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15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "M. Henry Houssaye, did not assert that M. Charmes had ever written anything more important or less mortal than leaders and paragraphs in the _Journal des Débats_. M. Henry Houssaye was himself once a journalist. But he thought better of that, and became a historian. He has writt... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince Prigio and part-author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The World's Desire. And we journalists have surely an adequate spokesman in the person of the author of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lost Leaders."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "should have recurred in a painful and acute form. It is a platitude of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Literary Pages that Anglo-Saxon writers cannot possess themselves of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The only reason advanced has been that Guy du M... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go out and spend something."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can never be content until this class walks along the street in a different manner, until that now absurd legend has been worn clean off its forehead. Henry Harland was not a great writer, but he said: _Il faut souffrir pour être sel._ I ask myself impatiently:"
},
{
"... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cuts the steerage off from it more effectually than many bulkheads. You perceive also from that tone that it could never be surprised by anything that the steerage might do. Curious social phenomenon, the steerage! In the saloon there runs a code, the only possible code, the fin... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "William the Conqueror and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Brushwood Boy. J.M. Barrie, never. W.W. Jacobs, never. Murray Gilchrist, never. Joseph Conrad, never. Leonard Merrick, very slightly. George Moore, in a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drama in... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye-es! with a whole tail of unspoken"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "lying behind it. Occasionally you catch the ecstatic note,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! _Yes_; a _sweet_ book! Or, with masculine curtness:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gale's Special. I will deal only with the comparatively enlightened crust--employers, clerks, officials, and professional men, and their families--which has formed on the top of the mass, with an average income of possibly two hundred per annum per family. This crust is the élit... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or lithographers. Enter their shops, and you will see a few books. Tennyson in gilt. Volumes of the Temple Classics or Everyman. Hymn-books, Bibles. The latest cheap Shakespeare. Of new books no example except the brothers Hocking. The stationer will tell you that there is no de... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wells? exclaimed a smart, positive little woman--one of those creatures that have settled every question once and for all beyond reopening,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wells? No! I draw the line at Wells. He stirs up the dregs. I don't mind the froth, but dregs I-... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love and Mr. Lewisham and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kipps, with the large manner of the paramount synthetic scenes in (what general usage compels me to term) his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the scientific romance he achieved, by means of para... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Extremely clever, says Claudius Clear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is, however, no sign of any new power. But, by way of further praise:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The episodes are carefully selected and put together with skill, and there a... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Kiss and Other Stories, translated by Mr. R.E.C. Long and published by Duckworth (6s.). A similar volume,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Black Monk (same translator and publisher), was issued some years ago. Tchehkoff lived and made a tremendous name in Russi... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer (Duckworth) has, after two years, reached the distinction of a cheap edition at half a crown. I shall be surprised if this book does not continue to sell for about a hundred years. And yet, also, I am surprised that a cheap edition should have come s... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bettesworth Book"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poems and Ballads came near to being burnt publicly by the hangman. (By"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean newspaper readers. The real nation, busy with the problem of eating, dying, and being born all in one room, has never heard of either Tennyson or Swinburne o... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "about his face. I don't mind, either for Swinburne or for Putney. I reflect that if Putney ignored Swinburne, he ignored Putney. And I reflect that there is great stuff in Putney for a poet, and marvel that Swinburne never perceived it and used it. He must have been born English... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paris Sketch-Book"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Richard Feverel, what a loosening of the bonds! What a renaissance! Nobody since Fielding would have ventured to write the Star and Garter chapter in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Richard Feverel. It was the announcer of a sort of dawn. But there are fearful faults ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at a time when Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's nose had the ineffable majesty of the Queen of Spain's leg. And the _Pall Mall_ haughtily rebuked him. A spectacle for history! He said aloud in a ballroom that Guy de Maupassant was the greatest novelist that ever lived. To think so was n... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He belonged, said the gentleman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charm--yes, for the publisher. The secret history of the publishing of Meredith's earlier books (long before Constables had ever dreamed of publishing him) is more than curious. I have heard some details... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if I admit _x_ to be true, I am doing away with the incentive to righteousness. _Therefore_ I shall not admit _x_ to be true."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never leave my house to journey in any direction, but I am forced to see, and solicited to buy, works flamingly advertised of which the gospel is adultery and the apocalypse the right of suicide. (No! I am not parodying Dr. B... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "stage in his mood towards women. He makes a pin say:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She dropped me, pity my despair! which is in the worst tradition of _Westminster Gazette_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Occ. Verse. He is somewhat too much occupied wit... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthony Trollope died in the December of 1882, and in the following year a fatal, perhaps an irreparable, blow to his reputation was struck by the publication of his autobiography. The conceit of a blow which in addition to being fatal is perhaps also irreparable is diverting. B... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was conscious of a twinge as I saw his swift glance round the field. He then hit my first ball clean out of it; from my second he made two; from my third another two; the fourth and fifth wanted playing; and the sixth he hit over my head among some distant haymakers."
