CONTENTS


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I _Literature in the New Century_ 1

II _The Supreme Leaders_ 27

III _An Apology for Technic_ 49

IV _Old Friends with New Faces_ 73

V _Invention and Imagination_ 95

VI _Poe and the Detective-story_ 111

VII _Mark Twain_ 137

VIII _A Note on Maupassant_ 167

IX _The Modern Novel and the Modern Play_ 179

X _The Literary Merit of our Latter-day Drama_ 205