Cover -- W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note on the Selection and Its Arrangement -- PART I BOOKS (1897-1909) -- LIZA OF LAMBETH -- I. EDWARD GARNETT, reader's report on 'A Lambeth Idyll' for T. Fisher Unwin: January 1897 -- 2. Unsigned review, Academy: LII, 11 September 1897, 65-6 -- 3. Jane H. Findlater, 'The Slum Movement in Fiction' , National Review: XXXV, May 1900, 447-54 -- THE MAKING OF A SAINT -- 4. Unsigned review, Literature: III, 27 August 1898, 185-6 -- 5. Unsigned review, Academy: LIV, 17 September 1898, 270 -- ORIENTATIONS -- 6. Unsigned review, Athenaeum: 3738, 17 June 1899, 751 -- 7. Unsigned review, Academy: LVI, 1 July 1899,15 -- MRS CRADDOCK -- 8. Unsigned review, 'The Strong Crude Novel', Academy and Literature: LXIII, 29 November 1902, 577 -- 9. A. St John Adcock, 'Mr W.S. Maugham's New Novel', Bookman (London): XXIII, December 1902, 108 -- THE MERRY-GO-ROUND -- 10. Unsigned review, Academy and Literature: LXVII, 15 October 1904, 338 -- 11. Unsigned review, Athenaeum: 4018, 29 October 1904, 586 -- THE LAND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN -- 12. Unsigned review, 'Spain and the Spanish', Athenaeum: 4039, 25 March 1905, 366 -- 13. [VIRGINIA WOOLF], unsigned review, 'Journeys in Spain', Times Literary Supplement: 26 May 1905 -- THE BISHOP'S APRON -- 14. 'The Baron de B[ook]-W[orms]' [Sir F.C. Burnand], review, Punch: CXXX, 21 February 1906, 144 -- THE MAGICIAN -- 15. 'Oliver Haddo' [Aleister Crowley], 'How to Write a Novel! After W.S. Maugham', Vanity Fair (London): LXXXI, 30 December 1908, 838-40 -- 16. Unsigned review, 'A Feast of Horrors', New York Times: 13 February 1909, 88 -- PART II PLAYS (1903-1914) -- A MAN OF HONOUR -- 17. E.K. Chambers, 'Mr Maugham's Irony', Academy and Literature: LXIV, 28 February 1903, 207-8.

18. Max Beerbohm, 'An Uncommercial Play', Saturday Review (London): XCVII, 5 March 1904, 207-8 -- LADY FREDERICK -- 19. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 27 October 1907, 7 -- 20. Reginald Turner, review, Academy: LXXIII, 2 November 1907, 96-7 -- JACKSTRAW -- 21. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 29 March 1908, 4 -- 22. Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review (London): CV, 4 April 1908, 431-2 -- MRS DOT -- 23. Unsigned review, Illustrated London News: CXXXII, 2 May 1908, 658 -- 24. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 3 May 1908, 4 -- THE EXPLORER -- 25. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 14 June 1908, 19 -- 26. Max Beerbohm, 'How Dare He?' Saturday Review (London): CV, 20 June 1908, 782-3 -- PENELOPE -- 27. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 10 January 1909, 9 -- 28. William Archer, 'Penelope and Popularity', Nation (London): IV, 16January 1909, 606-7 -- SMITH -- 29. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 3 October 1909, 4 -- 30. Unsigned review, Athenaeum: 4276, 9 October 1909, 435-6 -- THE TENTH MAN -- 31. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 27 February 1910, 4 -- GRACE (LANDED GENTRY) -- 32. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 16 October 1910, 9 -- LOAVES AND FISHES -- 33. Unsigned review, 'Mr Maugham's New Play', Times: 25 February 1911, 8 -- 34. [A.A.] M[ilne], review, Punch: CXL, 8 March 1911, 177-8 -- THE LAND OF PROMISE -- 35. Unsigned review, 'Maugham's Play Pleases at the Lyceum', New York Times: 26 December 1913, 11 -- 36. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times: 1 March 1914, 6 -- 37. S.O., 'Pygmalion (at Home and Abroad)', English Review: XVII, May 1914, 276-8 -- PART III BOOK (1915-1933) -- OF HUMAN BONDAGE -- 38. Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement: 12 August 1915, 269 -- 39. Gerald Gould, review, New Statesman: V, 25 September 1915, 594 -- 40. Unsigned review, Athenaeum: 4582, 21 August 1915.

