Epigraph
Vt Mel Os, sic Cor Melos afficit, & reficit.
Deuteromelia.
A mixture of a Song doth ever adde Pleasure.
BACON (adapted).
Prologue
[The Author desires to express his thanks to Lord Northcliffe, Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., Mr. William Heinemann, and Messrs. Virtue and Co., for kind permission to reprint those pieces in this volume concerning which no specific arrangements were made on their first appearance in type.]
Prologue
On Some Books And Their Associations
An Epistle To An Editor
Bramston’s “Man Of Taste”
The Passionate Printer To His Love
M. Rouquet On The Arts
The Friend Of Humanity And The Rhymer
The Parent’s Assistant
A Pleasant Invective Against Printing
Two Modern Book Illustrators—I. Kate Greenaway
A Song Of The Greenaway Child
Two Modern Book Illustrators—II. Mr. Hugh Thomson
Horatian Ode On The Tercentenary Of “Don Quixote”
The Books Of Samuel Rogers
Pepys’ “Diary”
A French Critic On Bath
A Welcome From The “Johnson Club”
Thackeray’s “Esmond”
A Miltonic Exercise
Fresh Facts About Fielding
Cross Readings—And Caleb Whitefoord
The Last Proof