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Prefatory Note
PART I. THE PRESENT Notes on the English Character Mrs. Grundy at the Parkers’ “It Is Different for Me” My Wood Me, Them and You A Voter’s Dilemma Our Graves in Gallipoli Happiness! Roger Fry: An Obituary Note Our Diversions 1. The Scallies 2. The Birth of an Empire 3. The Doll Souse 4. Mickey and Minnie 5. Chess at Cracow 6. The Game of Life 7. My Own Centenary Liberty in England PART II. BOOKS A Note on the Way Forrest Reid Ibsen the Romantic T. S. Eliot Proust Word-Making and Sound-Taking The Early Novels of Virginia Woolf Ronald Firbank Howard Overing Sturgis Sinclair Lewis Joseph Conrad: A Note T. E. Lawrence Jane Austen 1. The Six Novels 2. Sanditon 3. The Letters PART III. THE PAST The Consolations of History Macolnia Shops Cnidus Gemistus Pletho Cardan Voltaire’s Laboratory 1. How They Weighed Fire 2. Troublesome Molluscs Captain Edward Gibbon Trooper Silas Tomkyn Comberbacke Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties Mrs. Hannah More Battersea Rise PART IV. THE EAST Salute to the Orient! The Mosque Wilfrid Blunt 1. The Earlier Diaries (1888-1900) 2. The Later Diaries (1900-1914) For the Museum’s Sake Marco Polo The Emperor Babur Adrift in India 1. The Nine Gems of Ujjain 2. Advance, India! 3. Jodhpur 4. The Suppliant 5. Pan Hickey’s Last Party Two Books by Tagore 1. Chitra 2. The Home and the World The Mind of the Indian Native State Hymn Before Action PART V. THE ABINGER PAGEANT Foreword to Visitors The Pageant Prologue Episode 1. From Briton to Norman Episode 2. The Middle Ages Episode 3. The Hammer Forge Episode 4. The Days of John Evelyn Episode 5. Smugglers and Other Gentry Episode 6. Towards Our Own Times The Epilogue |