The justification of impressions.--The music of prose.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.--The charm of autobiography.--Music and form.--The burden of Christina Rossetti.--Nathaniel Hawthorne's paradox.--Some skylark poems.--Annie Keary.--The hypocrite of fiction.--Mr. Du Maurier's magic mirror.--In Elleray wood.--The lady of Shalott.--Sandycombes.--Two Thanet sketches: In Birchington churchyard. A Ramsgate Arabian night.
"Some of the ... essays appear for the first time, two are reprinted from a little book of mine ... but the large remainder consists of papers which have previously been published in various magazines and journals."--Author's note.