●Part I. Qian Zhongshu in Europe (1935―1938)
No.1
1.Stray Notes
2.H. W. Horwill, Modern American Usage
3.George Saintsbury, The Later Nineteenth Century
4.T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
5.F. McD. C. Turner, The Element of Irony in English Literature
6.Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester
7.Benjamin Ifor Evans, English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century
8.Edward Shanks, First Essays on Literature
9.Warner Fite, The Living Mind
10.Louis Grudin, Mr. Eliot Among the Nightingales4
11.Richard Aldington, Literary Studies and Reviews
12.Hartley Burr Alexander, Nature and Human Nature
13.Warner Fite, The Platonic Legend
14.E. I. Watkin, A Philosophy of Form
15.Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Alfred de sset
16.Katherine Gilbert, Studies in Recent Aesthetic
17.James Sully, Pessimism: A History and a Criticism
18.Dewitt H. Parker, The Analysis of Art
19.Oliver Elton, Modern Studies
20.C. H. Herford, The t-War Mind of Germany and Other European Studies
21.John C. Bailey, The Claims of French Poetry
22.A History of Psychology in Autobiography
23.John Churton Collins, Ephemera Critica, or Plain Truths about Current Literature
24.L. C. Collins, Life and Memoirs of J. C. Collins
25.Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats
26.Irving Babbitt, The Masters of Modern French Criticism (to be continued)
27.Victor Basch, Essais d’Esthétique de Philosophie et de Littérature
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Author Index
Title Index
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