Essays in European and Oriental Literature

London: W. Heinemann, 1923. First U.K. Edition. Octavo in blue polished & ribbed cloth; xiii, 339 pages 20 cm Tight and clean with minor insect nibbles to portions of board edges. Very good(++). Hardcover.

A crisp copy. Contents: The Future of Idealism. Idealism and Naturalism. Realism and Idealism. A Lesson of Literary Evolution. Science and Literature. Decadence as a Fine Art. Eclecticism in Periodical Literature. A Mad Romantic (Gerard de Nerval). The Idol of a Great Eccentric (Baudelaire). The Friends of Flaubert. An Archaeological Novel (Salammbo). A Great Prosateur (Maupassant). Literary Pessimism (Bel ami). Solitude (Maupassant). A Defense of Pessimism (Maupassant). Women of the Sword (Mademoiselle de Maupin). Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames. L’Oeuvre (Zola). A New Romantic (Loti). The Most Original of Modern Novelists (Loti). Plot-Formation in Modern Novels (Loti). The Nation on Loti. The Religion of Suffering (Bourget’s Crime of love). Some Curious Memoirs (Goncourt). The Fear of Death. A Reminiscence of Bohemia (Murger’s Vie de Boheme). “Lettered Misery.” (Continued) Russian Literature Abroad. A Terrible Novel (Crime and punishment). Tolstoi’s Vanity of Wisdom. The Two Arnolds. Not Without Honor Save in His Own Country (Edwin Arnold). Edwin Arnold’s New Book. A Definitive Rossetti. Some Human Frailty (Rossetti). Tennyson’s Locksley Hall. Henri Heine’s Wife. More Notes on Heine. De Mercier on Dante. What Buddhism Is. Recent Buddhist Literature. The Datavaya Bharata Karyalaya. The Song Celestial. Indian Female Poets. The Epic of Kings. Chinese Belief in God. A Peep at Japanese Poetry.