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THE VIEWPOINT SERIES 
 
 JOSEPHINE ADAMS RATHBONE, Editor 
 
 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 AN • ARRANGEMENT • OF • BOOKS 
 ACCORDING • TO • THEIR 
 ESSENTIAL • INTEREST 
 
 BY 
 
 MARION HORTON 
 
 Principal, Library School 
 Los Angeles Public Library 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 
 1922 
 
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 -ESSAYS IN INTERPRETIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 
 • EDITJSD^ B^ JOSEPHINE ADAMS RATHBONE, 
 •: '.Vjete-TjXB.EdTQfR/PRATT INSTITUTE LIBRARY SCHOOL 
 
 Viewpoints in Travel, by Josephine Adams Rathbone. 
 
 Viewpoints in Biography, by Katherine Tappert, 
 Librarian, New York Evening Post. 
 
 Viewpoints in Essays, by Marion Horton, 
 Principal of the Los Angeles Library School. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 "An essayist is not a mighty traveler. He does not run to 
 grapple with a roaring lion. He desires neither typhoon nor 
 tempest. He is content in his harbor to listen to the storm upon 
 the rocks if now and then by lucky chance, he can shelter some- 
 one from the wreck. His hands are not red with revolt against 
 the worlds He has glanced upon the thoughts of many men; 
 and as opposite philosophies point upon the truth, he is-rtiodest 
 with his own and tolerant of the opinion of others. He looks at 
 ^ the stars and, knowing in what a dim immensity we travel, he 
 writes of little things beyond dispute. There are enough to weep 
 upon the shadows; he, like the dial, marks the light. The small 
 clatter of the city beneath his window, the cry of peddlers, chil- 
 dren chalking their games upon the pavement, laundry dancing 
 on the roofs and smoke in the winter's wind — these are the things 
 he weaves into the fabric of his thoughts. Or sheep upon the 
 hillside — if his window is so lucky — or a sunny meadow, is a 
 profitable speculation. An essay, therefore, cannot be writ hur- 
 riedly upon the knee." 
 
 So writes Mr. Brooks in his delectable Hints to pilgrims, and 
 if an essayist keeps a note-book, as he avers, still more does the 
 bibliographer of essayists. One notes the wise, quaint fancies, 
 and shares them with gentle readers of like temper. Regretfully, 
 certain choice volimies are omitted, out of print, and tantalizing 
 to the eager buyer. 
 
 The essays listed here have been collected from the shelves 
 of libraries and from the familiar sources: A. L. A. Catalog, 
 and Supplement, the Booklist, Book Review Digest, Best Books, 
 Open Shelf, the Pittsburgh Catalog and Monthly Bulletin. The 
 notes have been written from the books themselves unless cita- 
 tion is given to some authority. Part of the preliminary collec- 
 tion of titles was done by the Class of 1920 in the Los Angeles 
 Library School, to whom grateful thanks is given, as well as to 
 Helen E. Haines who read the manuscript critically, and to 
 Elizabeth Owen Williams who checked all the titles so that 
 only those books in print would be included, and who helped in 
 the compilation in many other ways. 
 
 M. H. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Observations and Reflections 7 
 
 The Harvest of a Quiet Eye 11 
 
 Bed Books 13 
 
 Curry and Caviare 14 
 
 Masculine Attitudes 15 
 
 The Eternal Feminine 16 
 
 Domesticities 16 
 
 Chiefly of Human Interest 17 
 
 Youth and Age 19 
 
 Hobbies 20 
 
 Out of Doors , 22 
 
 Birds and Blossoming 24 
 
 Gardens 25 
 
 The Footpath Way 26 
 
 Lands and Peoples 28 
 
 American Mind and Manners 30 
 
 Schools and Society 32 
 
 Art 34 
 
 Music 36 
 
 Eternal Verities 37 
 
 Everyday Ethics 38 
 
 Writing 39 
 
 Reading 40 
 
 The Bookshelf 41 
 
 Poetry 51 
 
 Collections of Essays 54 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS 
 
 How they touch the matters of daily life with radiance, and 
 hang a veil of romance over experience and send you away happy ! 
 — Lucas. Loiterer's harvest. 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Ponkapog papers. Houghton, 1903. 
 
 A delectable medley of notes and essays; reminiscences of travel, anecdotes 
 of a life rich in literary associations, memoranda for unwritten stories, bits 
 of character-study, paragraphs of criticism, with here and there a swift mor- 
 dant thrust at the Philistines, or a touch of pure light comedy. — The Atlantic, 
 1903. 
 
 Ayscough, John. Levia pondera. Longmans, 1913. 
 
 Informal papers, classified as A novelist's sermons and Everyday papers, 
 written with humor and grace. 
 
 Bacon, Francis. Essays; ed. by Mary Augusta Scott. Scribner, 
 1908. (Modem student's library). 
 
 Wise, terse comments on truth, death, nobility, wisdom, friendship, gardens, 
 studies and other serious subjects. 
 
 "Certain brief notes set down rather significantly than curiously; not 
 vulgar but of a kind whereof men shall find much in experience and little 
 in books." 
 
 Belloc, Hilaire. On anything. Button, 1910. 
 
 In Belloc we find the aerfect union of French and English minds 
 It is in his essays, theWiousand little inquirendoes into the nature qf any- 
 thing, everything or nothing, that one comes closest to the real maiO His 
 prose leaps in sparks from the pen. It is whimsical, tender, biting, garrulous. 
 It is famiUar and unfettered as open-air talk. — Morley. Shandygaff. 
 
 On nothing. Methuen, 1913. 
 
 The pleasure of taking up one's pen is first discussed, and with unfailing 
 zest the writer finds delight in thousands of other things from conversation 
 in trains to coming to an end. His other books of essays First and last 
 (1911) On everything (1910) This and that and the other (1921) have the 
 same graceful style and joyous appreciation of life. 
 
 Bennett, Arnold. Things that have interested me. Doran, 1921. 
 
 Short articles and paragraphs on many different subjects, recorded by an 
 admirable observer and skillful writer. 
 
 Benson, Arthur Christopher. The silent isle. Putnam, 1910. 
 
 Quiet, introspective essays giving personal impressions of books, men 
 and EngUsh landscape. — Best Books, 1910. 
 
 Brooks, Charles S. Chimney pot papers. Yale university press, 
 1919. 
 
 Papers on livelihoods, spending a holiday, turning into forty, boots for 
 runaways and a dozen other engaging subjects "carrying on the tradition 
 of Lamb and Hazlitt with that studied artlessness whose other name is charm." 
 
8 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Brooks, Charles S. Hints to pilgrims. Yale university press, 1921. 
 
 Delightful reflections, seasoned with a mellow humor, on After dinner 
 pleasantries, Finding a plot. In praise of a lawn-mower, Autumn days. 
 
 Broun, Heywood Campbell. Seeing things at night. Harcourt, 
 1921. 
 
 It has Broun, himself, as its unity — for all the books and plays and people 
 that pass through his fey mind come out recognizably colored and encrusted. 
 And it has another unity — the unity of an unflagging hostility against all 
 bigotry the world around. — Bookman, iq2I. 
 
 Butler, Samuel. The humour of Homer and other essays, ed. 
 by R. A. Streatfield. Kennerley, 1914. 
 
 The first essay shows the human side of the Greek classics, and the others 
 are equally alive: The aunt, the nieces and doge ; A mediaeval girl school. 
 Thought and language. 
 
 Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Alarms and discursions. Dodd, 1910. 
 
 Epigrammatic and paradoxical, serious and frivolous . . . consist- 
 ing of 40 short essays on such a variety of subjects as dukes, cheese, the 
 sentimentalist, the anarchist, and country life. — Best Books, igio. 
 
 The uses of diversity. Methuen, 1920. 
 
 Jovial essays on subjects as diverse as the domesticity of detectives and 
 pigs as pets. In the paper on monsters he finds it hopeful that while lep- 
 rechauns have repeatedly been seen by children, by fishermen, by farmers, 
 even perhaps by postmen, now at last one has been seen by a policeman. 
 
 Conrad, Joseph. Notes on life and letters. Doubleday, 1921. 
 
 On books and authors, the sea and many other topics, revealing the writer 
 in a ruminating, conversational mood. 
 
 Crothers, Samuel McChord. The pardoner's wallet. Houghton, 
 1905. 
 
 Whimsical observations on unseasonable virtues, an hour with our prej- 
 udices, how to know the fallacies and other aspects of life, recorded with 
 delicate humor. 
 
 De Quincey, Thomas. EngHsh mail-coach. Button, 1913. (Every 
 man's library). 
 
 These essays on the mail coach, then the marvel of rapidity of travel, 
 offer in miniature, the type of De Quincey's style, with its sonorous poetic 
 cadences, its quaint colloquial familiarities, with his insatiable intellectual 
 curiosity and his digressiveness. — Lang. History of English literature. 
 
 Flandrau, Charles Macomb. Prejudices. Appleton, 1910. 
 
 Fourteen piquant essays revealing with engaging frankness the author's 
 reflections on dogs, wanderlust, parents and children, fellow passengers, 
 Ann Veronica and holidays. 
 
 Gardiner, Alfred George. Windfalls, by Alpha of the Plough. 
 Button, 1921. 
 
 In these essays the ways of nature and the habits of men are characterized 
 in a manner that mingles a happy wisdom and a gentle humor with a sturdy 
 and practical common sense. — Boston Transcript, igzi. 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 9 
 
 Hazlitt, William. Table talk; or, Original essays. Dutton, 1908. 
 
 (Everyman's library). 
 On people with one idea, living to one's self, will-making, paradox and 
 common sense, and other subjects, all treated in what Hazlitt called "the 
 genuine master spirit of the prose writer, viz, the tone of hvely sensible con- 
 versation." 
 
 Hewlett, Maurice Henry. In a green shade; a country com- 
 mentary. Bell, 1921. 
 Some of the essays are Round about a preface, Change and the peasantry. 
 Poetry and the mode, Flower of the field, Noctes ambrosianae, A commentary 
 upon Butler. 
 
 Humphrey, Zephine. The edge of the woods. Revell, 1914. 
 "There is one thing better than all the'holidays, all the high feasts in the 
 calendar; and that is Everyday. This is not intended to be a pious assertion, 
 introducing a sermon on the beauty of the commonplace; it springs from 
 a conviction that Everyday is the natural territory of high romance." — p. 161. 
 
 Huneker, James Gibbon. Variations. Scribner, 1921. 
 
 A collection of essays on many subjects colored by the vivid personality 
 of the critic and revealing the diversity of his interests. 
 
 Hunt, Leigh. The wishing-cap papers. Scribner, 1894. 
 
 Delightful familiar essays on such subjects as A walk in Co vent garden. 
 Rainy-day poetry. Love and the country. 
 
 "At Maiano I wrote the articles which appeared in the Examiner, under 
 the title of The wishing-cap. The title was very genuine. When I put on 
 my cap, and pitched myself into the thick of Covent Garden the pleasure 
 I received was so vivid, I turned the comer of the street so much in the or- 
 dinary course of things, and was so tangibly present to the pavement, the 
 shop windows, the people and a thousand agreeable recollections which 
 looked me naturally in the face, that sometimes when I walk there now, the 
 impression seems hardly more real." 
 
 Jenkins, MacGregor. Literature with a large L. Houghton, 1919. 
 
 The title essay is a plea for a closer human companionship with books; 
 the accompanying paper called Fellow travelers urges a similar openness 
 of heart in the contact of one person with others. — Nation, 1920. 
 
 Kilmer, Joyce. The circus and other essays. Doran, 1921. 
 
