Contents
Introduction
by Saros Cowasjee
Preface
to the Second Edition
A Drink with Bonamy Dobrée in the Museum Tavern
Lions and Shadows at the Sherry Party in Harold Monro’s Poetry Bookshop
In Café Italiano with Aldous Huxley
Crumpets with Nancy Cunard and Catherine Carswell at Whytelady’s
‘How Unpleasant to Meet Mr Eliot’: A Talk in the Etoile with T.S. Eliot and Bonamy Dobrée
God, Joad and Logical Positivism in the Lower Refectory
China Tea in Mr Binyon’s Study in the British Museum
Under the Chestnut Tree in Tavistock Square with E.M. Forster and Leonard Woolf
In a Public Bar with Harry Tomkins and Bill Bland
A Talk with Arthur Waley about the Asian Novel in Probsthain’s Bookshop
Feeding Pigeons with Auntie Emily Richardson in the British
Museum Courtyard
Tea and Empathy from Virginia Woolf
A Wordy Quarrel with Clive Bell at the Hogarth Press
Art Nonsense Talk with Eric Gill, Herbert Read and Stanley Morrison in
Gordon Square
White Gods and Dark Gods — A Talk with T.S. Eliot in the Criterion Office
A Talk with Lytton Strachey in Virginia Woolf’s Drawing Room
Paradox or Order — A Talk with T.S. Eliot in the Criterion Office
Talk Over Coffee and Brandy with Valentine and Bonamy Dobrée, Nikhil Sen and Irene Rhys in
Francis Meynell’s Flat
Reason and Romanticism — A Talk with T.S. Eliot in Schmidt’s Restaurant in
Charlotte Street
Ecstasy in Uday Shankar’s Dance in the Salon of Arthur Waley and Beryl De Zoete