},
{... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Government of the Republic could not allow the fiftieth anniversary of the 'Legend of the Centuries' to be celebrated without associating itself with the events. My fancy views Mr. Herbert John Gladstone--yes, him!--standing discreetly in front of an indiscreet marble Wordsw... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laocoon"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Actions and Reactions. It has induced gloom in me; yet a modified gloom. Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plain Tales from the Hills delighted first Anglo-Indian, and then English society. There was nothing of permanent va... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Actions and Reactions is entitled"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An Habitation Enforced, and it displays the amused but genuine awe of a couple of decent rich Americans confronted by the sæcular wonders of the English land system. It depends for its sharp point on a ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life's Handicap, and tasted again the flavour of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On Greenhow Hill,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was set in motion, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "were made to the libraries; indeed, the libraries were given to understand that unless they did something themselves"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is an ambition, like another. And one may admit that Messrs. Hutchinson have fairly well succeeded in it. Mr. Heinemann issues as much really high-class literature as any publisher in London, but if his policy has had a"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel would never, as a new work, pass a library censorship. Nor would"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jude the Obscure,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look at the matter from quite the wrong point of view. There is only one point of view, and that is the subscribers'. The Libraries don't exist for authors, but for us (he is a subscriber to Mudie's). We pay, and the Libraries are for our convenience. They are not for the fu... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Comédie Humaine furnished by the library, one of the works which she had been instructed to peruse. Hearing of this, the man, whose curiosity was aroused, called at the library to conduct an inquiry. He had an interview with one of the managers, and the manager at once admitted ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ann Veronica was under discussion, Canon Lambert procured for the name of Lambert a free advertisement throughout the length and breadth of the country by saying:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would just as soon send a daughter of mine to a house infected with dip... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ann Veronica was banned from the Free Public Libraries of free Hull. But I cull the following from the _Hull Daily Mail_:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A local bookseller had thirteen orders for 'Ann Veronica' on Monday, thirty on Tuesday, and scores since. Previous... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ann Veronica"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ann Veronica"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which is most distinctly libellous. But possibly the correspondent and the newspaper felt themselves secure in Mr. Wells's disdain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ann Veronica is not pornographic. It is not ev... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ann Veronica is not to be found in the public libraries of sundry large towns. But the reason may not be connected with the iconoclasm of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ann Veronica. In an interview, Mr. T.W. Hand, the librarian at Leeds, said:"
},
{
"from": ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Esther Waters, recognized, I believe, as one of the most serious and superb of modern novels. The work was included in the catalogue of the Library. In reply to her request she was informed that she could not have"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Esther Waters unless s... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anna Karenina,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Resurrection,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tess,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jude the Obscure, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tono-Bungay are banned. Further, and still mor... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man and Superman."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Measure for Measure,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Trois Filles de Monsieur Dupont (which pleased me pretty well so far as I comprehended its dramatic intention), I have not seen one which I could refrain from despising. Brieux's plays always begin so brilliantly, and they always end so feebly, in such a wishwash of sentimen... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Avariés. It contains an admirable sermon, a really effective sermon, animated by ideas which I suppose have been in the minds of exceptionally intelligent men for a hundred years or so, and which Brieux restated in terms of dramatic eloquence. But the sentimentality of the e... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Hind Let Loose (Methuen, 6s.), and I am not going to advise any one to follow my example. I do not desire to prejudice his circulation, but I have my conscience to consider. This is not a book for the intelligent masses; it would be folly to recommend it to them. It is for the... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am awfully sorry that we cannot take your novel, which is immensely clever, and which interested my partner more than anything he has read in a good while. He agrees with me, however, that it has not got the qualities that make for a sale, and you know that this is the great d... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Landmarks in Russian Literature (Methuen, 6s. net). It deals with Gogol, Tourgeniev, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, and Tchehkoff. It is unpretentious. It is not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish it had been more literary. Mr. Baring seems to have a greater love for liter... