[Note: I have made the following spelling changes: qualites which strike to qualities which strike, revelled in to reveled in, protegés to protégés, voluptuous femininty to voluptuous femininity, tyrrannise to tyrannise, Montagus to Montagues, Zarathrustra to Zarathustra, antiChrist to anti-Christ, Car nous voulous to Car nous voulons, Gélent votre chair to Gèlent votre chair, slips in in to slips in, irrresponsible a temperament to irresponsible a temperament, common occurences to common occurrences, philanthrophy to philanthropy, demogorgon to Demogorgon, somethings which palls upon us to something which palls upon us, never encounted to never encountered, Arimathaea to Arimathea, the the contemptuous libels to the contemptuous libels, lapséd soul to lapsed soul, philsophical motto to philosophical motto, sybilline to sibylline, pseudo-latin to pseudo-Latin, and ninteenth century to nineteenth century.]

SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS

ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND SENSATIONS

JOHN COWPER POWYS

1916
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1916, by G. Arnold Shaw
Copyright in Great Britain and the Colonies

DEDICATED
TO MY DEAR FRIEND
BERNARD PRICE O'NEILL

[The Art of Discrimination] 3
[Montaigne] 17
[Pascal] 47
[Voltaire] 63
[Rousseau] 83
[Balzac] 107
[Victor Hugo] 133
[Guy de Maupassant] 149
[Anatole France] 171
[Paul Verlaine] 197
[Remy de Gourmont] 225
[William Blake] 257
[Byron] 279
[Emily Brontë] 313
[Joseph Conrad] 337
[Henry James] 367
[Oscar Wilde] 401
[Suspended Judgment] 425

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