Fame And Fiction; An Inquiry Into Certain Popularities

"Except the first and the final chapters, the substance of this book was printed at intervals during the last three years in the columns of the Academy." The "average reader", and the recipe for popularity.--Miss Braddon.--Mr. J.M. Barrie.--Charlotte M. Yonge.--Miss Rhoda Broughton.--Madame Sarah Grand.--"The master Christian."--Miss E.T. Fowler.--"Red pottage."--A note on the revolution in journalism.--The fiction of popular magazines.--Mr. Silas Hocking.--The craze for historical fiction in Am