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Title: Pot-Boilers

Author: Clive Bell

Release Date: February 8, 2010 [eBook #31229]

Language: English

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POT-BOILERS

by

CLIVE BELL

London
Chatto & Windus
MCMXVIII

Printed at the Complete Press
West Norwood
London

CONTENTS

PAGE
FOREWORD 1

MONTAIGNE IN FACSIMILE 17

IBSEN 28

MISS COLERIDGE 41

PEACOCK 50

BOSWELL'S LETTERS 74

CARLYLE'S LOVES AND LOVE-LETTERS 82

THE LYSISTRATA 99

TRELAWNY'S LETTERS 115

SOPHOCLES IN LONDON 126

THE FLIGHT OF THE DRAGON 135

WILLIAM MORRIS 146

PERSIAN MINIATURES 156

COUNTERCHECK QUARRELSOME 165

PICTURE SHOWS:
I. THE LONDON SALON 174
II. ENGLISH POST-IMPRESSIONISTS 179
III. AN EXPENSIVE "MASTERPIECE" 188
IV. MARCHAND 194
V. THE MANSARD GALLERY 199

CONTEMPORARY ART IN ENGLAND 209

ART AND WAR 231

BEFORE THE WAR