| Introduction | ix |
| Note on the text | xiv |
| Acknowledgements | xiv |
| The Evolution of a Lyric (1899) | 1 |
| Creative History and the Historic Sense (1903-4) | 4 |
| The Collected Poems of Christina Rossetti (1904) | 15 |
| A Literary Causerie: On Some Tendencies of Modern Verse (1905; on Sturge Moore) | 28 |
| Literary Portraits from The Tribune | |
| III. Mr John Galsworthy (1907) | 33 |
| VIII. Mr Joseph Conrad (1907) | 36 |
| [X, but says VIII]. Maxim Gorky (1907) | 39 |
| IX [sic: should be XI]. Mr Dion Clayton Calthrop (1907) | 43 |
| XIV. Mr Maurice Hewlett (1907) | 46 |
| From XXIII. The Year 1907 | 49 |
| XXIV. The Year 1908 | 49 |
| XXVII. Mr Charles Doughty (1908) | 52 |
| Shylock as Mr Tree (1908) | 56 |
| Essays from The English Review | |
| The Unemployed (1908) | 59 |
| Review of George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody (1909) | 62 |
| The Work of W.H. Hudson (1909) | 65 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne (1909) | 71 |
| George Meredith OM (1909) | 72 |
| Review of C.F.G. Masterman, The Condition of England (1909) | 73 |
| Joseph Conrad (1911) | 76 |
| D.G.R. (1911) | 91 |
| Essays from The Bystander | |
| A Tory Plea for Home Rule (2 articles; 1911) | 98 |
| Pan and the Pantomime (on Shaw; 1912) | 106 |
| Literary Portraits and Other Essays from The Outlook | |
| I. Mr Compton Mackenzie and Sinister Street (1913) | 110 |
| VI. Mr John Galsworthy and The Dark Flower (1913) | 114 |
| VII. Mr Percival Gibbon and The Second-Class Passenger (1913) | 118 |
| XII. Herr Arthur Schnitzler and Bertha Garlan (1913) | 122 |
| XXIII. Fydor Dostoevsky and The Idiot (1914) | 126 |
| XXV. Monsignor Benson and Initiation (1914) | 129 |
| XXVI. Miss Amber Reeves and A Lady and her Husband (1914) | 133 |
| XXVIII. Mr Morley Roberts and Time and Thomas Waring (1914) | 137 |
| XXXI. Lord Dunsany and Five Plays (1914) | 142 |
| XXXIV. Miss May Sinclair and The Judgment of Eve (1914) | 146 |
| XXXV. Les Jeunes and Des Imagistes (1914) | 150 |
| XXXVI. Les Jeunes and Des Imagistes (Second Notice) (1914) | 154 |
| XXXVIII. Mr W.H. Mallock and Social Reform (1914) | 159 |
| XXXIX. Mr W.B. Yeats and his New Poems (1914) | 163 |
| XLII. Mr Robert Frost and North of Boston (1914) | 167 |
| France, 1915 (continued) (1915) | 170 |
| Sologub and Artzibashef (1915) | 173 |
| A Jubilee (review of Some Imagist Poets) (1915) | 178 |
| On a Notice of Blast (1915) | 182 |
| 'Thus to Revisit', Piccadilly Review (1919) | |
| I. The Novel (Gilbert Cannan, Time and Eternity; Virginia Woolf, Night and Day) | 186 |
| II. The Realistic Novel (Dostoevsky, An Honest Thief; George Stevenson, Bengy) | 190 |
| III. The Serious Books (Max Beerbohm, Seven Men; W.H. Hudson, Birds in Town and Village) | 192 |
| V. Biography and Criticism (Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Wyndham Lewis, The Caliph's Design) | 197 |
| Letter to the Editor of The Athenaeum (1920) | 203 |
| An Answer to 'Three Questions' (1922) | 206 |
| A Haughty and Proud Generation (1922) | 208 |
| Ulysses and the Handling of Indecencies (1922) | 218 |
| Mr Conrad's Writing (1923) | 228 |
| Literary Causeries from the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine | |
| II. Vill Loomyare (1924) | 232 |
| III. And the French (1924) | 233 |
| VIII. So She Went into The Garden ... (on Joyce; 1924) | 235 |
| Essays from the transatlantic review (1924) | |
| Stocktaking: Towards a Revaluation of English Literature | |
| II. Axioms and Internationalisms | 241 |
| [III. but headed] II. (continued) | 243 |
| IV. Intelligentsia | 248 |
| IX. The Serious Book (continued) | 254 |
| X. The Reader | 261 |
| From a Paris Quay (II) (1925) | 269 |
| The Other House (review of Jean-Aubry's Joseph Conrad; 1927) | 272 |
| Cambridge on the Caboodle (on Forster; 1927) | 276 |
| Thomas Hardy, OM Obiit 11 January 1928 | 282 |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts by Ford Madox Ford (1928) | 285 |
| On Conrad's Vocabulary (1928) | 288 |
| Review of Josephine Herbst, Nothing is Sacred (1928) | 292 |
| Review of Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth (1929) | 294 |
| Mediterranean Reverie (on Pound; 1933) | 296 |
| Hands Off the Arts (1935) | 300 |
| Men and Books (on Conrad; 1936) | 309 |
| Observations on Technique (1937) | 312 |
| Ralston Crawford's Pictures (1937) | 314 |
| The Flame in Stone (on Louise Bogan; 1937) | 316 |
| None Shall Look Back (on Caroline Gordon; 1937) | 319 |
| Statement on the Spanish War (1937) | 321 |
| Index | 323 |
