Contents

The Triple Thinkers Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull 7 Is Verse a Dying Technique? 19 In H o n o r of Pushkin 35 A. E. Housman 63 The Politics of Flaubert 75 The Ambiguity of Henry James 90 John Jay Chapman 134 Bernard Shaw at Eighty 165 Marxism and Literature 197 Morose Ben Jonson 213 "Mr. Rolfe" 233 The Historical Interpretation of Literature 256

The Wound and the Bow Dickens: The Two Scrooges 275 The Kipling That Nobody Read 344 Uncomfortable Casanova 396 Justice to Edith Wharton 405 Hemingway: Gauge of Morale 418 The Dream of H. C. Earwicker 438 Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow 458

Classics and Commercials Archibald MacLeish and the Word 479 Van Wyck Brooks's Second Phase 485 The Boys in the Back Room 492 Max Eastman in 1941 521 T. K. Whipple 531 The Antrobuses and the Earwickers 539 Alexander Woollcott of the Phalanx 544 The Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff 549 Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a Stylist 552 Thoughts on Being Bibliographed 557 Through the Embassy Window: Harold Nicholson 570 Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post 575 The Life and Times of John Barrymore 579 The Art of Evelyn Waugh 585 John Mulholland and the Art of Illusion 591

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What Became of Louis Bromfield 595 J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff 601 A Toast and a Tear for Dorothy Parker 607 A Treatise on Tales of Horror 610 A Guide to Finnegans Wake 618 A Novel by Salvador Dali 624 A Long Talk about Jane Austen 629 "You Can't Do That To Me!" Shrilled Celia 636 Aldous Huxley in the World Beyond Time 640 Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol 644 Katherine Anne Porter 647 Brooks's Age of Irving 651 Why Do People Read Detective Stories? 657 Bernard Shaw on the Training of a Statesman 662 Reexamining Dr. Johnson 667 Leonid Leonov: The Sophistication of a Formula 672 Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? 677 "Mr. Holmes, They Were The Footprints

of a Gigantic Hound!" 684 Glenway Wescott's War Work 691 A Cry from the Unquiet Grave 695 Tales of the Marvellous and the Ridiculous 700 Thackeray's Letters 704 Splendors and Miseries of Evelyn Waugh 709 George Saintsbury's Centenary 715 Ambushing a Best-Seller 719 The Apotheosis of Somerset Maugham 725 William Saroyan and His Darling Old Providence 732 Oscar Wilde 735 George Grosz in the United States 745 An Old Friend of the Family: Thackeray 749 Gilbert Without Sullivan 758 George Saintsbury: Gourmet and Glutton . . 763 Books of Etiquette and Emily Post 767 A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka 776 Jean-Paul Sartre: The Novelist and the Existentialist 784 The Musical Glasses of Peacock 793 Edith Wharton: A Memoir by an English Friend 799 The Sanctity of Baudelaire 804 Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War Period 807 An Analysis of Max Beerbohm 813

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The Original of Tolstoy's Natasha 822 "The Most Unhappy Man on Earth" 830 William Faulkner's Reply to the Civil-Rights Program 836 In Memory of Octave Mirbeau 844 A Revival of Ronald Firbank 856 Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases 869

Uncollected Reviews Return of Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls 885 Doubts and Dreams: Dangling Man

and Under a Glass Bell 890 A Novel by Dawn Powell: My Home Is Far Away 894 Faintness of the Age of Thunder and

Power of The Folded Leaf 897 Theodore Dreiser's Quaker and

Graham Greene's Priest 901 Henry James and Auden in America 906

Chronology 913 Note on the Texts 929 Notes 931 Index 957