 Entertaining papers about the circus, John Bunny, Lafcadio Heam, Ernest 
 Dowson, and aspects of life in New York. 
 
 Kirkland, Winifred. The view vertical and other essays. Hough- 
 ton, 1920. 
 
 Whimsical and illuminating reflections on life as a happy woman sees it, 
 including An argument for absence, On being and letting alone. Family 
 phrases, In defense of worry. The man in the dictionary. Poetry by the penny- 
 worth. 
 
 Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia. Dutton, 1915. (Wayfarer's 
 library) . 
 
 I love Charles Lamb and his writings so much that I think every one else 
 ought to love them. There is not great weight in those essays of his; you 
 cannot learn from them what the capital of Hindustan is, or what Buddhism 
 is, nor the date of the capture of Constantinople. Measured by the dry- 
 
10 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 as-dust standard, and there is scarce more in them than a field of daisies, 
 over which the sunshine and the summer breezes are at play. But what a 
 delicacy there is! What a tender humor; what gentle and regaling lapses 
 of quaint thought ; that beguiles and invites and is soothing and never wearies. 
 — Mitchell. English lands. 
 
 Leith, W. Compton. Sirenica. Lane, 1913. 
 
 "The Sirens mean Romance. They awaken that restive yearning within 
 the heart which practical wisdom strives to quell. They disenchant from 
 the governable life with its gregarious ease and communicable satisfactions. 
 They incite to the sole adventure; they promise a reward remote from the 
 smiling continent of pleasures, isled in pain, attained and lost alone. They 
 promise joy, the stress and puissance, which carries the soul out to the great 
 verges, and holds her in ecstasies of incredible life." 
 
 Lucas, Edward Verrall. Adventures and enthusiasms. Doran, 
 1920. 
 
 Happy little papers, most of them about London, others describing whim- 
 sical aspects of life, such as the essential comicality of aunts. 
 
 Cloud and silver. Doran, 1915. 
 
 An admirable collection of war sketches, essays on a variety of subjects, 
 and fables of a mellow charm. — Best Books, igi6. 
 
 Twixt eagle and dove. Methuen, 1918. 
 
 Delightful reading, revealing all the author's wonted charm and versatility. 
 Some of the most pleasing are interesting anecdotes of Hans Andersen, an 
 appreciation of Poulbot, the inimitable cartoonist of Parisian street urchins 
 playing war, some queer soldier mascots. — Open Shelf, igi8. 
 
 Masson, Thomas Lansuig. Well, why not? Doubleday, 1921. 
 
 Some of the short vivacious essays are: The care and treatment of golfers, 
 A first night — with a dog, Best sellers I have never read. Among the poverty- 
 stricken millionaires. How to know the wild psychologists. An afternoon at 
 the current events club, Well, why is Wall Street? 
 
 Milne, Alan Alexander. Not that it matters. Button, 1920. 
 Charming little essays by the former assistant editor of Punch, on such 
 subjects as goldfish, games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and week-end 
 visits. 
 
 Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett. Ventures in thought. Lane, 
 1915. 
 
 A series of fifty-three essays of Baconian brevity and varied subject matter. 
 
 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. Essays; tr. by John Florio; 
 with introduction by R. Walker. Button, 1910. 3v. 
 Entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head; 
 treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There 
 have been men with deeper insight; but one would say, never a man with 
 such abundance of thoughts; he is never dull, never insincere, and has the 
 genius to make the reader care for all he cares for, — Emerson. Representative 
 men. 
 
 Repplier, Agnes. Compromises. Houghton, 1904. 
 
 The luxury of conversation. The gayety of life. Marriage in fiction. Our 
 belief in books and other topics are discussed with felicity of phrasing and 
 keen analysis. 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 11 
 
 Repplier, Agnes. Points of friction. Houghton, 1920. 
 
 Clever and effective presentation of an intellectual conservative's attitude 
 toward history, spiritualism, temperament and morals. 
 
 Shorter, Mrs. Dora (Sigerson). A dull day in London, and other 
 
 sketches, with an introductory note by Thomas Hardy. 
 
 Nash, 1920. 
 
 Other sketches: The last of summer. Not without honour. The child. 
 
 The fear of the sheep. The skylark. The gift of the white rose. The 
 
 footfall. Contentment. Christmas tide. The passing of the fairies. 
 
 Sill, Edward Rowland. Prose. Houghton, 1900. 
 
 Sparkling papers full of quaint ideas droUy expressed on all kinds of sub- 
 jects, from the Clang tints in words to the Left-over expression of countenance. 
 
 v/ Smith, Alexander. Dreamthorp; a book of essays written in the 
 country. Page, 1907. 
 Pleasant reflections on the writing of essays, a lark's flight, books and gar- 
 dens and other aspects of life in an English village. 
 
 Smith, Logan Pearsall. Trivia. Doubleday, 1918. 
 
 I^ If your mind needs phosphorus, try Trivia. — Roger Mifflin in The 
 : haunted book shop. 
 
 j Stewart, Charles David. Essays on the spot. Houghton, 1910. 
 Six sprightly and original papers, ranging in subject from the biography 
 of a Texas steer and the population of Wisconsin to the study of grammar. 
 — Best Books, igio. 
 
 ^Sturgis, Esther Mary (Ogden). (Mrs. R. Clipston Sturgis). 
 Personal prejudices. Houghton, 1920. 
 Refreshing informal essays, stating the candid convictions of the author 
 in regard to husbands, house keeping, gardening, old books and woman 
 suffrage. 
 
 Symonds, John Addington. In the key of blue and other prose 
 essays. 3d ed. Macmillan, 1918. 
 Gracefully written essays representing the different fields in which the 
 author was interested — Greek and renaissance literature, travel, criticism 
 and verse. 
 
 Wilson, John. Noctes ambrosianae, by Christopher North. 
 Routledge, n. d. 
 An essayist and causeur of commanding and singularly varied powers, 
 whose Noctes ambrosianae preserve for those who have attained the proper 
 point of view, the original charm of its gaiety, wit, and dramatic humor, 
 its criticism, and its occasional passages of admirably eloquent prose. — 
 Traill. Social England. 
 
 THE HARVEST OF A QUIET EYE 
 
 Benson, Arthur Christopher. From a college window. Putnam, 
 1906. 
 Papers on conversation, education, habits and other famiUar subjects, 
 gracefully written with the detached feeling of an Eton don, temperamentally 
 a recluse. 
 
12 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio medici, ed. by W. A. Greenhill. 
 Macmillan, 1898. 
 
 Eloquent and singularly beautiful defence of a scientific yet reverent 
 attitude toward religion. 
 
 Galsworthy, John. The inn of tranquillity; studies and essays. 
 Scribner, 1912. 
 
 Reflections of a lover of beauty, musing on the mystery of nature and the 
 destiny of men. 
 
 Gass, Sherlock Bronson. A lover of the chair. Marshall Jones, 
 1919. 
 Quiet meditations; a subtle rebuff of active acquisitive Americanism. 
 
 Gissing, George. Private papers of Henry Ryecroft. Boni and 
 Liveright, 1918. (Modem library). 
 
 Contains Gissing's "ripest reflections on books and life, the fruit of an 
 experience unique in its kind, conveyed in language distinguished above 
 most writing of the age for its chastened elegance, its easy grace and balance 
 . _ . . Grave without being heavy, learned without being pedantic, 
 wise and skeptical without being frigid, the little book is one of the treasures 
 of English literature." — P. E. More. 
 
 Leith, W. Compton. Apologia diffidentis. Lane, 1908. 
 
 Introspective study of the feelings of a shy man, written with grave dis- 
 tinction of style. 
 
 Domus doloris. Lane, 1919. 
 
 Philosophical meditations of a soldier in a hospital, the "House of pain," 
 which he likens to a university, with pain the teacher. Written with a rich- 
 ness of classical allusion in a style reminiscent of Pater. 
 
 Maeterlinck, Maurice. The treasure of the humble, tr. by Alfred 
 
 Sutro. Dodd, 1897. 
 
 The search for beauty in life is described with elusive grace and distinctive 
 literary charm. 
 
 Wisdom and destiny, tr. by Alfred Sutro. Dodd, 1898. 
 
 An attempt to reconcile the outward happenings of life over which a man 
 has no control (destiny) with that free spontaneous and inward life which 
 finds expression in wisdom. — A . L. A. catalog 1904. 
 
 Maynard, Theodore. Carven from the laurel tree. McBride, 1919. 
 
 The title taken from the couplet 
 
 How the crucifix may be 
 
 Carven from the laurel tree 
 implies the Roman Catholic point of view from which the author discusses 
 mysticism, sanctity and the sanitary inspector, the guild idea, and the humors 
 of the saints. 
 
 Paget, Violet. Euphorion, by Vernon Lee. Unwin, 1899. 
 
 There is less saw-dust and more star-dust in the books of Vernon Lee than 
 in any other contemporaries we have read, Walter Pater, John Addington 
 Symonds and Arthur Symons alone excepted. — Thomas Mosher. 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 13 
 
 BED BOOKS 
 
 There are few books which go with midnight soHtude and a 
 candle. It is much easier to say what does not please us then, 
 than what is exactly right. The book must be, anyhow, something 
 benedictory by a sinning fellow man. Cleverness would be 
 repellent at such an hour. — Tomlinson. Old junk. 
 
 Bergengren, Ralph. The comforts of home. Atlantic monthly 
 press, 1918. 
 
 Eight confidential essays on things domestic, such as the furnace, the 
 plumber, the bath-room. 
 
 "Sooner or later some enterprising publisher will bring out the Guest chamber 
 book-shelf; or, Twenty-five best books for the best bed-room. Such a list 
 would, of course, begin with the Bible and Shakespeare, and could then 
 conscientiously settle down to business with twenty-three places left. A 
 book of home exercises, illustrated with photographs of the same persistent 
 gentleman in forty or fifty more or less ridiculous positions is always inter- 
 esting ... A book of poems to digest will sometimes entertain a 
 guest . . . and (I should say) the book you are now reading." 
 
 Brooks, Charles S. There's pippins and cheese to come. Yale 
 university press, 1919. 
 
 Twelve whimsical, quaintly illustrated essays. 
 
 "By some slim chance, reader, you may be the kind of person, who, on a 
 visit to a strange city, makes for a book-shop. Of course your slight temporal 
 business may detain you in the earlier hours of the day. However, these 
 duties being done and the afternoon having not yet declined, do you not 
 seek a book-shop to regale yourself? Doubtless we have met. I admit 
 a bookish quirk maybe, a love of the shelf, a weakness for morocco, especially 
 if it is stained with age. I will indeed, shirk a wedding for a book-shop. 
 I'll go in 'just to look about a bit, to see what the fellow has,' and on occasion 
 I pick up a volume." 
 
 Crothers, Samuel McChord. Among friends. Houghton, 1910. 
 
 The Anglo-American school of polite unlearning. The hundred worst books, 
 My missionary life in Persia are some of the topics discussed with the quaint 
 wit and mellow wisdom of Dr. Crothers. 
 
 Gardiner, Alfred G. Pebbles on the shore, by Alpha of the 
 Plough. Button, 1918. (Wayfarer's library). 
 On reading in bed, umbrella morals, taxing vanity, intelligent golf balls, 
 talking to one's self and other personal subjects. 
 
 Holliday, Robert Cortes. Broome Street straws. Doran, 1919. 
 
