Aspects of Fiction And Other Ventures in Criticism

American literature.--Two studies of the South.--The penalty of humor.--On pleasing the taste of the public.--On certain parallelisms between the ancient drama and the modern.--The importance of the folk-theatre.--Two French dramatic critics: M. Francisque Sarcey; M. Jules Lemaître.--Two Scotsmen of letters: Mr. Andrew Lang; Robert Louis Stevenson.--Aspects of fiction: The gift of story-telling; Cervantes, Zola, Kipling & co.; The prose tales of M. François Coppée; The short stories of M. Lud