Acknowledgments  ix

Foreword / Paget Henry  xi

Introduction to the American Edition / Robert Lipsyte  xvii

A Note on Cricket  xxiii

Preface  xxvii

Part One. A Window to the World  

1. The Window  3

2. Against the Current  21

3. Old School-tie  39

Part Two. All the World's a Stage  

4. The Light and the Dark  49

5. Patient Merit  66

6. Three Generations  72

7. The Most Unkindest Cut  82

Part Three. One Man in His Time  

8. Prince and Pauper  101

9. Magnanimity in Politics  117

10. Wherefore Are These Things Hid?  128

Part Four. To Interpose a Little Ease  

11. George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit  139

Part Five. W. G.: Pre-Eminent Victorian  

12. What Do Men Live By?  151

13. Prolegomena to W. G.  159

14. W. G.  171

15. Decline of the West  186

Part Six. The Art and Practic Part  

16. "What Is Art?"  195

17. The Welfare State of Mind  212

Part Seven. Vox Populi  

18. The Proof of the Pudding  225

19. Alma Mater: Lares and Penates  253

Epilogue and Apotheosis  257

Index  263

Paget Henry

Robert Lipsyte

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