Chapter VIII: Part 8

Mackail, J.W., 270 Macmillan, Sir Frederick, 130 "Madame Bovary," terms of the publication of, 16 Madeleine, Jules de la, 16 Malet, Lucas, 331 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 65 "Man of Kent, A," _see_ Nicoll, Sir W.R. Manchester, the potential reading public of, 101 _Manchester Guardian_, the, 47, 84, 237 Marjoram, J., 145 Masefield, John, 28, 311-314 Mason, Frederic, 77 Mathews, Elkin, 267 Matisse, 283 Maupassant, Guy de, 86, 117, 137, 252 Maxwell, W.B., 9, 27 Meyerfeld, Dr. Max, 217 Memoirs, books of scandalous, 98, 181 "Mercure de France, Société du," 59 Meredith, George, 87, 95, 134-139, 173, 227 Merrick, Leonard, 5, 94 Methuen, Sir A.M.S., 130 Middle-class, 89 Milton, 19, 20 Mitchell library, Whitman's poems at the, 192 Molière, 19 Money, artists and, 242, 250-254 "Money," a gala performance of, 316 Montague, C.E., 201-203 Montaigne, 222 Montenegro, the Queen of, 276 Moore, George, 8, 87, 94, 172, 176, 190 Morley, Lord, 22 _Morning Post_, the, 208 Mudie's, 33, 52, 88, 173, 174, 175 Municipal Free library, the, 104 Murray, John, action against the _Times_, 11, 16

Napoleon's mistresses, 99 _Nation_, the, 84 Nelson's Sevenpenny novels, 107, 130 Neo-Impressionism and literature, 281 _Neolith_, the, 243 _New Age_, the, 122, 246 "New Machiavelli, The," 294-299 New York, 160, 161 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 3 Nicoll, Sir William Robertson, 5, 26, 29, 67, 114, 222, 319 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 78 Norris, W.E., 49 Novel, a "literary," 331 a sexual, 271 dialogue and drama in the, 311 library censorship of the, 167, 181, 271 the sevenpenny, 72, 107, 130 the six-shilling, 22, 72, 131 the, ugliness in, 8 of the season, the, 26 Novels and short stories, a perennial discussion, 86 autobiography in, 295 shilling, 107 the length of, 248 the sales of, 68, 131 Novelists and agents, 22, 72 Nousanne, Henri de, 259, 260 Noyes, Alfred, 325 Numès, M., 259

Omar Khayyám, 84 Ospovat, Henry, 79

_Pall Mall Gazette_, the, 137 Paris, 155, 256 Pater, Walter, 227 Pedlars, book-, 105 Pemberton, Max, 103 Periodical, the literary 242 Persky, Serge, 224 Perusals, unfinished, 235-237 Phillpotts, Eden, 47, 87 Pinero, Sir A.W., 140 Play of Tchehkoff's, a, 321-324 Poe and the short story, 84 Poetry, love, 145 marine, 325 official recognition of, 155 Poets, contemporary, 63, 325 Post-Impressionists, _see_ Neo-Impressionism Postal censorship, English and American, 193 Prices of books, the, 14, 130 Prose, the, of Wilfred Whitten, 3 Professors, 41, 269 Provinces, the potential reading public of the, 101 Public, the, 88 a publisher on "the public," 204 disdain of artists for the public, 243 the characteristics of the middle-class public, "the backbone," 88-94 treatment of this class by contemporary novelists, 94-96 unreadiness of this class to be pleased, 97 explanation of its concern with fiction, 98 the potential public in the industrial Midlands, 101 trade failure to cater for this public, 102-104 the Free Libraries, 104 the book-pedlar, 105 cheap editions, 107 the sections composed of dilettanti, 229 "right people," 291, 294 as book-buyers, 32 Publishers' Association, the, and Library Censorship, 169, 277 Publishers and authors, 204-207 English and French, compared, 17 their place in literature, 13 profits, 11, 16, 72, 182 Publishing seasons, bad, 22, 26, 68 _Punch_, 143 Putney, the High Street, 123

Quiller-Couch, Sir A.T., 55, 87

Railway accident, a book in a, 328 Raleigh, Prof. Sir Walter, 44, 238, 269 Reading on holiday, 222 Realism, the progress towards, 118; Russian realism, 208 Rembrandt, 281 Reprints, cheap, 33 Reviewers, 26, 36 _Revue des Deux Mondes_, the, 81 Reynolds, Stephen, 78, 120 Richards, Grant, 26 Richardson, Frank, 109 Samuel, 139, 172, 192 "Rita," 51 Robaglia, M., 259 Rockefeller, J.D., 193 Rodin's statue of Hugo, 156 Rosebery, Lord, 250 Ross, Robert, 217 Rossetti, D.G., 172 Roussel, 283 Rouveyre's caricature of Bernhardt, 79 Royal Academy, the, 234. Russian fiction and drama, 117, 141, 208-213, 224, 321 Rutherford, Mark, 94