 "It is said that essays are coming in again. Every once in a while some- 
 body says that. 'Tis like prophecies concerning the immediate end of the 
 world. However it (either one of these prophecies) may be so this time. 
 Still, as to essays, in view of the economy of ideas now going .... 
 that likelihood does not seem so possible. Because, whereas you can write 
 an excellent article about something with only one idea, and a pretty 
 fair one, (such as this) with no idea at all, to write the best sort of essay, 
 which is about nothing much, you really need any number of ideas." 
 
 Lucas, Edward Verrall. Fireside and sunshine. Dutton, 1907. 
 Whimsical dissertations on toast, walking sticks, fireworks and other 
 subjects Charles Lamb would have loved. 
 
14 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Milne, Alan Alexander. If I may. Button, 1920. 
 
 An ideal bedside book, providing just the subjects of meditation that 
 one desires at bedtime, trains of thought that grow rosy as they grow dim. 
 — Spectator, IQ20. 
 
 Morley, Christopher. Mince pie; adventures on the sunny side 
 of Grub Street. Doran, 1919. 
 
 "This book is intended to be read in bed. Please do not attempt to read 
 it anywhere else. In order to obtain the best results for all concerned, do 
 not read a borrowed copy, but buy one. If the bed is a double bed, buy 
 two. Do not lend a copy in any circumstances, but refer your friends to 
 the nearest bookshop where they may expiate their curiosity ... If 
 one asks what excuse there can be for prolonging the existence of these trifles, 
 my answer is that there is no excuse. But a copy on the bedside sheK may 
 possibly pave the w^y to easy slumber." ^/ 
 
 Squire, John Collings. Books in general, by Solomon Eagle. 
 Knopf, 1919-20. 2 v. 
 
 Delightful comments on life and literature (Florence Barclay, Herrick 
 and Henry James are among the celebrities), fulfilling the author's hope of 
 producing the sort of book one reads in without tedium for ten minutes before 
 one goes to sleep. 
 
 CURRY AND CAVIARE 
 
 In reading, as in feeding, there are proprieties, times and sea- 
 sons to be observed; a time for curry and a time for caviare; 
 and the wise man is he, and fortunate, who can adapt his diet 
 to his moods. — J. 0. P. Bland. 
 
 Beerbohm, Max. And even now. Button, 1921. 
 
 One cannot sum up his creed. Even the thing he satirizes is hard to define, 
 but he has been the embodiment of that spirit which is ready to mock all 
 that take themselves too seriously. Max is, indeed, a part of the English 
 social constitution, a part of the so often praised balance of institutions. 
 He is the check on ponderosity. He prevents English art and letters from 
 becoming too British. — Nation, 1921. 
 
 Bourne, Randolph Silliman. The history of a literary radical; 
 ed. by Van Wyck Brooks. Huebsch, 1920. 
 
 Papers representing the scope and character of Bourne's best work, in- 
 cluding essays in literary criticism, social criticism and the autobiographical 
 essay which gives the title to the book. 
 
 With the younger set of the professedly intellectual radicals, as well as 
 with others, who though no longer young still affect juvenile insurgency, 
 the late Randolph Bourne ranl<s as a leader. — Weekly Review, 1921. 
 
 Gerould, Mrs. Katharine (Fullerton). Modes and morals. 
 Scribner, 1920. 
 
 Pungent discussions of The new simplicity, British novelists, ltd.. Fashions 
 in men. Tabu and temperament, The sensual ear and other phases of American 
 Ufa. 
 
 Guedalla, Philip. Supers and supermen. Knopf, 1921. 
 
 "Be clever, sweet child, and let who will be good", whispered somebody 
 to Mr. PhiUp Guedalla, and Mr. Guedalla thought that was a bright idea. 
 His book ranges in its brief historical and literary essays from King Alfred 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 15 
 
 to Lord Kitchener, from King Louis Philippe to Mr. Wilfred Blunt. He 
 classifies some of them as "Supers" and sub-classifies them as. Some his- 
 torians, Some literary men, Some Turks, Some lawyers, etc., with separate 
 essays on the greater figures. 
 
 Huneker, James. Bedouins. Scribner, 1920. 
 
 Bedouins is exotic and yet nobody but an American could have written 
 it. This Bedouin has found an oasis in which he cultivates flaming flowers 
 of all colors, watered by iridescent streams and glittering fountains. Mr. 
 Huneker is an American brought up in Philadelphia. To the ordinary mind 
 it seems impossible that this interpreter of the occult in life, of the weird 
 in literature, and even of the esoteric Satanic in humanity could come out 
 of that much calumniated city; but here he is very much in the new fashion, 
 and so old-fashioned that he forces modes of thought, which went out with 
 Baudelaire and the dandies of Balzac, into form again. — Yale Reviexv, 1920. 
 
 Ivory, apes and peacocks. Scribner, 1915. 
 
 Himeker assumes that the elements are already well-grounded, that he is 
 dealing with the initiated, that a pause to explain would be an affront. Sad 
 work for the Philistines — but a joy to the elect ! — Mencken. A hook of prefaces. 
 
 Littell, Philip. Books and things. Harcourt, 1919. 
 
 With something of the irresponsibility of the Montaigne and the disillusion- 
 ment of Anatole France, he is yet in full cry on the trail of realities. His 
 dread of the insincere and the sentimental makes him amusingly distrustful 
 of high motives, and a little wistful in the presence of "those spiritual moods 
 to which nowadays we do not rise by accident, nor yet by will, nor at all 
 without the help of strong hands." If in speaking of men and women he is 
 apt to dilate their failings of pomposity, affectation and absurdity for the 
 sheer pleasure of pricking the bubbles he has blown, when he talks of books 
 he is alert, penetrating, unprejudiced. If Mr.Littell has caught from abroad 
 the trick of letting the eyelids look a little weary as though overweighted 
 by too heavy a burden of human experience he has not yet lost his broad 
 American grin. The grin is the more contagious. — Nation, 1920. 
 
 Mencken, Henry Louis. Prejudices. Knopf, 1919. 2 v. 
 
 Saturnine essays which condemn Howells and H. G. Wells, glorify George 
 Ade, and judge other writers by Mencken's arbitrary standards. 
 
 He has no objection to assuming the role of an aesthetic evangelist or a 
 Billy Sunday of the beautiful, seeking to infuse loveliness into our crude 
 lives by vociferation. — Nation, 1920. 
 
 MASCULINE ATTITUDES 
 
 Bergengren, Ralph. The perfect gentleman. Atlantic monthly 
 press, 1919. 
 
 Of masculine foibles depicted with engaging frankness and humor. Con- 
 tents: The perfect gentleman. As a man dresses. In the chair. Oh, 
 shining shoes! On making calls. The Her in bed. To bore or not to bore. 
 Where toils the tailor. Shaving thoughts. Oh, the afternoon tea! 
 
 Hendrick, Ellwood. Percolator papers. Harper, 1919. 
 
 From sources as diverse as the Atlantic Monthly and the official organ of 
 the Chemist's club, the Percolator, these essays range from clever and amusing 
 sketches on dining out and other social customs to serious discussions of 
 scientific and industrial questions. 
 
16 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Holliday, Robert Cortes. Walking-stick papers. Doran, 1918. 
 
 Twenty-four diverting "records of excursions of a visiting mind," describing 
 how a clerk in a book store may look at celebrities, and discussing the psy- 
 chology of carrying a cane, wearing a hat, reading after thirty and other 
 amusing topics. 
 
 Morley, Christopher. Pipefuls. Doubleday, 1920. 
 
 Delectable sketches about men and books and unexpected sights in cities, 
 written with delicate charm and spontaneous humor. 
 
 Plirni pudding. Doubleday, 1921. 
 
 Whimsical papers on books, and on men, women, dogs and tadpoles, all 
 illuminated by imagination and humor. 
 
 THE ETERNAL FEMININE 
 
 I am moved to declare the real delights of the apparently 
 down- trodden, and in the face of a bulky literature expressive of 
 pathos and protest, to confess frankly the joys of being a woman. 
 — Kirkland. The joys of being a woman. 
 
 Bennett, Arnold. Our women; chapters on the sex discord. 
 Doran, 1920. 
 
 There is an old saying that every man has in him the material for one good 
 novel. Arnold Bennett doubts this, but asserts that every man has in him 
 the material for one original book about women. This delightfully pro- 
 vocative and illogical essay full of challenging contradictions is the result. 
 
 George, William Lionel. The intelligence of women. Little, 1916. 
 
 Shrewd and thought-provoking comments including besides the title essay 
 Feminist intentions, Uniforms for women. Woman and the paint pot. The 
 downfall of the home, The break-up of the family. Some notes on marriage . 
 
 Kirkland, Winifred. The joys of being a woman'and other essays. 
 Houghton, 1918. 
 
 Gay little comments on life as a woman sees it; on a man in the house, 
 old clothes, luggage, the lady alone at night, gardeners, picnics, and letter- 
 writing. 
 
 Paget, Violet. Hortus vitae; essays on the gardening of life, by 
 Vernon Lee, 1904 
 
 Charming reflections on reading, learning music, receiving letters, making 
 presents, and other aspects of a life attuned to happiness. 
 
 Repplier, Agnes. Varia. Houghton, 1897. 
 
 Entertaining comments on the deathless diary, little pharisees in fiction, 
 modern women and their grandmothers, from a Philadelphian's stand-point. 
 
 DOMESTICITIES 
 
 Cohen, Alfred J. When a man commutes. Dodd, 1918. 
 
 Hilarious sketches of suburban life, picturing the commuter's adventures 
 with architects, gardens, cooks and week-end guests. 
 
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 McArthur, Peter. The red cow and her friends. Lane, 1919. 
 
 Amusing tales of a purposeful strong-minded cow and other animals and 
 things bucolic. 
 
 Sharp, Dallas Lore. The hills of Hingham. Houghton, 1916. 
 
 Shows with infectious humor why certain days in the family calendar are 
 red letter days: — the day of the first melon, the pup's birthday, leafing day 
 and the day for ice-cutting. 
 
 Sherwood, Margaret. Familiar ways. Little, 1917. 
 
 Delightful sketches of the intimate joys of a householder. 
 
 "The little house looked so gentle and confiding in its setting of green grass 
 and apple trees the morning when we first saw it that we could not resist 
 the spell. It coaxed us with that feminine appeal almost impossible to with- 
 stand. The closed door and locked sashes, the grass in the walk, hinted at 
 loneliness, suggested that we could understand; and so because of its quaintness 
 and the pathos of the hollowed doorstep, we took it for our own." 
 
 Sloane, Julia M. The smiling hill-top. Scribner, 1919. 
 
 Gay little chronicles of the daily happenings in the life of a Ught-hearted 
 family in California. 
 
 Strunsky, Simeon. Belshazzar court; or. Village life in New 
 York City. Holt, 1914. 
 Clever, amusing chronicles of the life of apartment dwellers, packed with 
 penetrating observation of public manners and homely customs. 
 
 Warner, Frances Lester. Endicott and I. Houghton, 1919. 
 
 Any reader, radical or conservative, seeking a brief respite from continuous 
 alarums and excursions, should go sketching with Endicott, an early Futurist; 
 join in the family prayers, — not always a solemn occasion; help Margaret 
 retrieve the Airedale pup, which had a deceptively aged look and the easy 
 gait of a zebra; faithfully contrive with Endicott's wife to keep his economies 
 from being too disastrously expensive; or sit with the family before a drift- 
 wood fire and watch the rainbow in the flames. Best of all, perhaps, for his 
 refreshment of spirit, let him observe Geoffrey trying to teach his mother — 
 a hopelessly non-aquatic animal — to swim, and with her admire the faith 
 that makes him spend entire bathing hours in alternately launching and 
 dredging for her, "with the morose persistence of a secretary of the navy." 
 — Nation, ig20. 
 
