Revival: A Last Vintage (1950)

Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman; Clark, Arthur Melville; Muir, Augustus; Oliver, John

• 1. Preface by Augustus Muir 2. A Centenary Tribute by David Nichol Smith 3. The Last Years by Dorothy Margaret Stuart 4. The Man of Books by Helen Waddell 5. Essays and Paper by George Saintsbury 6. Early Twentieth Century Literature 7. A Study of Marryat 8.The Colloquies of Erasmus 9. Xenophon 10. A Reconsideration of Swinburne 11. The Poetry of Rossetti 12. Andrew Lang in the 'Seventies-And After 13. Bath Literature 14. Some Things Past 15. Specialisation 16. Ancient and Modern Languages 17. Dullness 18. Montaigne and Florio 19. Balzac's 'Oeuvres de Jeunesse' 20. Voltaire and Rousseau 21. Manon Lescaut 22. A Saintsbury Scrap Book I. Trivia II. The 'Modern' Touch in Phrase III. Of Writing in Books IV. Kipling's many Inventions' V. A Note on Criticism VI. Some Thoughts on Thackeray VII. The Problem of Translation VIII. Sir Walter: A Fanfare IX. Seventeenth Century Poetry X. Thomas Carlyle and Germany XI. On Education XII. A Note on Wigs XIII. Victor Hugo and Old Books XIV. Sensation Novelists XV. George Sand XVI. A Letter to Norman Douglas XVII. The Place of Boileau XVIII. Drummond and Ben Jonson XIX. Jonson's 'Discoveries' XX. Tobias Smollett XXI. Leigh Hunt as Poet XXII. Two Cellars: (I) A Sentimental Cellar (II) The Cellar of the Queen's Dolls' House XXIII. The Bounties of Bacchus XXIV. 'The Tale of a Tub' XXV. Dr. John Brown XXVI. Compulsory Greek at Oxford XXVII. Diderot's 'Salons' XXVIII. A Moment to Spare-For Proust XXIX. 'The Annals of the Parish' XXX. 'The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green' XXXI. Shakespeare and The Welsh XXXII. The Laurence Sterne Tittle-Tattle XXXIII. Things about Blake XXXIV. Notes on Six Poets XXXV. The Present State of Literature A Saintsbury Bibliography by W. M. Parker