By R.A. SCOTT-JAMES

LONDON: MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
First published 1913
WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH.

CONTENTS

[PART ONE: LITERATURE AND ART]
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[THE DEGRADATION OF BEAUTY]3
[LITERATURE A FINE ART]14
[PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT]42
[THE POPULAR TASTE]55
[PART TWO: LITERATURE AND MODERN LIFE]
[TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY]81
[PROFESSIONAL POLITICS]96
[SPECIALISM IN RELIGION]103
[SPECIALISM IN WAR]109
[SPECIALISM IN LITERATURE]115
[PHILOSOPHY AND JUSTICE]121
[PART THREE: LITERATURE AND MEN]
[BERNARD SHAW]131
[H.G. WELLS]151
[ARNOLD BENNETT]170
[GILBERT CHESTERTON]187
[SOME MODERN POETS]196
[J.M. SYNGE]222
[THE SHRAMANA EKAI KAWAGUCHI]226
[FRANCIS THOMPSON]235