 Warner, Frances Lester and Warner, Gertrude. Life's minor 
 collisions. Houghton, 1921. 
 "Minor friction is the kind that produces the most showy results with 
 the smallest outlay. You can stir up more electricity in a cat by stroking 
 her fur the wrong way than by dropping her in a well. You can ruffle the 
 dearest member of your family more by asking him twice if he is sure that 
 he locked the back door than his political opponents could stir him with a 
 Ubel." 
 
 CHIEFLY OF HUMAN INTEREST 
 
 All books save those which subserve some fact, such as, say, 
 ferro-concrete or the migration of swallows or the differential 
 calculus, and even perhaps these also, are about persons. 
 Any inquisitiveness about others, be they artists or mechanics 
 
18 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 craftsmen or drudges, which does not refresh us by a new point 
 of view, give a new sense of wonder, or act as tonic to the soul 
 is so much waste energy. — Jackson. All manner of folk. 
 
 Addison, Joseph. Sir Roger de Coverley and other essays from 
 the Spectator, with illustrations by H. M. Brock. Dent, 1905. 
 
 The figure of Sir Roger, though it belongs to a bygone age of society, is 
 as durable as human nature itself. Scarcely below the portrait of the good 
 knight will be ranked the character of his friend and biographer, the silent 
 Spectator of men. — Courthope. Addison. 
 
 Benson, Arthur Christopher. The leaves of the tree. Putnam, 
 1911. 
 
 Portraits carefully drawn from life of Henry Sedgwick, J. K. Stephen, 
 Frederick Myers, Henry Bradshaw, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, 
 Alfred Newton, and four English bishops. The paper on Bradshaw is es- 
 pecially delightful for bibliographers. 
 
 Brown, John. Spare hours. Houghton, 1883. 3v. 
 
 Among the vivid character sketches are those of Marjorie Fleming, famous 
 Edinburgh physicians and other Scotch worthies. 
 
 Carlyle, Thomas. On heroes, hero worship and the heroic in 
 history. Scribner, 1901. (Centenary ed.) 
 
 Six lectures, treating of the hero as divinity (Odin); prophet (Mahomet); 
 poet (Dante, Shakespeare); priest (Luther, Knox); man of letters (Johnson, 
 Rousseau, Burns); king (Cromwell, Napoleon). 
 
 Chapman, John Jay. Memories and milestones. Moffat, 1915. 
 Presents vividly such famous figures as William James, Horace Howard 
 Fumess, Charles Eliot Norton and Julia Ward Howe. 
 
 Colvin, Sir Sidney. Faces and places. Scribner, 1921. 
 
 Intimate sketches of Stevenson, Meredith, Henry James and Edward 
 Fitzgerald and other notable personalities who made up the author's circle 
 of friends. 
 
 Dobson, Austin. Later essays, 1917-1920. Oxford university 
 press, 1921. 
 Seven delicately etched miniatures of eighteenth century characters. 
 
 Gosse, Edmund William. Portraits and sketches. Scribner, 1912. 
 Vivid, pictorial studies from personal acquaintance, of literary men of 
 varying distinction, Swinburne, Philip James Bailey, "Orion" Home, Aubrey 
 de Vere, Tennyson, Whittier, J. H. Shorthouse, Mandell Creighton, Andrew 
 Lang, Wolcott Balestier, Carl Snoilsky, Eugene Melchior de Vogue, Andre 
 Gide. 
 
 Holliday, Robert Cortes. Turns about town. Doran, 1921. 
 It is for his extraordinary quality as a reporter, an interviewer, that one 
 reader most values Mr. Holliday. How many people now writing can 
 approach him in the knack of establishing contact with a personality in a 
 dozen paragraphs or hitting off a portrait sketch in a dozen words? — Literary 
 Review, ig2i. 
 
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 Jackson, Holbrook. All manner of folk. Kennerley, 1912. 
 
 Informal essays on varied personalities: — Synge, Whistler, Thoreau, 
 Jefferies, Hyndman, Meredith and others. 
 
 Kenyon, C. Fred. Set down in malice; a book of reminiscences 
 by Gerald Cumberland. Brentano, 1919. 
 During the author's progress from youth onward through the paths of 
 journalism, he came in contact with many personalities, particularly those of 
 the literary and artistic worlds. Each of his sketches is a pen portrait of 
 the intellect and physique of his subject. Includes such names as Frank 
 Harris, Arnold Bennett, Sir Herbert Tree, Hall Caine. — Pittsburgh Monthly 
 Bulletin, iq20. 
 
 Pater, Walter. Miscellaneous studies, prepared for the press by 
 
 C. L. Shadwell. Macmillan, 1895. 
 
 Contains the "imaginary portraits", exquisite sketches of French and 
 Flemish gentlefolk. 
 
 Raymond, E. T. All and sundry. Holt, 1920. 
 
 Supplements his former volume, Uncensored celebrities, 1919, with a sheaf 
 of thirty-six short, pungent character sketches of notable persons, ranging 
 from the Prince of Wales to Clemenceau and Chesterton. 
 
 Russell, George William Erskine. Prime ministers and some 
 others; a book of reminiscences. Scribner, 1919. 
 Genial essays on politics, education, religion and famous men, including 
 nine prime ministers from Lord Palmerston to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 
 "in honor of friendship." 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis. Memories and portraits. Scribner, 
 1902. 
 
 A certain thread of meaning binds these papers. Memories of childhood 
 and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle, — taken 
 together they build up the face of what was once myself. — Author's note. 
 
 One of the essays is the perennially joyous Penny plain and twopence 
 coloured. 
 
 ly^ Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Victorians. Putnam, 1918. 
 
 Vigorous and unconventional portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence 
 Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon. 
 
 YOUTH AND AGE 
 
 At twenty, my life was a feverish adventure; at thirty, it was 
 a problem; at forty, it was a solemn duty; at fifty, it is a joyful 
 journey well begun. — E. P. Butler. Hoiv it feels to be fifty. 
 
 Bergengren, Ralph. The seven ages of man. Atlantic monthly 
 press, 1921. 
 
 Babyhood and boyhood, youngmanhood, fatherhood and old, old age are 
 the subjects of these essays, with two diverting chapters on meeting the 
 beloved and on being a landlord. 
 
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 Boas, Ralph Philip, ed. Youth and the new world. Atlantic 
 monthly press, 1921. 
 
 Papers dealing with current problems and ranging in mood and point of 
 view from bewildered spinster to belligerent radical, from labor leader to 
 college president. Dean Briggs on Inter-collegiate athletics and the war, 
 J. N. Lamed in A criticism of two-party politics, John Mitchell on The eco- 
 nomic necessity of trade-unionism, Bertrand Russell on National independence, 
 and interna tionaHsm, Mr. Canby on Sentimental America and Dr. Gordon 
 on Reasonable hopes of American religion — these papers suggest the scope 
 and quahty of the book. 
 
 Bourne, Randolph Silliman. Youth and life. Houghton, 1913. 
 
 Candid, well-written essays, analyzing the quaUties of youth and expressing 
 
 the young author's hopeful, enthusiastic attitude toward life. — Best Books, igij. 
 
 Grant, Robert.^ The convictions of a grandfather. Scribner, 1912. 
 In a vein both shrewd and genial with a keen eye for the foibles of the day, 
 but a kindly tolerance withal, a progressive grandfather discusses with his 
 family, such omnipresent topics of the times as the American woman, auto- 
 mobiles, the servant problem, divorce and old age pensions. — Best Books, 1912. 
 
 Locker-Lampson, Godfrey Tennyson. Thoughts in middle life. 
 Himiphreys, 1919. 
 
 Thirty-seven little cameos on such subjects as one's own company and 
 the family clock. 
 
 Murry, John Middleton. The evolution of an intellectual. 
 Knopf, 1921. 
 Chronologically arranged, the essays cover the period October, 1916, to 
 April, 1919. They record the disillusionment of an intelligent modem idealist, 
 who, in the process, has acquired, not cynicism, but wisdom. — Yale review, 
 1 92 1. 
 
 Paine, Harriet Eliza. Old people. Houghton, 1910. 
 
 Cheerful essays on the privileges of old age, showing how to grow old 
 happily. 
 
 Scott, Temple." I The silver age and other dramatic memories. 
 Seltzer, 1919. 
 
 Charming reflections capturing the mellow mood of old age, on such sub- 
 jects as The lady and the singing bird, Reb Yankel, New York at twilight, 
 Fifth Avenue and the Boulevard Saint Michel, at the sign of the golden dusk. 
 
 Sturgis, Esther Mary (Ogden). "Mrs. R. Clipston Sturgis". 
 Random reflections of a grandmother. Houghton, 1917. 
 Lively chronicles of some of the joys that come to a grandmother: husband, 
 children, guests, attics and a country house. 
 
 HOBBIES 
 
 And now each man bestride his hobby and dust away his bells 
 to what tune he pleases. — Lamb. 
 
 Carrick, Alice Van Leer. Collector's luck; or, A repository of 
 pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the house- 
 hold furniture and ornaments of olden time. Atlantic 
 monthly press, 1919. 
 
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 Collecting isn't just a fad; it isn't even just a divine madness: properly- 
 interpreted it is a liberal education. — Preface. 
 
 Describes the quest for hidden treasures in old houses — glass-ware, lustre 
 pitchers and teacups, old valentines, silhouettes and white counterpanes. 
 
 Conway, Sir Martin. Mountain memories. Cassell, 1920. 
 
 "Reader, if you and I are to be real comrades, we must share the same 
 adventures of fancy and of soul. You must see my whales and elephants 
 in the clouds and leap to the same God-given revelation whether in art or 
 nature. My fairies must be thy fairies and my gods thy gods!" 
 
 Grey, Edward, ist viscount. Recreation. Houghton, 1920. 
 
 Discusses the place of recreation in a well-ordered life, and especially 
 Lord Grey's favorite pastimes: — fly-fishing, observations of birds and reading. 
 
 Hine, Reginald L. The cream of curiosity. Button, 1920. 
 
 Essays founded upon manuscripts of historical and literary interest in 
 Mr. Hine's collection; a delightful book of genuine substance and antiquarian 
 charm. 
 
 Mackenzie, William Roy. Quest of the ballad. Princeton 
 university press, 1919. 
 
 Includes some of the ballads found in Nova Scotia and discusses types, 
 variations and the scheme of ballad singing. 
 
 Newton, Alfred Edward. The amenities of book collecting and 
 kindred affections. Atlantic monthly press, 1918. 
 
 It was while I was poking about among the book-shops that it occurred 
 to me to write a little story about my books — when and where I had bought 
 them, the prices I had paid, and the men I had bought them from, many of 
 whom I knew well. — Preface. 
 
 In addition to five essays on the joys of book-collecting, there are pleasant 
 comments on Boswell, Charles Lamb, Anthony Trollope and other writers. 
 
 A magnificent farce, and other diversions of a book 
 
 collector. Atlantic monthly press, 1921. 
 
 Relates with infectious enthusiasm the friendships with books and men 
 and the delightful chance acquaintances which have come to the author in 
 forming his collection. 
 
 Perry, Bliss. The amateur spirit. Houghton, 1904. 
 
 Pleasant essays showing how the enthusiasm of the amateur and profes- 
 sional skill may be combined in the workaday world. 
 
 Roosevelt, Kermit. The happy hunting grounds. Scribner, 1920. 
 Describes adventures in quest of sable antelope, desert sheep, and moose 
 and includes a chapter on book-hunters in South America. 
 
 ShauflBier, Robert Haven. The joyful heart. Houghton, 1914. 
 
