Table Of Contents:
Introduction xv
Select Bibliography xxxii
Chronology xxxiv

1928--37

A Farthing Newspaper 5(3)

The Spike 8(8)

A Hanging 16(5)

Clink 21(9)

Common Loding Houses 30(3)

Review of Caliban Shrieks 33(2)

Jack Hilton

Review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; The Wolf at the Door by Robert Francis 35(3)

Rudyard Kipling 38(1)

Review of The Fate of the Middle Classes 39(1)

Alec Brown

Review of The Rock Pool 40(2)

Cyril Connolly

Shooting an Elephant 42(8)

Bookshop Memories 50(4)

Review of Walls Have Mouths by W. F. R. Macartney with Prologue, Epilogue and Comments on the Chapters by Compton Mackenzie 54(3)

In Defence of the Novel 57(6)

Review of The Novel To-day 63(3)

Philip Henderson

Spilling the Spanish Beans 66(8)

Unpublished Response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War 74(3)

1938

Notes on the Spanish Militias 77(12)

Review of Assignment in Utopia 89(2)

Eugene Lyons

Why I Join the I.L.P. 91(2)

Review of The Civil War in Spain 93(4)

Frank Jellinek

Political Reflections on the Crisis 97(5)

Review of Gypsies 102(5)

Martin Block

Barbara Kuczynski

Duncan Taylor

1939

Review of Power: A New Social Analysis 107(1)

Bertrand Russell

Review of Russia under Soviet Rule 108(3)

N. de Basily

Review of Communism and Man 111(3)

F. J. Sheed

Review of The Clue of History 114(3)

John Macmurray

Democracy in the British Army 117(4)

Marrakech 121(6)

Review of Union Now 127(8)

Clarence K. Streit

1940

Charles, Dickens 135(50)

Boy's Weeklies 185(26)

Inside the Whale 211(38)

Review of Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, unabrkidge translation 249(3)

Notes on the Way 252(7)

New Words 259(10)

Review of The Thirties 269(3)

Malcom Muggeridge

Review of My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis 272(3)

To the Editor, Time and Tide 275(2)

Review of English, Ways by Jack Hilton; with an Introduction by J. Middleton Murry and Photographs by J. Dixon Scott 277(2)

Review of Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools 279(2)

T. C. Worsley

My Country Right or Left 281(10)

1941

The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius 291(58)

The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda 349(3)

Tolstoy and Shakespeare 352(5)

The Meaning of a Poem 357(3)

Literature and Totalitarianism 360(5)

Dear Doktor Goebbels
Your British Friends are Feeding Fine! 365(2)

Wells, Hitler and the World State 367(6)

The Art of Donald McGill 373(11)

No, Not One 384(9)

1942

Money and Guns 393(4)

Rudyard Kipling 397(14)

The Re-discovery of Europe 411(10)

Review of The Sword and the Sickle 421(4)

Mulk Raju Anand

T. S. Eliot 425(6)

Looking Back on the Spanish War 431(20)

Imaginary Interview: George Orwell and Jonathan Swift 451(12)

1943

Review of The Development of William Butler Yeats 463(6)

V. K. Narayana Menon

Not Enough Money: A Sketch of George Gissing 469(2)

Literature and the Left 471(3)

Gandhi in Mayfair. Review of Beggar My Neighbour 474(11)

Lionel Fielden

Review of Subject India 485(3)

Henry Noel Brailsford

As I Please 1 488(4)

As I Please 2 492(2)

As I Please 3 494(3)

Review of Collected Poems of W.H. Davies 497(3)

As I Please 4 500(3)

Can Socialists by Happy? 503(7)

As I Please 5 510(7)

1944

As I Please 6 517(3)

As I Please 7 520(3)

Review of The Machivallians 523(3)

James Burnham

As I Please 8 526(3)

As I Please 9 529(4)

As I Please 10 533(4)

As I Please 11 537(3)

A Hundred Up [Review of Martin Chuzzlewit 540(3)

Charles Dickens]

As I Please 12 543(4)

As I Please 13 547(2)

Review of The Edge of the Abyss 549(3)

Alfred Noyes

Review of James Joyce 552(3)

Harry Levin

As I Please 14 555(3)

As I Please 15 558(4)

Rejected Review of Faith, Reason and Civilisation 562(3)

Harold J. Laski

As I Please 16 565(2)

Review of The Way of a Countryman 567(3)

Sir William Beach Thomas

As I Please 17 570(4)

Review of Tolstoy: His Life and Work 574(1)

Derrick Leon

As I Please 18 575(4)

As I Please 19 579(3)

As I Please 20 582(4)

Review of Cricket Country 586(3)

Edmund Blunden

As I Please 21 589(3)

As I Please 22 592(3)

As I Please 23 595(3)

As I Please 24 598(4)

As I Please 25 602(3)

Review of '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behaviour During the Crisis of the World Revolution 605(3)

H. G. Wells

The English People 608(40)

As I Please 26 648(2)

Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali 650(10)

Are Books Too Dear? 660(3)

As I Please 27 663(3)

As I Please 28 666(3)

As I Please 29 669(3)

As I Please 30 672(3)

As I Please 31 675(4)

As I Please 32 679(3)

Review of In a Strange Land: Essays 682(2)

Eric Gill

As I Please 33 684(4)

