Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE DOCTOR LOOKS
AT LITERATURE

PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES
OF LIFE AND LETTERS

BY
JOSEPH COLLINS

AUTHOR OF “THE WAY WITH THE NERVES,”
“MY ITALIAN YEAR,” “IDLING IN ITALY,” ETC.

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1923,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE. I
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_In Memoriam_

PEARCE BAILEY

DEVOTED COLLEAGUE
LOYAL COADJUTOR
INDULGENT FRIEND

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author wishes to express his thanks to the editors of the
_North American Review_, the _New York Times_ and the
_Literary Digest International Book Review_ for permission
to elaborate material used by them into certain chapters of this
volume.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I PSYCHOLOGY AND FICTION 15

II IRELAND'S LATEST LITERARY ANTINOMIAN: JAMES JOYCE 35

III FEODOR DOSTOIEVSKY: TRAGEDIST, PROPHET, AND PSYCHOLOGIST 61

IV DOROTHY RICHARDSON AND HER CENSOR 96

V MARCEL PROUST: MASTER PSYCHOLOGIST AND PILOT OF
THE “VRAIE VIE” 116

VI TWO LITERARY LADIES OF LONDON: KATHERINE MANSFIELD
AND REBECCA WEST 151

VII TWO LESSER LITERARY LADIES OF LONDON: STELLA BENSON
AND VIRGINIA WOOLF 181

VIII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DIARIST: W. N. T. BARBELLION 191

IX THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DIARIST: HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL 219

X GEORGES DUHAMEL: POET, PACIFIST, AND PHYSICIAN 237

XI EVEN YET IT CAN'T BE TOLD--THE WHOLE TRUTH
ABOUT D. H. LAWRENCE 256

XII THE JOY OF LIVING AND WRITING ABOUT IT: JOHN ST.
LOE STRACHEY 289

XIII THE KING OF GATH UNTO HIS SERVANT: MAGAZINE INSANITY 307

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

JAMES JOYCE 37

FEODOR DOSTOIEVSKY 63

MARCEL PROUST IN 1890 119

A PAGE OF CORRECTED PROOF SHOWING MARCEL PROUST'S METHOD
OF REVISION 127

KATHERINE MANSFIELD 153

REBECCA WEST 173
Photograph by _Yevonde, London_

STELLA BENSON 183

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL 221

GEORGES DUHAMEL 239
From a Drawing by _Ivan Opffer_ in _THE BOOKMAN_

D. H. LAWRENCE 259

D. H. LAWRENCE 267
From a drawing by _Jan Juta_

J. ST. LOE STRACHEY 291
From a Drawing by _W. Rothenstein_

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AT LITERATURE

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AT LITERATURE