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THE OPINIONATOR

The Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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On Literary Criticism 25

Stage Illusion 49

The Matter of Manner 57

On Reading New Books 65

AlphabStes and Border Ruffians .... 69

To Train a Writer 75

As TO Cartooning 79

The S. p. W 87

Portraits of Elderly Authors .... 95

Wit and Humor 98

Word Changes and Slang 103

The Ravages of SHAKSPEARiria .... 109

England's Laureate 113

Hall Caine on Hall Caining . . . .117

Visions of the Night 122

THE REVIEWER

Edwin Markham's Poems 137

"The Kreutzer Sonata" 149

Emma Frances Dawson 166

Marie Bashkirtseff 172

A Poet and His Poem 177

THE CONTROVERSIALIST

An Insurrection of the Peasantry . . . 189