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