Sainte-Beuve, 267, 268, 270 Saintsbury, George, 42, 269 Sales, the, of novels, 59, 68, 131 Sampson, John, his edition of Blake, 18 Sargent, John, 95, 190 _Savoy_, the, 243 Scarborough, 227 Schücking, Dr. Levin, 66 Scott, Sir Walter, 86, 105, 134, 139, 252 Scott-James, R.A., 295 Sculpture, proposal for an academy of, 234 Sea and Slaughter, 325-327 Season, the novel of the, 26 Seasons, bad publishing, 22, 68 Sélincourt, Ernest de, his edition of Keats, 18 Series of reprints, cheap, 33 Sevenpenny novel, the, 72, 107, 130 Shakespeare, 19, 172, 318 Shaw, George Bernard, 84, 130, 195, 200, 291, 316, 317 Shelley, P.B., 172, 318 Shilling novels, 107 Short story, the, in England, 38, 84 Shorter, C.K., 26, 29, 42, 114, 188 Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 105 Sims, G.R., 126 Single lines, the, of Wordsworth, 18 Six-shilling novel, the, 22, 72, 131 Smith, Sir F.E., 78, 291 Nowell, his edition of Wordsworth, 18, 21 Smith, Reginald, 130 the Rt. Hon. W.F.D., 47 and Son, W.H., 88, 132 Smollett, Tobias, 192 "Société du Mercure de France," the, 59 Sonnet, the, and the Epic, 87 _Sphere, see_ Shorter, C.K. Stacpoole, H. de Vere, 28 Stage Society, the Incorporated, 256, 321 State performances, lectures and, 315 Stationers' shops and books, 103 Stead, W.T., 295 Stendhal, 60, 96, 134, 211 Stephen, Sir Leslie, 19 Sterne, Laurence, 172 Stevenson, R.L., 37, 81, 86, 221, 252 Stock, M., the French publisher, 256, 260 _Strand Magazine_, the, 113 Strauss, Richard, 280 Style, English, 45 Success in Journalism, 300-304 Suppressions in "De Profundis," 217 Surrey labourer, the, 120 Swift, Jonathan, 172 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 22, 66, 123 Switzerland, 227 Symons, Arthur, 209 Synge, J.M., 63

Taine, 267, 270 Tchehkoff, Anton, 117, 141, 208, 225, 258, 321-324 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 84, 85, 103, 125, 126, 156 Thackeray, W.M., 134, 139, 315 Thurston, E. Temple, 290 _Times_, the, and the letters of Queen Victoria, 11 an article on Trollope in, 148 Book Club, 88, 315 _Literary Supplement_, 48, 266 Tolstoy, 117, 192, 208, 224 Tonnelat, M., on German colonial expansion, 30 Tourgeniev, 117, 208-213 Tree, Sir H. Beerbohm, 197 Trevena, John, 276 Trollope, Anthony, 134, 139, 148 Tunbridge Wells, 12

Ugliness in fiction, 8 Unclean books, 143 Unfinished perusals, 235 "Unpleasant" books, 97

Vachell, Horace Annesley, 97 Vallotton, Félix, 283 Verlaine, Paul, 28 Victoria, Queen, the Betters of, 11, 16, 68, 69 Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 129, 328 Vladimir, the Grand Duchess, 276

Walkley, A.B., 62, 140, 194, 222 Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 39, 47, 56, 65, 103, 130, 139, 206, 291 Wedgwood, A.F., 237 Wells, H.G., 61, 62, 78, 87, 94, 109-116, 123, 186, 192, 294-299, 313, 315 _Westminster Gazette_, the, 60, 69, 248 White, Gilbert, 84 W. Hale (Mark Rutherford), 94 Whitman's poems at the Mitchell Library, 102 Whitten, Wilfred (John o' London), 3 Wilde, Oscar, 66, 217, 317 Williams, Daniel, a bookseller, 12 _Woman's Journal_, the Boston, 193 Wordsworth, William, 18, 157 Wyman, Messrs., 132

Yeats, W.B., 63, 325 _Yellow Book_, the, 243 Yonge, Charlotte M., 8, 105, 136, 210

Zangwill, Israel, 311 Zola, Emile, 59, 208

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