A superb collection of English authors—Dickens, Hardy, Conrad, Kipling, Wells, Maugham, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Mansfield, Cary, Huxley, Pritchett, Waugh, Greene, and Wilson (who was Angus Wilson?)—represented by some of their finest small jewels.  The Empire figures prominently as does British stiff upper lip-idness.  Waugh’s Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing about a long time resident of an insane asylum who is released for an outing through the intervention of a good works lady and who commits a lovely murder while out on leave.  Only the English!