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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                                                    247




FOREWORD


DEAR GEOFFREY WHITWORTH,--Considering for how many ages how many clever
people have been complaining of their publishers, you might have
supposed that no device for getting one of them into a scrape could have
been left untried. Yet, so far as I can remember, no author has had the
bright idea of denouncing his publisher, particularly, and by name, as
accessory before the fact. I am willing to suspect my memory rather than
my profession of being at fault in this matter; but that the practice is
uncommon is most certain and that, surely, is very strange. No author
thinks twice of saddling his friend, his wife, his mother, or even his
mistress with