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Contents

Introduction by Saros Cowasjee

Preface to the Second Edition

  1. A Drink with Bonamy Dobrée in the Museum Tavern

  2.   Lions and Shadows at the Sherry Party in Harold Monro’s Poetry Bookshop

  3.   In Café Italiano with Aldous Huxley

  4.   Crumpets with Nancy Cunard and Catherine Carswell at Whytelady’s

  5.   ‘How Unpleasant to Meet Mr Eliot’: A Talk in the Etoile with T.S. Eliot and Bonamy Dobrée

  6.   God, Joad and Logical Positivism in the Lower Refectory

  7.   China Tea in Mr Binyon’s Study in the  British Museum

  8.   Under the Chestnut Tree in Tavistock Square with E.M. Forster and Leonard Woolf

  9.   In a Public Bar with Harry Tomkins and Bill Bland

  10.   A Talk with Arthur Waley about the Asian Novel in Probsthain’s Bookshop

  11.   Feeding Pigeons with Auntie Emily Richardson in the British Museum Courtyard

  12.   Tea and Empathy from Virginia Woolf

  13.   A Wordy Quarrel with Clive Bell at the Hogarth Press

  14.   Art Nonsense Talk with Eric Gill, Herbert Read and Stanley Morrison in Gordon Square

  15.   White Gods and Dark Gods — A Talk with T.S. Eliot in the Criterion Office

  16.   A Talk with Lytton Strachey in Virginia Woolf’s Drawing Room

  17.   Paradox or Order — A Talk with T.S. Eliot in the Criterion Office

  18.   Talk Over Coffee and Brandy with Valentine and Bonamy Dobrée, Nikhil Sen and Irene Rhys in Francis Meynell’s Flat

  19.   Reason and Romanticism — A Talk with T.S. Eliot in Schmidt’s Restaurant in Charlotte Street

  20.   Ecstasy in Uday Shankar’s Dance in the Salon of Arthur Waley and Beryl De Zoete