The common reader

The common reader.

The Pastons and Chaucer.

On not knowing Greek.

The Elizabethan lumber room.

Notes on an Elizabethan play.

Montaigne.

The Duchess of Newcastle.

Rambling round Evelyn.

Defoe.

Addison.

The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.

Jane Austen.

Modern fiction.

"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights".

George Eliot.

The Russian point of view.

Outlines: Miss Mitford. Dr. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.

The patron and the crocus.

The modern essay.

Joseph Conrad.

How it strikes a contemporary.