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Title vignette
Introductory note.--Rudyard Kipling: The light that failed; Life's handicap; Barrack-room ballads.--R.L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne: The wrecker.--John Davidson: Ballads and songs.--William Morris: News from nowhere.--Mrs. Humphry Ward: Marcella.--George Meredith: One of our conquerors.--Austin Dobson: Eighteenth century vignettes.--Nicolas Caussin: The holy court.--Cardinal Manning: Pastime papers.--Richard Le Gallienne: The religion of a literary man