- 1Title page
- 2Introduction
- 3Part I — Some English Classics
- 4II — Wuthering Heights
- 5III — Charles Lamb
- 6IV — James Boswell
- 7V — William Hazlitt
- 8VI — Samuel Pepys
- 9VII — Walter Savage Landor
- 10VIII — John Donne
- 11IX — Such a Book as the Beggar’s Opera
- 12Part II — Some Contemporaries
- 13II — The Poems of Francis Brett-Young
- 14III — The Poems of Iris Tree
- 15IV — The Poems of Aldous Huxley
- 16V — The Poems of Robert Graves
- 17VI — J. D. Beresford
- 18VII — Night and Day
- 19VIII — E. C. Booth
- 20IX — Ford Madox Hueffer
- 21X — The Ballad of the White Horse
- 22XI — E. M. Forster
- 23XII — Sheila Kaye-Smith
- 24Part III — Books on the English Language
- 25II — The Romance of Words — By Ernest Weekley
- 26III — The Romance of Names — By Ernest Weekley
- 27IV — The English Language — By Logan Pearsall Smith
- 28Part IV — Certain Foreigners
- 29II — Nekrassov (1821-1877)
- 30III — Pushkin (1799-1837)
- 31IV — Lèrmontov (1814-1841)
- 32V — Gogol (1809-1852)
- 33VI — Turgenev (1816-1883)
- 34VII — Goncharov (1812-1891)
- 35VIII — Dostoievsky (1821-1881)
- 36IX — Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- 37X — Tchehov (1860-1904)
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