 In the author's words, "a manual of enthusiasms" which sets forth the 
 happiness that comes from the possession of hobbies. 
 
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 Scoville, Samuel, jr. Everyday adventures. Atlantic monthly 
 press, 1920. 
 
 Essays describing a lawyer's recreations in the open with animals and 
 flowers. 
 
 Torrey, Bradford. Nature's invitation, notes of a birdgazer north 
 and south. Houghton, 1904. 
 Discoveries made on walks in New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and Arizona. 
 
 Van Dyke, Henry. Fisherman's luck and other uncertain things. 
 Scribner, 1899. 
 
 Pleasant reflections on angling out-of-doors and in books, an open fire, 
 and a lazy brook. 
 
 Walton, Izaak and Cotton, Charles. Compleat angler; ed. by 
 Richard Le Gallienne. Lane, 1904. (Crown library). 
 
 A quaint and loving exposition of the ancient art, delightful in subject 
 matter and in the manner of its telling. 
 
 OUT OF DOORS 
 
 Life is sweet, brother . . . There's day and night, 
 brother, both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, all sweet things; 
 there's likewise a wind on the heath. — George Borrow. 
 
 Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Holy earth. Comstock pub. co., [cl916]. 
 "When one really feels the response to the native earth, one feels also the 
 obligation and impulse to share it with the neighbor. The earth is not selfish. 
 It is open and free to all. It invites everywhere. The naturist is not sel- 
 fish, he shares all his joys and discoveries, even to the extent of publishing 
 them." 
 
 Baker, Ray Stannard. Great possessions, by David Grayson. 
 Doubleday, 1916. 
 
 Papers, friendly and refreshing, about "the goodly plain things — the smells, 
 sights, sounds, touches and tastes of the country." 
 
 Burroughs, John. Leaf and tendril. Houghton, 1908. 
 
 As most of the essays in this volume were written in a little bark-study 
 that is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, I have thought it not inappro- 
 priate to go to the vine for my title. The "leaf" may stand very well for the 
 nature sketches and the "tendril" may symbolize those other papers in which 
 I have groped my way in some of the great problems, seeking some law or 
 truth to cling to. — Preface. 
 
 Signs and seasons. Houghton, 1891. 
 
 "One has only to sit down in the woods or fields or by the shore of the 
 river or lake and nearly everything of interest will come round to him." 
 
 Under the maples. Houghton, 1921. 
 
 Published fifty years after Wake-robin, this volume has the same sim- 
 plicity and freshness and the same zest for adventure. It deals with holidays 
 
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 in the Great Smoky Mountains and in California, and with Roosevelt at 
 Pine Knot. 
 
 Eaton, Walter Pritchard. Green trails and upland pastures. 
 Doubleday, 1917. 
 
 Three of the essays describe the attraction of Glacier Park, while the others 
 are concerned with the windy hilltops and green valleys of New England. 
 
 "There are alluring names in the comer of the world where I dwell, such 
 as Upper Meadow, Sky Farm and High Pasture. Is there not something 
 breeze- blown and spacious about the very words High Pasture? You do not 
 need a picture to bring the image to the eye." 
 
 Fabre, Jean Henri Casimir. Life and love of the insect. Mac- 
 millan, 1911. 
 
 Vivacious studies of the habits of insects. Like his other books: Mason 
 bees (,1914), Life of the spider (1913), Social life in the insect world (1914) 
 they reveal keen observation and charming style. Autobiographical essays 
 in his Life of the fly (1913) tell with touching simplicity why he devoted 
 his life to the study of nature. 
 
 Jefiferies, Richard. The open air. Button, 1915. (Wayfarer's 
 library) . 
 
 Essays that reveal the author's quick response to the magic of light and 
 color. 
 
 Story of my heart. Longmans, 1901. 
 
 I^ "If your mind needs a whiff of strong air, blue and cleansing, from hilltops 
 and primrose valleys, try the Story of my heart." — Roger Mifflin in The 
 haunted bookshop. 
 
 Morris, Mrs. Elisabeth (W.) Jonathan papers, by Elisabeth 
 Woodbridge. Houghton, 1912. 
 
 Refreshing essays on the simple joys of life — berrying, trout fishing, duck- 
 shooting, gardening. More Jonathan papers (1915) are written with the 
 same engaging humor. 
 
 Paget, Violet. The enchanted woods, by Vernon Lee. Lane, 1905. 
 
 Vernon Lee possesses a mind richly imbued with the lore of the finest 
 literature, and distinguished by just that touch of paradox of the unexpected 
 which is the other indispensable requisite of the true essayist. — Outlook 
 (Eng.) 1903. 
 
 Sharp, Dallas Lore. Beyond the pasture bars. Century, 1914. 
 (Wild life series). 
 
 Fascinating essays about birds, skunks, opossums and squirrels. His 
 Watcher in the woods, (1903) and Fall of tJie year, Spring of the year, Winter 
 of the year (1911-12) have the same Uvely subjects and amusing style. 
 
 The face of the fields. Houghton, 1908. 
 
 Happy aspects of Ufe on a Massachusetts farm, including a captivating 
 description of finding turtle eggs for Agassiz. 
 
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 Sharp, William. Where the forest murmurs, by Fiona Macleod. 
 Scribner, 1906. 
 
 Exquisite expression of the subtle changes of the sky and sea and wood- 
 land touched with Gaelic mysticism. 
 
 Thoreau, Henry David. Walden ; or, Life in the woods. Houghton, 
 1893. (Riverside ed.) 
 
 How Thoreau built a little house in the woods and lived there with only 
 birds and animals and flowers for neighbors. 
 
 Torrey, Bradford. Clerk of the woods. Houghton, 1912. 
 
 Weekly chronicle of things out of doors, like birds and berry pastures 
 and chipmunks. 
 
 Wood, Samuel T. Rambles of a Canadian naturalist. Dutton, 
 1916. 
 
 Seventy very brief, readable essays written by a suburban observer of a 
 Canadian city. 
 
 BIRDS AND BLOSSOMING 
 
 There are arbutus days in one's calendar, days when the trail- 
 ing flower fairly calls him to the woods. — ^John Burroughs. 
 
 Burroughs, John. Wake-robin. Houghton, 1893. 
 
 A book about birds that brings home the river and the sky and the sparrow 
 singing at dawn in the alder bush. — Preface. 
 
 Hudson, William Henry. Adventures among birds. Dutton, 
 1915. 
 
 His work is a vision of natural beauty and human life as it might be, 
 quickened and sweetened by the sun and rain and by fellowship with all other 
 forms of life. The finest vision now being given to us who are more in want 
 of it than any generation has ever been. — John Galsworthj'. 
 
 Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann). Bird ways, by Olive Thorne Miller. 
 Houghton, 1885. 
 
 Pleasant record of observations of thrushes, owls, blackbirds and sparrows. 
 
 Torrey, Bradford. Field days in California. Houghton, 1913. 
 
 Vivacious essays on bird life in California and on the pleasure of reading 
 a check list. 
 
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 GARDENS 
 
 Little garden gods, 
 
 You of good bestowing, 
 
 You of kindly showing 
 Mid the pottings and the pods, 
 Watchers of geranium beds. 
 
 Pinks and stocks and such-like orders, 
 Rose and sleepy poppy-heads — 
 
 Bless us in our borders. 
 Little garden gods. 
 
 Little garden gods, 
 
 Bless the time of sowing. 
 
 Watering and growing; 
 Lastly when our sunflower nods, 
 And our rambler's red array 
 
 Waits the honey-bee her labours. 
 Bless our garden that it may 
 
 Beat our next-door neighbour's, 
 Little garden gods. 
 
 — Patrick Chalmers. Green days and blue days. 
 
 Cable, George Washington. The amateur garden. Scribner, 1914. 
 
 Pleasant essays on the charm of gardens that express the owner's indi- 
 viduality, with illustrations drawn from Massachusetts and New Orleans. 
 
 Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman) and Castle, Egerton. Our 
 
 sentimental garden. Lippincott, 1914. 
 
 Romantic description of a Sussex garden, showing how and when to enjoy 
 green things growing. 
 
 Earle, Alice Morse. Old time gardens. Macmillan, 1916. 
 
 Sketches of charming gardens in different parts of the world, emphasizing 
 their literary or historical associations. The lure of the garden, by Hil- 
 degarde Hawthorne (Century, 1911) has the same purpose. 
 
 Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. C. W. Earle). Potpourri from a 
 Surrey garden. Button, 1898. 
 
 A garden lover's journal, with lively comments on flowers, garden books 
 and other topics. 
 
 Flint, Martha Bockee. Garden of simples. Scribner, 1900. 
 
 Book of folk-lore, plant-lore and poet-lore, good to read in winter by the 
 driftwood fire. — Nation, igoo. 
 
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 Hyatt, Alfred H., comp. A book of gardens. Foulis, n. d. 
 
 Ten charming essays on gardens, including Ruskin, Cowper, Christopher 
 North. His Book of Old-world gardens, has ten earlier English essays 
 on the same subject. 
 
 Moore, Frank Frankfort. A garden of peace. Doran, 1920. 
 
 Rambling papers on the delights of making a formal garden, interspersed 
 with reminiscences of books and plays and chats with the author's little 
 daughter. 
 
 Tabor, Grace. Old-fashioned gardening. McBride, 1913. 
 
 Expresses the elusive charm of early American gardens, Dutch, Quaker, 
 Puritan, Cavalier, and Spanish. Mount Vernon and Monticello are de- 
 scribed in the chapter on Presidents' gardens. 
 
 Thaxter, Mrs. Celia (Laighton). An island garden. Houghton, 
 1904. 
 
 Description of the little garden on Appledore, Isle of Shoals, one~of the 
 most famous American gardens. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. 
 
 Warner, Charles Dudley. My summer in a garden. Houghton, 
 1898. 
 
 Celebrates the love of dirt, the joy of growing cabbages and other garden 
 delights. 
 
 THE FOOTPATH WAY 
 
 Hazlitt's own confession from his essay "On going a journey" 
 is so good that there should be a tax laid on all who have not 
 read it : 
 
 "Give me the clear blue sky above my head," says he, "and 
 the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me and a 
 three hours march to dinner — and then to thinking! It is hard if 
 I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, 
 I leap, I sing for joy." — Stevenson. Walking tours. 
 
 Baker, Ray Stannard. The friendly road; new adventures in 
 contentment, by David Grayson. Doubleday, 1913. 
 
 Cheerful account of the author's three weeks' walking trip, his thoughts 
 and experiences and the friends he made by the way. — Best Books, 1913. 
 
 Belloc, Hilaire. Hills and the sea. Scribner, 1906. 
 
 Of excursions of two jolly friends, who found that "the best way of all 
 is on foot, where one is a man like any other man, with the_ sky above one, 
 and the road beneath, and the world on every side, and time to see all." 
 
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 Brooks, Charles S. Journeys to Bagdad. Yale university press, 
 1916. 
 
 "Are you of that elect who, certain seasons of the year — perhaps in March 
 when there is timid promise of the spring or in the days of October when 
 there are winds across the earth and gorgeous panic of fallen leaves — are you 
 of that elect who, on such occasion, or any occasion else, feel stirrings in 
 you to be quit of whatever prosy work is yours, to throw down your book 
 or ledger, or your measuring tape — if such device marks your service — and 
 to go forth into the world?" 
 
 Grahame, Kenneth. Pagan papers. Lane, 1898. 
 
 Essays on the romance of the road, loafing, the fairy wicket and similar 
 subjects. 
 
 Jackson, Holbrook. Southward ho! and other essays. Button, 
 n. d. (Wayfarer's library). 
 
