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<p>A memorable night in London.--The war no "three weeks' job."--Books read on Christmas days.--On careless reading.--A new voice in the essay.--The snobbishness of books.--The German mind.--The decline of Sir Walter Scott!--The writing of essays.--Escape for thy life.--Reflections on anthologies.--Looking back on the Carlyles.--"The best friends are old friends."--A late view of Arnold Bennett.--Significance in literature.--A religious peripatetic.--An arrested mind.--War as a maker of poets.--Philosophy and peace of mind.--The apotheosis of W. H. Davies.--Literature and American friendship.--Books and the genius loci.--A taste for poverty.--The simple life.--Literature and personalities.--Death and premonition.--An overrated author.--Stopford Brooke's literary influence.--New and old believers.--Poets and pessimism.--A vanished school of novelists.--The indestructibility of literature.--The cliché in literature.--Literature and speech.--Disjecta membra
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<br>Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Books and reading; English literature -- 19th century History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century History and criticism</div>
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