As I Please 34 688(3)

As I Please 35 691(4)

Propaganda and Demotic Speech 695(7)

As I Please 36 702(3)

As I Please 37 705(3)

As I Please 38 708(4)

Review of Milton: Man and Thinker 712(2)

Denis Saurat

As I Please 39 714(3)

Raffles and Miss Blandish 717(13)

As I Please 40 730(4)

As I Please 41 734(3)

Arthur Koestler 737(12)

As I Please 42 749(3)

Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist 752(4)

As I Please 43 756(4)

As I Please 44 760(4)

As I Please 45 764(3)

As I Please 46 767(3)

As I Please 47 770(3)

As I Please 48 773(4)

As I Please 49 777(3)

Funny, But Not Vulgar 780(6)

As I Please 50 786(3)

As I Please 51 789(3)

Oysters and Brown Stout 792(4)

Review of An Interlude in Spain 796(2)

Charles d'Ydewalle

Eric Sutton

As I Please 52 798(7)

1945

Review of Der Fuhrer 805(3)

Conrad Heiden

As I Please 53 808(3)

As I Please 54 811(4)

Review of The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus 815(2)

As I Please 55 817(3)

As I Please 56 820(3)

As I Please 57 823(3)

As I Please 58 826(4)

As I Please 59 830(3)

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse 833(14)

Anti-Semitism in Britain 847(10)

Poetry and the Microphone 857(8)

Notes on Nationalism 865(19)

Personal Notes on Scientifiction 884(4)

The Freedom of the Press (Animal Farm) 888(9)

Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment 897(2)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Constance Garnett

Revenge Is Sour 899(4)

You and the Atom Bomb 903(4)

What is Science? 907(3)

Review of Drums under the Windows 910(3)

Sean O'Casey

Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories 913(7)

Jack London

Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether 920(3)

H. G. Wells

Catastrophic Gradualism 923(4)

Good Bad Books 927(4)

The Prevention of Literature 931(14)

Review of The Prussian Office 945(3)

D. H. Lawrence

Bare Christmas for the Children 948(3)

The Case for the Open Fire 951(3)

Politics and the English Language 954(13)

The Sporting Spirit 967(4)

In Defence of English Cooking 971(2)

Nonsense Poetry: The Lear Omnibus 973(4)

R. L. Megroz

Banish This Uniform 977(6)

1946

Just Junk
But Who Could Resist It? 983(2)

Pleasure Spots 985(5)

A Nice Cup of Tea 990(2)

The Politics of Starvation 992(4)

Songs We Used to Sing 996(20)

The Intellectual Revolt 999(4)

What Is Socialism? 1003(4)

The Christian Reformers 1007(4)

Pacifism and Progress 1011(5)

But Are We Really Ruder? No 1016(2)

Bad Climates are Best 1018(3)

Books v. Cigarettes 1021(5)

The Moon Under Water 1026(2)

Decline of the English Murder 1028(4)

Words and Henry Miller 1032(4)

Classics Reviewed: The Martyrdom of Man 1036(4)

In Front of Your Nose 1040(4)

Some Thoughts on the Common Toad 1044(4)

A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray 1048(4)

James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 1052(21)

Confessions of a Book Reviewer 1073(4)

Review of Ants and Men 1077(2)

Caryl P. Haskins

Why I Write 1079(7)

The Cost of Letters 1086(2)

Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels 1088(20)

How the Poor Die 1108(10)

As I Please 60 1118(4)

As I Please 61 1122(3)

As I Please 62 1125(4)

Riding Down from Bangor 1129(6)

As I Please 63 1135(4)

As I Please 64 1139(3)

As I Please 65 1142(4)

As I Please 66 1146(4)

As I Please 67 1150(7)

1947

As I Please 68 1157(3)

As I Please 69 1160(4)

As I Please 70 1164(4)

As I Please 71 1168(4)

As I Please 72 1172(4)

As I Please 73 1176(4)

As I Please 74 1180(1)

As I Please 75A 1181(1)

As I Please 75B 1182(1)

Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool 1183(17)

As I Please 76 1200(3)

As I Please 77 1203(4)

As I Please 78 1207(3)

Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm 1210(5)

As I Please 79 1215(4)

Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle 1219(14)

As I Please 80 1233(4)

Review of Lady Gregory's Journals 1237(4)

Lennox Robinson

Toward European Unity 1241(6)

In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus 1247(10)

1948

Marx and Russia 1257(2)

Review of The Atlantic Islands 1259(2)

Kenneth Williamson

Writers and Leviathan 1261(7)

Britain's Left-Wing Press 1268(6)

Review of Spearhead: Ten Years' Experimental Writing in America 1274(7)

James Laughlin

Review of the Soul of Man under Socialism 1281(2)

Oscar Wilde

George Gissing 1283(8)

Such, Such Were the Joys 1291(42)

Review of Great Morning 1333(4)

Osbert Sitwell

Review of The Heart of the Matter 1337(5)

Graham Greene

Review of Portrait of the Anti-Semite 1342(1)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Erik de Mauny

Review of Notes towards the Definition of Culture 1343(6)

T. S. Eliot

1949

Reflections on Gandhi 1349(8)

Evelyn Waugh 1357(4)

A Prize for Ezra Pound 1361(4)
Author's Notes 1365