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the Eve is the most perfect example of the novel yet produced in any country. And I am not sure that I am yet prepared to go back on myself. However, it is absurd to argue that Russians cannot judge their own authors. The best judges of Russian authors must be Russians. Think... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Brothers Karamazov, of which I had not heard. It was a French translation, in two thick volumes. I thought it contained some of the greatest scenes that I had ever encountered in fiction, and I at once classed it with Stendhal's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cha... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Man of Property. Well, it stands the test. It is certainly the most perfect of Mr. Galsworthy's novels up to now. Except for the confused impression caused by the too rapid presentation of all the numerous members of the Forsyte family at the opening, it has practically no fau... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This makes, within a month, the third toothsome dish as to which I have had the exasperating news that it is being reserved for that spoiled child, posterity. I may say, however, that I do not regard"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De Profundis as one of Wilde's best ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to take up the study of German. Indeed prison seems to be the proper place for such a study. On the subject of the natural life, he says a thing which is exquisitely wise:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stevenson's letters are most disappointing also. I se... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Seven that were Hanged, was published in England--last year, I think--by Mr. Fifield. It received a very great deal of praise, and was, in fact, treated as a psychological masterpiece. I was disappointed with it myself, for the very simple reason that I found it tedious. I h... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What has all this got to do with Love? Her husband never read, either. Their friends did not read, not even newspapers. But another couple had an infant, aged three, and this infant had a rather fierce grandmother, and this grandmother read a great deal. She and I alone stood fo... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he's written a very remarkable novel, but he doesn't know how to eat an artichoke."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Conrad!"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in novels, and in each case I particularly regretted the sad breakdown. Gabriele d'Annunzio's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forse che si forse che no has been my undoing. I began it in the French version by Donatella Cross (Calmann-Lévy, 3 fr. 50), and I began it wi... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Shadow of a Titan (Duckworth, 6s.). For this I am genuinely sorry; I had great hopes of it. I was seriously informed that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Shadow of a Titan is a first-class thing, something to make one quote Keats's"
},
{
"from": "human... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Thread of Gold, ministers to all that is highest and most sacred in the Mudie temperament. It is not a new book; only I have been getting behind-hand. It was first printed in 1905, and it seems to have been on and off the printing-presses ever since, and now Mr. Murray has i... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't you be good enough to let us hear from you? Or,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are anxious [underlined] to see your output. Imagine that from an English editor! And they contrive to say what they mean, picturesquely. One editor wrote me:"
},
{
"from"... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Idle to argue that genuine artists ought to be indifferent to money! They are not. And what is still more curious, they will seldom produce their best work unless they really do want money."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Comédie Humaine to Balzac's extravagant imprudence. It is equally sure that Scott's mania for landed estate was responsible for a very considerable part of his artistic output. And so on. When once an artist has"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Parisienne."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Parisienne. The other is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Les Corbeaux. Once, when I was in Paris, I saw exposed among a million other books in front of the window of Stock's shop near the Théâtre Français, a copy of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Corbeaux was originally produced at the Théâtre Français, where it was not a success. All Becque's recent fame is due, after Becque, to Antoine. But now that Antoine has done all the hard work, Jules Claretie, the flaccid director of the Français, shows a natural desire to s... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every year on this day we will gather here. His name shall be a flag for us. But for several years they forgot all about Becque. And when at length they did come back, with a wreath, they could not find the grave. It was necessary to question keepers and to consult the official ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are one or two promising items, including a novel by Henry James. And yet, honestly, am I likely at this time of day to be excited by a novel by Henry James? Shall I even read it? I know that I shall not. Still, I shall put it on my shelves, and tell my juniors what a mira... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His Hour (Duckworth, 6s.) Everybody who cares for literature knows, or should know, Mrs. Glyn's fine carelessness of popular opinion (either here or in the States), and the singleness of her regard for the art which she practises and which she honours. Troubling herself about na... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His Hour is a sexual novel. It is magnificently sexual. My quotations, of course, do less than justice to it, but I think I have made clear the simple and highly courageous plot. Gritzko desired Tamara with the extreme of amorous passion, and in order to win her entirely he allo... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "than Mr. W.H. Hudson, and few among the living more likely to be regarded, a hundred years hence, as having produced"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is so unassuming, so mild, so intensely and unconsciously original in the expression of his naïve emotions before th... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neo-Impressionists, over which the culture of London is now laughing, has an interest which is perhaps not confined to the art of painting. For me, personally, it has a slight, vague repercussion upon literature. The attitude of the culture of London towards it is of course mere... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "photographs, I have permitted myself to suspect that supposing some writer were to come along and do in words what these men have done in paint, I might conceivably be disgusted with nearly the whole of modern fiction, and I might have to begin again. This awkward experience wil... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A critic without space to spread himself hesitates to pronounce downright for a particular book. A critic engaged in the dangerous art of creating the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "wants room to hedge, and in the newest journalism there is no room to hedge. So the c... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dop Doctor (published by Heinemann) and Mr. Temple Thurston's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "City of Beautiful Nonsense (published by Chapman and Hall) have both sold very well indeed throughout the entire year. In fact, they were selling better in December than many... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Howard's End"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE NEW MACHIAVELLI"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The New Machiavelli has reduced almost to silence the ignoble tittle-tattle that accompanied its serial publication in the _English Review_. It is years since a novel gave rise to so much offensive and ridiculous cha... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The New Machiavelli has been received with the respect and with the enthusiasm which its tremendous qualities deserve. It is a great success. And the reviews have on the whole been generous. It was perhaps not to be expected that certain Radical dailies should swallow the entire... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The New Machiavelli"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Encyclopædia Britannica"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will insult you. He will inform you that he has forty candidates for the most insignificant post on the editorial staff, and that there is not the remotest chance for you. You then tell him that you are an expert writer, a contributor to the monthlies and quarterlies, and the... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marie Claire"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Street of To-day (Dent and Co.), with much interest. But I found it very difficult to read. This is a damning criticism; but what would you have? I found it very difficult to read. It is very earnest, very sincere, very carefully and generously done. But these qualities will... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Backwash. Now no paper could possibly be called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Backwash. It is conceivable that a paper might be called"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Tip Top. It is just conceivable that a paper might be called"
},
{
... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They entered the tube station. In the train they could not talk much. Lionel kept his brain alert with surmise as to the character of the passengers. Like Blake, a century before, he found 'marks of weakness, marks of woe,' on each face there. Blake in the tube! Mr. Masefield wi... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "public in the mass! It is a sight to make one think. My cab had gone up Bond Street, where the fortune-tellers flourish, and their flags wave in the wind, and their painted white hands point alluringly up mysterious staircases. These fortune-tellers make a tolerable deal of mone... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cherry Orchard, I have been told, is Tchehkoff's dramatic masterpiece, and I can well believe it. But it is a dangerous thing to present foreign masterpieces to a West End audience, and the directors of the Stage Society discovered, or rediscovered, this fact on Sunday night... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If our people won't stand it, it has no chance, because we have the pick here."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cherry Orchard"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No such persons exist, or at any rate such persons are too exceptional to form proper material for a work of art. No such persons, I admit, exist in England; but then this play happens to be concerned with Russia, and even the men's costumes in it are appalling. Moreover, person... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L'Ève Future was a really fine novel. I bought it, and I was so upset, in my narrow youthfulness, to find that the author had made a hero of Thomas Alva Edison, and called him by his name, that I could not accomplish more than two chapters. Later I was again informed that"
},
... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nineteenth-Century Prose, 5 _Blackwood's Magazine_, 325 Blake, William, 18, 314 Book in a railway accident, a, 328 _Bookman_, the, 5, 143 Book-buyer, the, 32, 71 Book-market, the, 133 Book-pedlar, the, 105 Books of the Year, 77, 289 Boot, Sir Jesse, 106, 173 Booth, E.C.,"
},
... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cherry Orchard, The,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Profundis,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's, 77 _Edinburgh Review_, the, on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ugliness in Fiction, 8"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Editions, French and English, 59 Eliot, George, 8, 135 Elton, Oliver, 269 Emerson, R.W., 190"
},
{
"from"... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His Hour, 271 censorship by the, 167, 181, 271 Library, the Municipal Free, 104 Literary criticism, English, 267 Literary periodical, the, 242 Liverpool, 44 London, 160; and the Neo-Impressionists, 280 a book on, 3 the potential reading public of, 101 the Bishop of, 77 Longfello... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "New Machiavelli, The, 294-299 New York, 160, 161 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 3 Nicoll, Sir William Robertson, 5, 26, 29, 67, 114, 222, 319 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 78 Norris, W.E., 49 Novel, a"
}
] |
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