41. Theodore Dreiser, 'As a Realist Sees It', New Republic: V, 25 December 1915, 202-4 -- 42. Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 'After Ten Years of Of Human Bondage', New York Times: 25 January 1925, 2 -- THE MOON AND SIXPENCE -- 43. K[atherine] M[ansfield], 'Inarticulations', Athenaeum: 4645, 9 May 1919, 302 -- 44. Unsigned review, 'The Primitive Man', Saturday Review (London) CXXVII, 17 May 1919, 481-2 -- 45. Maxwell Anderson, 'In Vishnu-Land What Avatar?' Dial: LXVII, 29 November 1919, 477-8 -- THE TREMBLING OF A LEAF -- 46. Louise Maunsell Field, review, New York Times: 20 November 1921, 16 -- 47. Unsigned review, Saturday Review (London): CXXXII, 5 November 1921, 540 -- 48. Rebecca West, review, New Statesman: XVIII, 5 November 1921, 140, 142 -- ON A CHINESE SCREEN -- 49. Louise Maunsell Field, 'Maugham's Chinese Sketches', New York Times: 4 February 1923, 11 -- 50. Gerald Gould, review, Saturday Review (London): CXXXV, 13 January 1923, 54 -- THE PAINTED VEIL -- 51. Unsigned review, 'Mr Maugham Excels as a Craftsman', New York Times: 22 March 1925, 7 -- 52. P.C. Kennedy, review, New Statesman: XXV, 9 May 1925 -- 53. Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement: 14 May 1925, 332 -- THE CASUARINA TREE -- 54. L.P. Hartley, review, Saturday Review (London): CXLII, 18 September 1926,317 -- 55. Edwin Muir, review, Nation and Athenaeum: XL, 9 October 1926, 30 -- 56. Henry Albert Phillips, 'In the Shadow of the Casuarina Tree', New York Evening Post: VII, 2 October 1926, 7 -- ASHENDEN -- 57. Edward Shanks, review, London Mercury: XVIII, May 1928, 98 -- 58. D.H. Lawrence, 'Four Contemporary Books', Vogue: 20 July 1928 -- 59. Unsigned review, 'Mr Maugham's Latest', New York Times: 15 April 1928,14 -- THE GENTLEMAN IN THE PARLOUR -- 60. Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement: 20 March 1930, 230.

