The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.--Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn.--Defoe.--Adison.--The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.--Jane Austen.--Modern fiction.--"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights."--George Eliot.--The Russian point of view.--Outlines: Miss Mitford. Dr. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.--The patron and the crocus.--The modern essay.--Joseph Conrad.--How it strikes a contemporary.
