XX. GEORGIANS
(1) MR. DE LA MARE
(2) THE GROUP
(3) THE YOUNG SATIRISTS

XXI. LABOUR OF AUTHORSHIP

XXII. THE THEORY OF POETRY

XXIII. THE CRITIC AS DESTROYER

XXIV. BOOK REVIEWING




THE ART OF LETTERS




I.--MR. PEPYS


Mr. Pepys was a Puritan. Froude once painted a portrait of Bunyan as an
old Cavalier. He almost persuaded one that it was true till the later
discovery of Bunyan's name on the muster-roll of one of Cromwell's
regiments showed that he had been a Puritan from the beginning. If one
calls Mr. Pepys a Puritan, however, one does not do so for the love of
paradox or at a guess. He tells us himself that he "was a great Roundhead