《英美近代散文选读》

Co ntents1

1 Egdon Heath Thomas Hardy1

2 Birds William Henry Hudson9

3 A Practical Study of Languages Henry Sweet16

4 A Handful of Clay Henry van Dyke26

5 Tolstoi’s Theory of Art Lafcadio Hearn33

6 The Dramatic Critic George Bernard Shaw42

7 Every Man’s Natural Desire to be Somebody Else Samuel McChord Crothers50

8 Shakespeare’s Island George Gissing56

9 On Education Alfred North Whitehead59

10 Style Walter Raleigh66

11 Tendencies in Modern Fiction Edith Wharton73

12 The Rose Logan Pearsall Smith80

13 My First Flight Herbert George Wells87

14 The Faculty of Delight Charles Edward Montague95

15 Fog G．S．Street99

16 Expressing One’s Individuality Arnold Bennet106

17 Death of Aunt Ann John Galsworthy114

18 Dancers John Galsworthy120

19 Meditations Among the Cages Edward Verrall Lucas125

20 The Windmill Edward Verrall Lucas137

21 On Lucidity Hilaire Belloc141

22 Scarcity and Plenty Theodore Dreiser150

23 Ouida Max Beerbohm160

24 The Golden Drugget Max Beerbohm164

25 Two Histories Carl Becker170

26 Fact and Fiction William Somerset Maugham176

27 Letter to Herbert E．Palmer Edward John Dunsany181

28 The Writing of English Henry Seidel Canby185

29 On Being a Bore Robert Lynd191

30 The Englishman Edward Morgan Forster198

31 Balzac Giles Lytton Strachey201

32 Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son Virginia Woolf208

33 The War Babies Are Growing Up Hugh Walpole215

34 Beauty and Adventure Rose Macaulay223

35 Sound and Fury Rose Macaulay229

36 A Preface to the Profession of Journalism Christopher Morley233

37 At Sea Aldous Huxley243

38 First Snow John Boynton Priestley250

39 October Lake Herbert Ernest Bates256