| PAGE |
| Preface: On Fluctuations of Taste | [1] |
| The Shepherd of the Ocean | [13] |
| The Songs of Shakespeare | [29] |
| Catharine Trotter, the Precursor of the Bluestockings | [37] |
| The Message of the Wartons | [63] |
| The Charm of Sterne | [91] |
| The Centenary of Edgar Allen Poe | [101] |
| The Author of "Pelham" | [115] |
| The Challenge of the Brontës | [139] |
| Disraeli's Novels | [151] |
| Three Experiments in Portraiture— | |
| I. Lady Dorothy Nevill | [181] |
| II. Lord Cromer | [196] |
| III. The Last Days of Lord Redesdale | [216] |
| The Lyrical Poetry of Thomas Hardy | [231] |
| Some Soldier Poets | [259] |
| The Future of English Poetry | [287] |
| The Agony of the Victorian Age | [311] |
| Index | [338] |