Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_Some of these essays have appeared in THE LONDON MERCURY, THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE OUTLOOK, and THE CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. Others have been selected from a large number I contributed (week by week, under the pseudonym of ‘Peter of Pomfret’) to the YORKSHIRE OBSERVER. Others aga...
Unlike the serious amateurs, we do not pick and choose among pieces until we have found one to which we can give the cold glitter of an impeccable rendering. We attend concerts...
9. Part 9A short time ago, at the house of some friends, a cranky set, he was introduced to a Hindoo who had just arrived in this country, and who might be called Ram Dar Chubb. They sai...
6. Part 6A pipe and an occasional glass served Wimpenny-Brown as a tribute to the bohemianism of his profession; as hostages to respectability he had a pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses at...
4. Part 4The remark refers, of course, to our English habit of relying upon experience or even mere weight of years. We are--or have been--so apt to listen to a man only when he is totte...
10. Part 10Perhaps to some of us the moments of revelation, the flashes of insight, never come at all; to the best of us they come but rarely. Life has seemed to us, for months or years ma...
7. Part 7Best of all, his voice, that one talent which removed him from common men, was there in all its pristine fullness. He spoke in the manner of his kind; in that accent which owns...
11. Part 11It was shortly after the appearance of _Nullity_, if my memory serves me, that I met the poet for the first time. I had dropped into the habit of looking in at Ivorstein’s studi...
3. Part 3When did it begin? In its primary form, no doubt it is a characteristic as old as literature itself. It is there, full-fledged, in Aristophanes. The Hebrew chroniclers and proph...
5. Part 5I have not seen him for years, but I can call him well to mind even now; a little man with hair loosely parted in the centre and falling over his temples, and eyeglasses insecur...
1. Part 1_Some of these essays have appeared in THE LONDON MERCURY, THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE OUTLOOK, and THE CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. Others have been selected from a large number I contrib...
2. Part 2But while we are thus to some extent restricted--and after all, does not art imply restriction?--yet within these bounds there is ample freedom. The writer is at liberty to choo...
12. Part 12Of the excellent persons who enjoyed such famous hospitality we know little, with the exception of two to be noticed hereafter. But they seem to have been all of one sex. In the...