 "Anyone can go a journey, but every journey is a pilgrimage for those who 
 go to Nowhere. To set out for Nowhere requires courage, therefore those 
 who go there may be said to be alive. They are ready to take their chances 
 and do not barter with a guide-book for promises of scenery, antiquities, or 
 other conventional reward, at the end of the day's march. Enough for 
 them the open road and the things life offers by the wayside." 
 
 Sidgwick, Arthur Hugh. Walking essays. Arnold, 1912. 
 
 Delectable reminiscences, redolent of fresh fields and new pathways. 
 
 "It may be evening, in London, in company: yet the noise of the traffic 
 dies away; the glare of the light and the babble of others drops from you: 
 you are alone with a kindred soul and (ii possible) a map spread out between 
 you. Then point by point, detail by detail, you recall the larger movements 
 of your hfe; every path that you have taken, every stone and summit on 
 which you stood, revive and take place under the plastic stress of your joint 
 memories; the outline of the eternal hills stands before you, loud and high 
 as the call of duty: once more the soft rain enwraps you or the clean wind 
 whips you into ecstasy. For a moment in the midst of our dividing and 
 abstracting civilization you are again a man whole and concrete." 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus puerisque, and other 
 papers. Scribner, 1904. 
 
 Two of these essays. Walking tours and the Apology for idlers, are written 
 in holiday mood and set forth with deft touches the delights of the open 
 road and the receptive mind. 
 
 Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions. Houghton, [cl893]. 
 
 "It is true, we are but faint-hearted crusaders, even the walkers, nowadays 
 who undertake no persevering, never-ending enterprises. Our expeditions 
 are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearthside from 
 which we set out. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in 
 the spirit of undying adventure, never to return — prepared to send back 
 our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms." 
 
 Torrey, Bradford. Footing it in Franconia. Houghton, 1901. 
 
 Happy chronicles of the birds and beasts and flowers seen in the New 
 England mountains. 
 
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 LANDS AND PEOPLES 
 
 There are many places uncharted that are worth a visit. 
 Treasure Island is somewhere on the seas, the still-vexed Ber- 
 moothes feel the wind of some southern ocean, the coast of Bohemia 
 lies on the furthermost shore of fairyland — all of these wonderful, 
 like white towers in the mind. . . If we must be ocean 
 liners all day, plodding between known and monotonous ports, 
 at least we may be tramp ships at night, cargoed with strange 
 stuffs and trafficking for lonely and unvisited seas. — Brooks. 
 Journeys to Bagdad. 
 
 Brown, Alice. By oak and thorn. Houghton, 1896. 
 
 Essays in praise of gypsying in English byways and of the delectable 
 sights and foods to be found there. 
 
 Crothers, Samuel McChord. Humanly speaking. Houghton, 
 1912. 
 
 The contemporaneousness of Rome, The unaccustomed ears of Europe, 
 the Toryism of travellers are the amusing reactions of an observant Bostonian. 
 
 Curie, James Herbert. This world of ours. Doran, 1921. 
 
 After two essays describing how the author found the world his oyster, he 
 sketches adventures in little known places, Caracas, the Andes, Jerusalem, 
 Cochin China and a journey from Archangel to Astrachan. 
 
 Heam, Lafcadio. Exotics and retrospectives. Little, 1898. 
 
 Graceful studies of experiences in two hemispheres, picturing the beauty 
 of Fuji-yama and the quaint charm of insect musicians with the same fidelity 
 of detail. 
 
 Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan. Houghton, 1894. 2 v. 
 
 Studies of the inner life of Japan, written with exquisite sympathy and 
 delicate charm of style. 
 
 Irving, Washington. The Alhambra. Putnam, 1891. (Knicker- 
 bocker ed.) 
 
 "It was my endeavour scrupulously to depict its half Spanish, half oriental 
 character, its mixture of the heroic, the poetic, the grotesque; to revive the 
 traces of grace and beauty fast fading from its walls; to record the regal and 
 chivalrous traditions concerning those who once trod its courts." 
 
 The sketch-book. Putnam, 1897. (Knickerbocker ed). 
 
 "I was always fond of visiting new scenes and observing strange characters 
 I have wandered through different countries and witnessed 
 many of the shifting scenes of life. I cannot say that I have studied them 
 with the eye of a philosopher, but rather with the same sauntering gaze 
 with which the lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print- 
 shop to another." 
 
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 Howells, William Dean. Familiar Spanish travels. Harper, 1913. 
 
 Thirteen graceful essays which describe with inimitable charm and appre- 
 ciation things and people seen on the conventional six weeks' tour of Spain. 
 — Best Books, 1 91 3. 
 
 Hudson, William Henry. A traveler in little things. Button, 
 1921. 
 
 Some of the little things, described with imagination and sympathy for 
 elusive beauty, are English villages and villagers, apple blossoms, the vanishing 
 curtsey, little girls and birds and insects. The title was suggested by a 
 chance encounter in a commercial hotel with a pompous gentleman who 
 traveled in "something very large." 
 
 James, William Powell. The lure of the map. 2d ed. Methuen, 
 1920. 
 
 Shows how the Atlas is for all tastes, for all pieties and all patriotisms, 
 and how the tales of pilgrims, pirates and merchant adventurers have a 
 perpetual fascination. 
 
 Jefferies, Richard. Field and hedgerow. Longmans, 1900. 
 
 He is an enchanter who at will transports you into the midst of a green 
 English landscape, where the swallows skim the corn-fields and the butter- 
 flies flutter among the wildflowers, where the chaffinch chirps from the ex- 
 panding oak leaves, and the water sparkles to the sunshine. — Art Journal, 1893. 
 
 McFee, William. Harbours of memory. Doubleday, 1921. 
 
 Sketches written on board ship and in intervals between voyages, bringing 
 into harbour cargoes from many places, curiosities from faraway coasts 
 and glimpses of the author's own experiences. 
 
 Marks, Jeannette. Gallant little Wales. Houghton, 1912. 
 
 As a guidebook this volume will be found to contain too few unpronounce- 
 able place names to be adequate, but as an introduction to the North Welsh 
 land, its customs, its village life, its little churches, its holiday possibilities, 
 its folklore and romance, its music, its cottages and castles, the essays are 
 charming. 
 
 Morley, Christopher. Travels in. Philadelphia. McKay, 1920. 
 
 Where else shall we find the simplicity, the gayety, the kindly humor, 
 and the charm of this gentle essayist? Who, other than Morley, could 
 make a walk out Market Street of interest and a source of fun? — A. E. 
 Newton, Introduction. 
 
 Paget, Violet. The tower of the mirrors and other essays on 
 the spirit of places, by Vernon Lee. Lane, 1914. 
 
 Little essays of a traveler who has visited the less known comers of Europe 
 with the seeing eye and a mind saturated with atmosphere and culture, 
 and has been able to crystallize her exquisite impressions into the happiest 
 words. — Booklist, 1914. 
 
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 Scarborough, Dorothy. From a southern porch. Putnam, 1919. 
 
 Why rush about seeking adventure and change, when you can sit quietly 
 on a porch and have things come to you? Delightful things, too, from 
 graceful poetic fancies and old negro melodies to friendly toads and confiding 
 ghosts. The porch philosophy inspires the reader with a longing to loaf 
 and observe life and savor the passing moments, and get rested up before 
 dying, so as to be fresh for whatever adventure offers itself on the other side. 
 — Nation, 1920. 
 
 Symons, Arthur. Cities and sea-coasts and islands. Brentano, 
 1918. 
 
 Colorful pictures of Spanish cities and the coasts of Cornwall, Brittany 
 and Ireland. 
 
 Tomlmson, H. M. London River. Knopf, 1921. 
 
 Eleven essays relating the lore of the sailing vessel, its voyages and tradi- 
 tions, and the wharves and inns and dull streets where its legends are preserved. 
 
 Old junk. Knopf, 1920. 
 
 Sketches of voyages and travels to strange parts of the world: the African 
 coast, Tampa, and sand-dunes in a nameless world. 
 
 Van Dyke, Henry. Little rivers; a book of essays in profitable 
 idleness. Scribner, 1903. 
 
 Refreshing sketches of rivers in this country and abroad, full of the joys 
 of angling and camping in pleasant woodlands. 
 
 AMERICAN MIND AND MANNERS 
 
 This soil is propitious to every seed, and tares must needs 
 grow in it, but why should it not also breed clear thinking, honest 
 judgment and rational happiness? — Santayana. Character and 
 opinion in the United Stales. 
 
 Bridges, Horace James. On becoming an American. Marshall 
 Jones, 1919. 
 
 Reflections of an Englishman who has become an American citizen, show- 
 ing the contrast between the spirit of America and of Europe. 
 
 "In the Old World you are shown the beautiful or stately products of a 
 wondrous past; you cannot withhold your admiration for the works pro- 
 duced by men of old ... In the new world you are paid the greater 
 compliment of being asked to contribute to the inspiration of the future, 
 to aid in creating the miracles of art and science that unborn men shall 
 wonder at!" 
 
 Canby, Henry Seidel. Everyday Americans. Century, 1920. 
 
 Thoughtful and lucid appraisement of the American college and high 
 school graduates and their part in reconstruction. 
 
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 Eliot, Charles William. American contributions to civilization. 
 Century, 1897. 
 
 Nineteen essays and addresses on social and political subjects, marked by 
 constructive thinking and clear diction. 
 
 Holliday, Robert Cortes. Men and books and cities. Doran, 1920. 
 
 Gossip about book men and book stores and casual comments on a journey 
 from Indianapolis to the Pacific coast. 
 
 LoweU, James Russell. Democracy and other papers. Houghton, 
 1887. 
 
 The title essay is a clear and carefully reasoned definition of democracy 
 as a political experiment based on idealism. 
 
 Matthews, James Brander. The American of the future and other 
 essays. Scribner, 1909. 
 
 Fifteen entertaining and sensible essays on American character, manners, 
 humor, etc. — Best Books, igog. 
 
 Nicholson, Meredith. The man in the street ; papers on American 
 topics. Scribner, 1921. 
 
 "Let Main Street alone!" begins this book of American essays, and in 
 it Mr. Nicholson makes a plea for the small town. Other papers are on The 
 cheerful breakfast table, A church for honest sinners, The second-rate 
 man in politics. How, then, should Smith vote? The poor old EngUsh language. 
 
 The provincial American and other papers. Houghton, 
 
 1912. 
 
 What a typical citizen of Indiana thinks about the tired business man, 
 best sellers, and Smith at church. 
 
 Perry, BUss. The American mind. Houghton, 1912. 
 
 Essays at once logical and discursive, sane and humorous, based on study 
 of American traits in American literature. 
 
 Repplier, Agnes. Americans and others. Houghton, 1912. 
 
 Fourteen piquant and well-written essays, giving shrewd observations on 
 poUteness, goodness and gayety, enthusiasm and other aspects of contem- 
 porary manners. 
 
 Counter currents. Houghton, 1916. 
 
 Brilliant, witty, conservative chapters criticizing sharply, from a back- 
 ground of sound sense, certain policies and tendencies of the day and especially 
 some side issues of the European war, particularly women and war, and the 
 hyphenated American. — Best Books, igi6. 
 
 Roosevelt, Theodore. American ideals and other essays, social 
 and political. Putnain, 1897. 
 
 Discusses practical politics with common sense and a healthy idealism. 
 
y 
 
 32 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Santayana, George. Character and opinion in the United States 
 with reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and 
 academic life in America. Scribner, 1920. 
 
 Comments on the American mind before the war as it appeared to a keen 
 observer. 
 
