CONTENTS

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[William De Morgan] 1
[Thomas Hardy]33
[William Dean Howells]56
[Björnstjerne Björnson]82
[Mark Twain]99
[Henryk Sienkiewicz]115
[Hermann Sudermann]132
[Alfred Ollivant]159
[Robert Louis Stevenson]172
[Mrs. Humphry Ward]191
[Rudyard Kipling]208
["Lorna Doone"] 229
[Appendices]245
A. [Novels as a University Study]245
B. [The Teacher's Attitude toward Contemporary Literature]252
C. [Two Poems]258
[List of Publications]261