Aspects and Impressions

by Edmund Gosse

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Aspects and
Impressions

By
Edmund Gosse, C.B.
D.Litt. of Cambridge University;
LL.D. of St. Andrews

Cassell and Company, Ltd
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1922

TO
My Friend
JOHN C. SQUIRE
Poet, Editor, and Critic

These Essays are mainly reprinted from The Edinburgh Review, The London Mercury, The Modern Languages Review, and The Fortnightly Review. "Malherbe and the Classical Reaction" was the Taylorian Lecture at Oxford for 1920, and is included here by the courtesy of the authorities of the University.

Contents

PAGE
GEORGE ELIOT	[1]
HENRY JAMES	[17]
SAMUEL BUTLER	[55]
A NOTE ON CONGREVE	[77]
THE FIRST DRAFT OF SWINBURNE'S "ANACTORIA"	[87]
THE HÔTEL DE RAMBOUILLET	[97]
MALHERBE AND THE CLASSICAL REACTION	[123]
THE FOUNDATION OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY	[145]
ROUSSEAU IN ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTHCENTURY	[169]
THE CENTENARY OF LECONTE DE LISLE	[193]
TWO FRENCH CRITICS: EMILE FAGUET—REMYDE GOURMONT	[203]
THE WRITINGS OF M. CLEMENCEAU	[225]
A VISIT TO THE FRIENDS OF IBSEN	[247]
FAIRYLAND AND A BELGIAN ARIOSTO	[261]
SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF LORD WOLSELEY	[273]
INDEX	[291]