 Sedgwick, Henry Dwight. The new American type, and other 
 essays. Houghton, 1902. 
 
 Twelve popular essays, written with humor and critical acumen, on various 
 aspects of literature, art and education. 
 
 SCHOOLS AND SOCIETY 
 
 What is this supreme symbol that educational establishments 
 like to use on their stationery? It is one hand holding a torch 
 and another hand open to receive it. If it means anything, it 
 means that something illuminative is passing, or can be passed, 
 from one human being to another — from teacher to scholar. 
 — Yeomans. Shackled youth. 
 
 Aydelotte, Frank. The Oxford stamp and other essays. Oxford 
 university press, 1917. 
 
 Pertinent comparisons of college life and teaching in Oxford and American 
 universities, showing what a Rhodes scholar brought to his teaching: the idea 
 of a community of young men, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic and observant, 
 to whom discussion and study became as natural as sport. 
 
 Beith, John Hay. The lighter side of school life, by Ian Hay. 
 Foulis, 1919. 
 
 Amusing sketches of boys and masters in English schools, written with a 
 whimsical understanding of the compensations that come to teachers. 
 
 Canby, Henry Seidel. College sons and college fathers. Harpers, 
 1915. 
 
 The first five essays deal with the undergraduate as a broad-minded pro- 
 fessor sees him; the other five discuss problems of culture and democracy 
 the college must meet. 
 
 Crothers, Samuel McChord. The dame school of experience, and 
 other papers. Houghton, 1920. 
 
 The teacher's dilemma. The perils of the literate. Education in pursuit 
 of Henry Adams, and related topics are discussed with humor and penetrating 
 insight. 
 
 Dewey, John. The school and society. Rev. ed. University 
 of Chicago press, [cl915]. 
 
 Constructive papers on the part played by the school in the daily life of 
 children. 
 
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 Dunn, Mrs. Martha (Baker). Cicero in Maine, and other essays. 
 Houghton, 1905. 
 
 Delightful papers, showing how Cicero and the .^neid lived for boys 
 and girls in Maine. 
 
 Gayley, Charles Mills. Idols of education. Doubleday, 1910. 
 
 Crisp and provocative essays, applying Bacon's classification of accepted 
 traditions to educational fetishes. 
 
 Henderson, Charles Hanford. Education and the larger life. 
 Houghton, 1902. 
 
 Sane and carefully-worked-out suggestions for furthering the progress 
 of civilization through education. 
 
 Huxley, Thomas Henry. Science and education. Appleton, 1901. 
 A scientist's lucid exposition of the value of biology in education. 
 
 James, William. Talks to teachers on psychology and to students 
 on some of life's ideals. Holt, 1914. 
 
 Includes three delightful essays on The gospel of relaxation, A certain 
 blindness in human beings. What makes a life significant, as well as the con- 
 cise psychological papers. 
 
 Jordan, David Starr. The voice of the scholar. Elder, 1903. 
 
 Inspiring papers on different aspects of university education. 
 
 Newman, John Henry, Cardinal. The idea of a university defined 
 and illustrated. Longmans, 1902. 
 
 Of all the books in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more 
 profitably thumb and ponder than this volume . . . The book is 
 so wise — so eminently wise — as to deserve being bound by the young student 
 of literature for a frontlet on his brow and a talisman on his writing wrist. 
 — Quiller-Couch. On the art of writing. 
 
 Palmer, George Herbert. The teacher. Houghton, 1908. 
 
 Of the twelve essays by Professor Palmer, The ideal teacher and The 
 glory of the imperfect, lead in interest and inspiration. Four papers by 
 Mrs. Palmer dealing with the education of woman are included. 
 
 Pearson, Francis Bail. Reveries of a schoolmaster. Scribner, 
 1917. 
 
 Kindly papers on the lighter side of teaching. 
 
 Sharp, Dallas Lore. Patrons of democracy. Atlantic monthly 
 press, 1920. 
 
 Shows the need for common schools open to everyone, rather than private 
 schools, in the development of democracy. 
 
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 Yeomans, Edward. Shackled youth. Atlantic monthly press, 
 1921. 
 
 vSound and stimulating ideas of a Chicago manufacturer on the teaching 
 of geography, history and literature, and other educational questions. 
 
 ART 
 
 So long as men care for art they will go on talking about it, as 
 they have been talking about it since art began, for there is no 
 greater happiness than that which is to be found in disinterested 
 talk about the things of the mind. — Cortissoz. A rt and commonsense. 
 
 Arts and crafts exhibition society, London. Arts and crafts 
 essays, by members of the society; with preface by William 
 Morris. Longmans, 1899. 
 
 Essays by well-known craftsmen on design and handicraft, textiles, wall- 
 paper, furniture, printing and other topics, written to call attention to "that 
 really most important side of art, the decoration of utilities by furnishing 
 them with genuine artistic finish." 
 
 Babbitt, Irving. The new Laokoon; an essay on the confusion 
 of the arts. Houghton, 1910. 
 
 Critical study which defines the classic, pseudo-classic and romantic move- 
 ments in art, literature and music. 
 
 Cortissoz, RoyaL Art and com^mon sense. Scribner, 1913. 
 
 Advocates the use of common sense, good judgment and a sense of humor 
 in criticism of art and applies these qualities in the discussion of Whistler, 
 Sargent, Spanish art, the post-impressionists and other subjects. 
 
 Cox, Kenyon. Artist and public, and other essays on art subjects. 
 Scribner, 1911. 
 
 Studies of the work of Millet, Raphael, St. Gaudens and other American 
 artists, showing the relationship of each artist to his time. 
 
 The classic point of view. Scribner, 1911. 
 
 Six papers, stressing the value of high standards in art, characterized by 
 nobility and restraint, rather than by novelty. 
 
 Cram, Ralph Adams. The ministry of art. Houghton, 1914. 
 
 Essays of a mediaevalist, revealing the ways in which "abstract art may 
 do more than make life beautiful, in that it can act symbolically, tropically, 
 sacramentally, and so become the supreme means of expressing, and of in- 
 citing and exalting those emotions which transcend experience." 
 
 Hind, Charles Lewis. Art and I. Lane, 1921. 
 
 "I have shaped the essays into groups — The art of to-day, The art of to- 
 morrow, The art of yesterday, Art and Mr. X. I do believe that according 
 
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 to my strength and vision, I have ranged the field of art tolerably com- 
 l)rehensively; and if there be those who object to the title of the book, — all 
 I can say in defence is — well, that describes it. It is my reaction to our 
 Lady Art. I love her. I have spent much of my life trying to understand 
 and appreciate her, and all I have written here about my adventures is just 
 a true tale." 
 
 Huneker, James. Promenades of an impressionist. Scribner, 
 1910. 
 
 Vivid sketches of the personal preferences of the author, ranging in subject 
 from Velasquez and Botticelli to Cezanne. 
 
 McDowall, Arthur. Realism, a study in art and thought. Con- 
 stable, 1918. 
 
 An attempt to discover the theory of realism in art and its connection — 
 if it has any — with realism in thinking. 
 
 Mather, Frank Jewett, jr. Estimates in art. Scribner, 1916. 
 
 Readable comments by a well-known critic of catholic tastes, on El Greco, 
 Goya, Sorolla, Vermeer, and Chinese and Japanese painting. 
 
 Morris, William. Hopes and fears for art. Longmans, 1901. 
 
 Describes with characteristic enthusiasm aspects of arts and crafts made 
 by the people and for the people, satisfying to the makers and the users. 
 
 Phillips, Duncan. The enchantment of art as part of the enchant- 
 ment of experience. Lane, 1914. 
 
 Personal and persuasive appreciations of painting, concerned chiefly 
 with impressionism. 
 
 Ruskin, John. Modem painters. Allen, 1901. (Brantwood 
 edition) . 
 
 Comments on life and art, characterized by intellectual independence, 
 spiritual insight and colorful phrasing. 
 
 Tolstoi, Lyof Nikolaevich, graf. What is art? Tr. from the 
 Russian by A. Maude. Crowell, 1898. 
 
 Presents the author's convictions regarding the mission of art in developing 
 the brotherhood of man. 
 
 Van Dyke, John Charles. What is art? Scribner, 1910. 
 
 Studies in the technique and criticism of painting, from the point of view 
 of an artist who recognizes art as an expression of life. 
 
 Whistler, James McNeill. The gentle art of making enemies, 
 as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the 
 serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been 
 prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while 
 overcome by an undue sense of right. Heinemann, 1890. 
 Comment is superfluous. 
 
36 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Woodbury, Charles Herbert. Painting and the personal equation. 
 Houghton, 1919. 
 
 One may envy the painting classes that heard such talks. His counsels 
 abound in mother wit and are blessedly free from the jargon of the studios. 
 He advocates a modified naturalism. — Weekly Review, ig20. 
 
 MUSIC 
 
 People are not bom with a taste for good music. Neither do 
 they achieve it suddenly, nor have it thrust upon them. No. 
 The well-rounded musical amateur is the product of a long evolu- 
 tion. The lover of good music has developed his love only by 
 passing through every successive stage of musical enthusiasm 
 from supreme delight in the rattle solo to supreme delight in, say, 
 the Choral symphony. — Schaufiler. Musical amateur. 
 
 Gilman, Lawrence. Nature in music and other studies in the 
 tone poetry of today. Lane, 1914. 
 
 Graceful sympathetic studies, about program music, opera in English, and 
 other recent phases of music. 
 
 Huneker, James. Overtones ; a book of temperaments. Scribner, 
 1906. 
 
 Brilliantly written comments on Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, 
 Nietzsche and Turgenieff, with plangent interludes on literary men who 
 loved music. 
 
 Mason, Daniel Gregory. Contemporary composers. Macmillan, 
 1918. 
 
 Six interesting and authoritative essays: Democracy and music; Richard 
 Strauss; Sir Edward Elgar; Claude Debussy; Vincent d'Indy; Music in 
 America. Completes the series of great creative musicians begun in 
 Beethoven and his forerunners and continued in The romantic composers and 
 From Grieg to Brahms. — Best Books, iqi8. 
 
 Newman, Ernest. A musical motley. Lane, 1919. 
 
 Diverting essays that enliven the tasks of a musical critic, on such subjects 
 as Putting the classics in their place, Nonsense music. Quotation in music. 
 
 RoUand, Romain. Musicians of today; tr. by Mary Blaiklock. 
 Holt, 1914. 
 
 Well-written and authoritative papers chiefly on French and German 
 music. In Some musicians of former days (1915), the author discusses the 
 first operas, Lully Gluck, Gretry and Mozart. 
 
 Rosenfeld, Paul. Musical portraits. Harcourt, 1920. 
 
 Illuminating interpretations of the work of twenty modem composers. 
 
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 Schauffler, Robert Haven. The musical amateur. Houghton, 
 1911. 
 
 This book champions the cause of musical enthusiasm. It holds that 
 the true listener plays almost as real and vital a part in the making of music 
 as the composer or the performer, and it points the way by which everyone 
 may become a "creative" listener and an infectious source of "creative" 
 listening. — Preface. 
 
 Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. Suum cuique; essays in 
 music. Schirmer, 1916. 
 
 The first paper is a plea for freedom from tradition in composition; the 
 others discuss aspects of music in America. 
 
 Surette, Thomas Whitney. Music and life; a study of the rela- 
 tions between ourselves and music. Houghton, 1917. 
 
 Discusses what music is, music for children, public school music, community 
 music, the opera and the symphony, in the hope of making music intelligible 
 to the hearer. 
 
 Van Vechten, Carl. Music and bad manners. Knopf, 1916. 
 
