNE EXERCISES THE PREROGATIVE OF A GRANDMOTHER

MOTHERHOOD MORE THAN MARRIAGE

THE DAMNABLE IDEAL

FROM A REJECTED PRIZE-ESSAY

THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE USEFUL

THE ARTIST

THE DOER OF GOOD

THE DISCIPLE

THE MASTER

THE HOUSE OF JUDGMENT

THE TEACHER OF WISDOM

WILDE GIVES DIRECTIONS ABOUT ‘DE PROFUNDIS’

CAREY STREET

SORROW WEARS NO MASK

VITA NUOVA

THE GRAND ROMANTIC

CLAPHAM JUNCTION

THE BROKEN RESOLUTION

DOMESTICITY AT BERNEVAL

A VISIT TO THE POPE

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