CONTENTS:

PREFACE
1. INTRODUCTORY
2. ARTFUL VIRTUOSITY: Henry James
3. TEACHERS: Shaw and Wells
4. CATHOLIC LIBERALISM: Belloc and Chesterton
5. FANCY FAIR: Barrie, Milne, James Stephens
6. TRAVELLERS: R. B. Cunninghame Graham, W. H. Hudson, Joseph Conrad, H. M. Tomlinson, Norman Douglas
7. BLACK AND WHITE: George Moore, Arnold, Bennett, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham
8. THE CRITICAL THEATRE:  Granville-Barker, Allan Monkhouse, St. John Ervine
9. LITERARY MEN: E. V. Lucas, Edward Garnett, Ford Madox Hueffer, Max Beerbohm, C. E. Montague, Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry
10. POETS BEFORE 1914: Robert Bridges, W. B. Yeats, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, James Elroy Flecker, J. C. Squire and the Georgians
11. THE NOVELISTS OF THE NEXT GENERATION: Rose Macaulay, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Henry Handel Richardson, Oliver Onions, J. D. Beresford, Compton Mackenzie, Hugh Walpole, Gilbert Cannan, Francis Brett Young, Constance Holme, Mary Webb
12. THE WAR-TIME AFFLATUS, 1914-1918: Charlotte Mew, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, The Sitwells
13. BLOOMSBURY: Bertrand Russell, Roger Fry and Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf
14. POST-FREUD: May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce
15. AN INTER-WAR SYMPTOM: Edgar Wallace and Others
16. INTER-WAR PESSIMISM: Aldous Huxley, Noel Coward, Richard Aldington, Wyndham Lewis
17. SOME LATER NOVELISTS: David Garnett, P. G. Wodehouse, J. B. Priestley, A. P. Herbert
18. LATER VISIONS: T. S. Eliot and the New Academicism