Books on the table
By: by Edmund Gosse, C.B.
Publisher: Scribner's
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: value: The last years of Disraeli.-Boythorn in the flesh.-The aristocrat in literature.-A Frenchman of the fourth century.-"The diall of princes."-"The hierarchie of angels."-Pascal and the Jesuits.-The poet among the cannibals.-The letters of Tchckhov.-The unveiling of poet among the cannibals.-The letters of Tchekhov.-The unveiling of Tolstoi.-"The English poets."-The folk-lore of the Bible.-Edgar Poe and his detractors.-The essays of Mr. Lucas.-"In a green shade."-Autobiography and Mrs. Asquith.-Clough.-Zoffany.-Philip Massinger.-Miss Mitford.-Frederick Locker.-The fox in song.-The sepulchral dean.-Wine and Mr. Saintsbury.-Some French memoirs.-Winner and waster.-The tutor of Marcus Aurelius.-A stormy petrel.-Leonard Courtney.-Paul Claudel.-A bubble burst.-The character of Fielding.-Mr. Doughty's "Mansoul."-The science of manuscripts.-The psychology of the blind.-Thackeray's daughter.-Carlyle.-The fairy in the garden.-Goethe.-Count D'Orsay's portraits.-Index.