61. Bellamy Partridge, 'Rare Traveler', New York Herald Tribune: 20 April 1930, 5 -- 62. Arthur Colton, 'Travelling with Composure', Saturday Review of Literature (New York): VI, 28 June 1930, 1159 -- CAKES AND ALE -- 63. Ivor Brown, 'Private Lives', Observer: 5 October 1930, 6 -- 64. Evelyn Waugh, 'The Books You Read', Graphic: CXXVII, 15 October 1930, 426 -- 65. Leslie A. Marchand, 'Maugham Paints a Sardonic Portrait', New York Times: 12 October 1930, 7 -- SIX STORIES WRITTEN IN THE FIRSTPERSON SINGULAR -- 66. Lee Wilson Dodd, 'Set of Six', Saturday Review of Literature (New York): VIII, 17 October 1931, 206 -- 67. L.A.G. Strong, 'The Test That Failed', Spectator: CXLVII, 10 October 1931, 468 -- THE NARROW CORNER -- 68. Anne Armstrong, review, Saturday Review (London): CLIV, 26 November 1932,564-5 -- 69. Florence Haxton Britten, 'A Cynical, Gifted Story Teller', New York Herald Tribune: 13 November 1932, 3 -- AH KING -- 70. William Plomer, review, Spectator: CLI, 29 September 1933, 420 -- 71. Florence Haxton Britten, 'Maugham's Tragic Tales', New York Herald Tribune: 12 November 1933, 4 -- PART IV PLAYS (1916-1933) -- CAROLINE ( THE UNATTAINABLE) -- 72. J. T. Grein, review, Sunday Times 13 February 1916, 4 -- OUR BETTERS -- 73. Unsigned review, New York Evening Post: 13 March 1917, 9 -- 74. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman: XXI, 6 October 1923, 738-9 -- CAESAR'S WIFE -- 75. Unsigned review, Times: 28 March 1919, 15 -- 76. William Archer, review, Weekly Review (New York): I, 14June 1919, 110 -- HOME AND BEAUTY (TOO MANY HUSBANDS) -- 77. [Aldous] H[uxley], 'A Good Farce', Athenaeum: 4665, 26 September 1919, 956 -- 78. Alexander Woollcott, 'A Delightful Maugham Farce', New York Times: 9 October 1919, 16 -- THE UNKNOWN -- 79. Unsigned review, Times: 10 August 1920, 8 -- 80. Frank Swinnerton, review, Nation (London): XXVII, 21 August 1920, 637-8.

THE CIRCLE -- 81. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman: XVI, 19 March 1921, 704-5 -- 82. W.J. Turner, review, London Mercury: III, April 1921, 663-4 -- EAST OF SUEZ -- 83. Janles Agate, 'West of Suez', Saturday Review (London): CXXXIV, 9 September 1922, 374-5 -- 84. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman: XX, 7 October 1922, 14 -- THE CONSTANT WIFE -- 85. Robert Benchley, 'Something Good', Life: LXXXVIII, 16 December 1926, 19 -- 86. Ivor Brown, 'Heartless House', Saturday Review (London): CXLIII, 16 April 1927, 598-9 -- THE LETTER -- 87. Unsigned review, Times: 25 February 1927, 12 -- 88. Ivor Brown, 'Here Are Tigers', Saturday Review (London): CXLIII, 5 March 1927, 350-1 -- THE SACRED FLAME -- 89. J. Brooks Atkinson, 'Murder Will Out at II', New York Times: 20 November 1928, 28 -- 90. J. T. Grein, 'Three Leading Ladies', Illustrated London News: CLXXIV, 23 February 1929, 318 -- THE BREADWINNER -- 91. Desmond MacCarthy, 'Two Comedies', New Statesman: XXXVI, 11 October 1930, 14-15 -- 92. J.B. Priestley, 'A Letter from England', Saturday Review of Literature (New York): VII, 1 November 1930, 299 -- FOR SERVICES RENDERED -- 93. Peter Fleming, review, Spectator: CXLIX, 11 November 1932, 659 -- 94. J. T. Grein, 'Two Gifted Pessimists', Illustrated London News: CLXXXI, 26 November 1932, 854 -- SHEPPEY -- 95. Desmond MacCarthy, 'Mr Maugham's New Play', New Statesman: n.s. VI, 16 September 1933, 325-6 -- 96. J. T. Grein, 'Somerset Maugham's New Play', Illustrated London News: CLXXXIII, 30 September 1933, 498 -- PART V BOOKS (1934-1959) -- EAST AND WEST -- ALTOGETHER -- 97. Louis Kronenberger, 'The Story-Telling Art of Mr Maugham', New York Times: 12 August 1934, 2 -- 98. Raymond Mortimer, 'Re-reading Mr Maugham', New Statesman and Nation: n.s. VIII, 25 August 1934, 243-4.

99. Graham Greene, 'Maugham's Short Stories', Spectator: CLIII, 31 August 1934, 297.