Chapter 18

LITERATURE AND ACTION 343

Literature as Speech Made Permanent--All Written Speech Not Literature--The Essence of Literature for Its Own Sake--Prose as a Fine Art--Some Interesting Aspects of Literature as an End in Itself--Their Comparative Triviality--No Literature Great Which Is Not More Than Literature--Literature as a Vehicle of Religion--Lucretius--_The Reconstruction of Belief_

INDEX 373

ILLUSTRATIONS

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE _Frontispiece_

ROBERT BROWNING _Facing p. 30_

THOMAS CARLYLE " 64

JOHN RUSKIN " 86

OUIDA " 126

CARDINAL MANNING " 134

HERBERT SPENCER " 266

THEODORE ROOSEVELT " 318

MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE