ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE [Thomas Hardy] [Frontispiece] [Hilaire Belloc] [12] [Arnold Bennett] [22] [John Davys Beresford] [32] [John Buchan] [42] [Donn Byrne] [52] [William Henry Davies] [62] [Walter de la Mare] [72] [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] [82] [John Drinkwater] [92] [Jeffery Farnol] [102] [John Galsworthy] [112] [Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins] [122] [Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson] [132] [Sheila Kaye-Smith] [142] [Rudyard Kipling] [152] [William John Locke] [162] [Stephen McKenna] [172] [Compton Mackenzie] [182] [John Masefield] [192] [Alfred Edward Woodley Mason] [202] [William Somerset Maugham] [212] [William Babington Maxwell] [222] [Leonard Merrick] [232] [Alan Alexander Milne] [242] [Alfred Noyes] [252] [E. Phillips Oppenheim] [262] [May Sinclair] [272] [Frank Swinnerton] [282] [Hugh Walpole] [292] [Herbert George Wells] [302] [Israel Zangwill] [312]