Characters and Commentaries

xi, 301 pp. Red boards. CONTENTS: I. English Letter Writers (Unpublished, 1905): The Elizabethans - Pope, Addison, Steele, and Swift - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lord Chesterfield - Horace Walpole - Gray and Cowper - Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Lamb; II. Early Essays: Two Frenchmen - The Wrong Turning - Horace Walpole - Versailles - Mademoiselle de Lespinasse - The First Earl of Lytton - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - "A Simple Story" - An Anthology; III. 1913-1918: Avos-nous Change Tout Cela? - The Old Comedy - Bonga-Bonga in Whitehall - A Russian Humorist - A Victorian Critic - Mr. Hardy's New Poems - French Poets through Boston Eyes - A Sidelight on Frederick the Great - An Adolescent - Rabelais - A Statesman: Lord Morley - A Diplomatist: Li Hung-Chang - Militarism and Theology - The Claims of Patriotism; IV. Later Essays: Shakespeare at Cambridge - Voltaire - Walpole's Letters - Dizzy - Sarah Bernhardt - Pope - The Eighteenth Century - Words and Poetry - Othello; Index.