Some good articles by Chesterton, G.B.S., Lionel Trilling, Angus Wilson, George Levine, Pam Morris, and an introduction and an afterthought by Harold Bloom, himself. Bloom has dozens of critical editions, etc. on everyone from Atwood to Zola. Most of the contributers are reliable, though every now and again an element like Mai Chin slips in between the cracks. A little looking into the matter digs out that Chins' parents are high-profile at Yale where the autocratic Bloom holds court. Oh well, Slick Willy Clinton and Michael Milken changed the rules forever and we must take our medicine, as Vanessa Bell would have it. ( )