Index:Bierce - Collected Works - Volume 10.djvu
CONTENTS PAGE THE OPINIONATOR
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
A Dead Lion 212 The Short Story . . . . . . .234 Who are Great? 249 Poetry and Verse 256 Thought and Feeling 274 THE TIMOROUS REPORTER The Passing of Satire »8i Some Disadvantages of Genius .... 285 Our Sacrosanct Orthography 299 The Author as an Opportunity . . . .306 On Posthumous Renown 311 The Crime of Inattention . . . . .317 Fetishism 321 Our Audible Sisters 327 The New Penology 331 The Nature of War 336 How TO Grow Great . . . . . .342 A War in the Orient 346 A Just Decision 356 The Lion's Den 360 THE MARCH HARE A Flourishing Industry -369 The Rural Press 373 To "Elevate the Stage" 376 Pectolite 379 La Boulangere .382 Advice to Old Men '385 A Dubious Vindication 388 The Jamaican Mongoose 391 |