目录<br />1、 SIR FRANCIS BACON(1561-1626), Narcissus; or Self-Love<br />2、 ABRAHAM COWLEY(1618-1667), Of Avarice<br />3、 JONATHAN SWIFT(1667-1745), A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding<br />4、 LORD CHESTERFIELD(1694-1773), Upon Affectation<br />5、 JOSEPH ADDISON(1672-1719), Thoughts in Westminsters Abbey<br />6、 SIR RICHARD STEELE(1672-1729), On Recollections of Childhood<br />7、 SAMUEL JOHNSON(1709-1784), Conversation<br />8、 DAVID HUME(1711-1776), Of the Dignity of Meanness of Human Nature<br />9、 OLIVER GOLDSMITH(?1730-1774), A Little Great Man<br />10、JAMES BOSWELL(1740-1795), First Meeting with Johnson<br />11、CHARLES LAMB(1775-1834), The Child Angel: a Dream<br />12、WILLIAM HAZLITT(1778-1830), On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin<br />13、JAMES H.L.HUNT(1784-1859), Getting Up on Cold Mornings<br />14、THOMAS DE QUINCEY(1785-1859), On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth<br />15、MATTHEW ARNOLD(1822-1888), Heine and the Philistines<br />16、WILLIAM HALE WHITE(1831-1913), An Afternoon Walk in October<br />17、W.H.HUDSON(1841-1922), Her Own Village<br />18、ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922), July<br />19、RICHARD JEFFERIES(1848-1887), The Acorn-Gatherer<br />20、SIR EDMUND GOSSE(1849-1928), A Visit to Walt Whitman<br />21、AUGUSTINE BIRRELL(1850-1933), Book-Buying<br />22、OSCAR WILDE(1854-1900), Impressions of America<br />23、ARTHUR CLUTTON-BROCK(1868-1924), Sunday Before the War<br />24、HILAIRE BELLOC(1870-1953), Our Inheritance<br />25、SIR MAX BEERBOHM(1872-1956), The Morris Dancers<br />26、BERTRAND RUSSELL(1872-1970), On Being Modern-Minded<br />27、G.K. CHESTERTON(1874-1936), French and English<br />28、ROBERT LYND(1879-1949), The Darkness<br />29、E.M. FORSTER(1879-1970), My Wood<br />30、ROSE MACAULAY(1881-1958), Evening Parties<br />31、VIRGINIA WOOLF(1882-1941), On a Faithful Friend<br />32、D.H. LAWRENCE(1885-1930), Insouciance<br />33、JOYCE CARY(1888-1957), The Artist and the World<br />34、ALDOUS L. HUXLEY(1894-1963), Meditation on the Moon<br />35、J.B. PRIESTLEY(1894-1984), The Toy Farm<br />36、GEORGE ORWELL(1903-1950), Reflections on Gandhi<br />37、EVELYN WAUGH(1903-1966), Take Your Home into Your Own Hands!<br />38、CYRIL CONNOLLY(1903-1974), The Ant-Lion<br />39、WILLIAM EMPSON(1906-1984), The Faces of Buddha<br />40、ALFRED ALVAREZ(1929-), Death of the Poet