CONTENTSPreface - Queen Victoria - The Prince of Critics - The Shropshire Lad - Gods and Heroes - Frederic Myers' Poems - The Court of Faery - A Great American Library - The Daniel Press - Yorick and His Eliza - Izaak Walton's Adopted Son - Burlesque - Snap-shots at Swinburne - Rostand's Plays - Daughters of Fire - The Art of Parody - A Friend of MoliPre - Bon Gaultier and Firmilian - Beowulf - Mark Akenside - Pearl - Earlham - The Laureate of Wedded Love - Edwin Abbey - The Oxford Sausage - Georgian Poetry - The Wolseleys - M. Bourget's Novels - The Lives of the Sophists - Lord Rosebery as a Critic - Two Blind Historians - Kitchen Essays - Leigh Hunt - Metaphysical Poetry - Lamartine and the English Poets - Second Thoughts - How to Read the Bible - Blake and Gray - Domesday Book - Browning in France - A Vision of Burmah - Matthew Arnold - Index