Old and New Masters

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Old and New Masters, by Robert Lynd This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Old and New Masters Author: Robert Lynd Release Date: June 13, 2004 [EBook #12600] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD AND NEW MASTERS *** Produced by Christine Gehring, Christine Gehring, Wilelmina Mallière and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. OLD AND NEW MASTERS BY ROBERT LYND First Published 1919 TO SYLVIA LYND CONTENTS I. DOSTOEVSKY THE SENSATIONALIST II. JANE AUSTEN: NATURAL HISTORIAN III. MR. G.K. CHESTERTON AND MR. HILAIRE BELLOC (1) THE HEAVENLY TWINS (2) THE COPIOUSNESS OF MR. BELLOC (3) THE TWO MR. CHESTERTONS IV. WORDSWORTH (1) HIS PERSONALITY AND GENIUS (2) HIS POLITICS V. KEATS (1) THE BIOGRAPHY (2) THE MATTHEW ARNOLD VIEW VI. HENRY JAMES (1) THE NOVELIST OF GRAINS AND SCRUPLES (2) THE ARTIST AT WORK (3) HOW HE WAS BORN AGAIN VII. BROWNING: THE POET OF LOVE VIII. THE FAME OF J.M. SYNGE IX. VILLON: THE GENIUS OF THE TAVERN X. POPE XI. JAMES ELROY FLECKER XII. TURGENEV XIII. THE MADNESS OF STRINDBERG XIV. "THE PRINCE OF FRENCH POETS" XV. ROSSETTI AND RITUAL XVI. MR. BERNARD SHAW XVII. MR. MASEFIELD'S SECRET XVIII. MR. W.B.