Purity and pornography.--Sophism and Mr. Sherwood Anderson.--The big four of American women writers.--Heredity in fictional literature.--The psychology of the midget.--Gallantry and our women writers.--Nature versus art in recent French novels.--Footprints on the literary sands of time.--Unpleasant novels.--The study of the individual in fiction: psychological novels.--Mr. Frank Swinnerton and his books.--Reading matter for invalids and the novels of Mrs. Mary Webb.--Appetising first fruits.--Some French writers of the present day.--Vicarious sadism; or, Pleasure from smashing literary idols.-- Doctors as men of letters.--Feminism and fetid and foolish literature.--Lunatics of literature.