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SUPERFLUOUS KINGS 7
STRICTLY AN ELIZABETHAN LYRIST 12
‘A MODERN POETESS’ 18
TO ITALY WITH EVELYN 25
WATERFALLS 31
A TOMB IN BAYSWATER 37
A CORRUPT FOLLOWING 42
THE SWAN OF LICHFIELD 49
JOANNA BAILLIE 56
THE CLASSIC NOVELIST 62
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO 68
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 75
GEORGE DARLEY 82
SYDNEY DOBELL 87
COVENTRY PATMORE 94
POETRY AND CHILDHOOD 110
GEORGE MEREDITH 117
PESSIMISM IN FICTION 122
GIACINTO GALLINA 127
THE SECOND PERSON SINGULAR 133
_The papers which follow have been chosen from those of Mrs. Meynell’s
literary essays that have not yet been reprinted in book-form. The
selection has been made at the instance of the Oxford University Press._