 In addition to the title essay, contains five amusing and authoritative 
 studies of modem tendencies in music. 
 
 ETERNAL VERITIES 
 
 Every day that is bom into the world comes like a burst of 
 music, and sings itself all the day through, and thou shalt make 
 of it a dance, a dirge or a life march, as thou wilt. — Carlyle. 
 
 Burroughs, John. Accepting the universe. Houghton, 1920. 
 
 It is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. 
 "Gad, she'd better", retorted Carlyle. From his own experience John 
 Burroughs has formulated his credo: "On the whole and in the long run, as 
 I am never tired of asserting, Nature is good. The universe has not mis- 
 carried. The celestial laws do not need to be worked over and rectified." 
 
 Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr 
 Teufelsdrockh. Scribner, 1897. (Centenary ed.) 
 
 In the guise of a review of a German treatise on dress, Carlyle expresses 
 his own ideas of the meaning of social and religious conventions. Chaotic, 
 explosive, dynamic, the book shows the use of visible things as the clothing 
 of the spirit and the ultimate triumph of spiritual values. 
 
 Cram, Ralph Adams. Gold, frankincense and myrrh. Jones, 1919. 
 
 Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the monastic ideal, frankincense 
 the supreme act of worship through the blessed sacrament, myrrh the saving 
 grace quaUty of a right philosophy of life . . . the three gifts that 
 must be offered by a world once more led to worship and fall down before 
 the God so long and so lightly denied. — Preface. 
 
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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays. Houghton, 1889. 2 v. 
 
 Compensation, spiritual laws, love, friendship and other noble subjects 
 are discussed with serene faith and certainty of phrase. 
 
 Huxley, Thomas Hemy. Lay sermons. Appleton. 
 
 Contains the famous essay On a piece of chalk, which has been called a 
 perfect handling of a trivial subject so as to make it a window into the infinite. 
 
 Russell, George William. The candle of vision, by M. Mac- 
 millan, 1918. 
 
 Mystical experiences of the Celtic poet. 
 
 There are also windows in the soul through which can be seen images 
 created not by human but by divine imagination ... I have tried 
 to discriminate between that which was self-begotten fantasy and that which 
 came from a higher sphere. — Preface. 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the plains, with other memories 
 and essays. Scribner, 1903. 
 
 One of the essays is the magnificent Christmas sermon, one of the finest 
 of modem essays, rich in wisdom, noble in feeling, transparent in sincerity. 
 — Walker. English essays. 
 
 EVERYDAY ETHICS 
 
 Life is a struggle, but not a warfare; it is a day's labor; but 
 labor on God's earth under the sun and stars with other laborers, 
 where we may think and sing and rejoice as we work. — Burroughs. 
 
 Bennett, Arnold. How to live on twenty-four hours a day. 
 Doran, 1910. 
 
 Readable plea for the employment of spare moments in self-improvement, 
 either by reading or reflection. 
 
 Cabot, Richard Clarke. What men live by. Houghton, 1914. 
 
 The value and significance of work, play, love and worship, the four elements 
 which the author believes are essential for normal living. 
 
 Dawson, William James. The book of courage. Revell, 1911. 
 
 Sympathetic inspiring essays on the cultivation of a brave spirit in meeting 
 the vicissitudes of life — failure, lost friendships, sudden tragedy, leaving 
 famihar things, ill-health, bereavement, old age. — Best Books, igii. 
 
 Erskine, John. The moral obligation to be intelligent. Duffield, 
 1915. 
 
 When the wise man brings his list of our genuine admirations, will intel- 
 ligence be one of them? 
 
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 Keller, Helen. Optimism; an essay. Crowell, 1903. 
 
 Three brief chapters embodying the hopeful philosophy of the brave young 
 author. — Best Books, ipoj. 
 
 Park, John Edgar. The bad results of good habits and other 
 lapses. Houghton, 1920. 
 Genial essays that teach in unorthodox ways simple methods of being 
 happy and making others so. 
 
 Wilson, Woodrow. When a man comes to himself. Harper, 1915. 
 
 Expresses the belief that after a man comes to himself he knows "what 
 his powers mean, what spiritual air they breathe, what ardors of service 
 clear them of lethargy, relieve them of all sense of effort, put them at their 
 best." 
 
 WRITING 
 
 As literature is an art and therefore not to be pondered only, 
 but practised, so ours is a living language and therefore to be 
 kept alive, supple, active in all honorable use. — Quill er-Couch. 
 On the art of writing. 
 
 Colby, Frank Moore. Constrained attitudes. Dodd, 1910. 
 Literary platitudes and follies, journalism, the self-complacent and literal- 
 minded, and other things criticizable are pricked by the author's good-natured 
 satire in eleven witty, cleverly phrased essays. — Best Books, ipio. 
 
 Eastman, Max. Journalism versus art. Knopf, 1916. 
 
 An able and often amusing indictment of the "good bad stuff," pictorial 
 and literary, which fills the pages of the current cheap American magazines. 
 His arguments against free verse and spelling reforms are also ingenious and 
 thought provoking. 
 
 Eliot, Thomas Steams. The sacred wood; essays on poetry and 
 criticism. Methuen, 1920. 
 A poet's theories of the function of criticism as an exact science. 
 
 Matthews, James Brander. Essays on English. Scribner, 1921. 
 
 Pleasant papers, showing the English language in this country and abroad 
 in process of growth. 
 
 Overton, Grant Morton. Why authors go wrong. Moffat, 1919. 
 
 Eight gay little talks about authors, publishers, reviewers, and teachers 
 of English. 
 
 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas. On the art of writing. 
 Putnam, 1916. 
 Brilliant essays showing that literature is not a mere science to be studied, 
 but an art to be practised. The interlude On jargon is commended to all 
 writers. 
 
40 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 READING 
 
 I sometimes fear that reading, in the old-fashioned sense, may- 
 become a lost art. The habit of resorting to the printed page 
 for information is an excellent one, but it is not what I have in 
 mind. A person wants something and knows where to get it. 
 He goes to a book just as he goes to a department store. Knowl- 
 edge is a commodity done up in a neat parcel. Literature, properly 
 so called, is quite different from this, and literary values inhere 
 not in things or even ideas, but in persons. There are some rare 
 spirits that have imparted themselves to their words. The book 
 then becomes a person, and reading comes to be a kind of con- 
 versation. — Crothers. Gentle reader. 
 
 Counsel upon the reading of books. Houghton, 1900. 
 
 Wise counsel by seven authors: A preface on reading and books by Henry 
 Van Dyke; History by H. Morse Stephens; Memoirs and biographies by 
 Agnes Repplier; Sociology, economics and politics by Arthur T. Hadley; 
 The study of fiction by Brander Matthews; Poetry by Bliss Perry; Essay 
 and criticism by Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 Crothers, Samuel McChord. The gentle reader and other essays. 
 Houghton, 1903. 
 
 Pleasant chats on the enjoyment of poetry, the honorable points of 
 ignorance, the obligation of historians to be readable and other topics. 
 Written for the Gentle Reader rather than for the Modem Intelligent Read- 
 ing Public. 
 
 Harrison, Frederic. Choice of books. Macmillan, 1886. 
 
 A plea for the reading of good books, for as Harrison says, we need to be 
 reminded every day how many are the books of inimitable glory which with 
 all our eagerness after reading we have never taken into our hands. 
 
 Jenkins, MacGregor. The reading public. Houghton, 1914. 
 
 Brief, witty, unpretentious discussion of types of magazine readers and 
 contributors, by the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly. — Best Books, 1914. 
 
 Kerfoot, John Barrett. How to read. Houghton, 191G. 
 
 The literary critic of Life shows the average "man in the street" that 
 reading is a creative process. 
 
 Larned, Josephus Nelson. Books, culture and character. Hough- 
 ton, 1906. 
 
 Pleasantly written suggestions concerning reading and the choice of 
 books. 
 
 Lee, Gerald Stanley. The lost art of reading. Putnam, 1902. 
 
 Clever and erratic criticisms of hasty methods of reading and thinking. 
 Urges the need for imagination, for entrance examinations in joy and for old - 
 fashioned librarians. 
 
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 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas. On the art of reading. 
 Putnam, 1920. 
 
 Vivacious talks to Cambridge students on the delights of reading and the 
 importance of children's books. Reading the Bible is a plea for treatment 
 of the Bible as literature. 
 
 Smith, Charles Alphonso. What can literature do for me? 
 Doubleday, 1913. 
 
 On the service of books in widening the reader's field of vision and showing 
 him the glory of the commonplace. 
 
 THE BOOKSHELF 
 
 Paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed 
 a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we 
 read a new book. — Roger Mifflin in The haunted bookshop. 
 
 Arnold, Matthew. Essays in criticism. Macmillan, 1902. 2 v. 
 (Eversley series). 
 
 In these papers on different writers Arnold displays the tolerant wisdom, 
 clarity of thought and expression and ardent sincerity that he demands 
 in his essay on the fimctions of criticism. 
 
 Bagehot, Walter. Literary studies. Longmans, 1891. 2 v. 
 
 Sane and vigorous criticism of the first Edinburgh reviewers. Hartley 
 Coleridge, Shelley, Shakespeare and other writers, characterized by humor 
 and keen insight. 
 
 Beers, Hemy Augustus. The Connecticut wits and other essays. 
 Yale university press, 1920. 
 
 He unearths Joel Barlow and those other neglected spirits of old Con- 
 necticut; and then allows his fancy to range over such themes as the poetry 
 of the cavaliers, Shakespeare's contemporaries, Thackeray and Sheridan. 
 In manner these essays are scholarly, informative and suavely graceful. 
 — Freeman, igzo. 
 
 Birrell, Augustine. Obiter dicta. Scribner, 1904. 2 v. 
 
 Discriminating criticism and urbane humor characterize these essays as 
 well as his other works: Essays about men, women and, books (1894), Essays 
 and addresses (1901), Res judicatae (1892). 
 
 In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays. Scribner, 
 
 1905. 
 
 Bookworms, Confirmed readers, First editions, Gossip in a library. Librar- 
 ians at play. Old pleasure gardens. Old booksellers are the titles of some of 
 the other urbane and sparkling essays. 
 
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 Boyd, Ernest Augustus. Appreciations and depreciations. Lane, 
 [cl917]. 
 Six pleasantly informal essays on Irish authors. 
 
 Bradford, Gamaliel. A naturalist of souls. Dodd, 1917. 
 
 The psychographic method, that is, the use of significant detail arranged 
 to produce a "crescendo" effect instead of the chronologic biographical 
 method, is employed in these essays on Donne, Trollope, Dumas, Leopardi, 
 Ovid, Pliny, Francis de Sales. 
 
 Chapman, Robert William. Portrait of a scholar, and other 
 essays written in Macedonia, 1916-1918. Oxford press, 1921. 
 
 No echo of war disturbs these bookish pleasures which carried the author 
 through the Macedonian campaign. Shaw's Pygmalion suggests an excellent 
 paper on spelling reform, and the essays on rhyme, the art of quotation, 
 Johnson in Scotland, and the textual criticism of English classics abound 
 in references which make it difficult to imagine that they were written far 
 from the sources to which they refer. No reader can fail to be affected by 
 their tone of mellow learning and captured by their unaffected style. — 
 Literary review, igsi. 
 
 Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Heretics. Lane, 1905. 
 
 Brilliant comments on the non-conformist ideas of Shaw, Wells, George 
 Moore, Celts and Celtophiles, Whistler and slum novelists. Orthodoxy 
 (1908) was written in reply to critics of this book. 
 
 Varied types. Dodd, 1903. 
 
 Having discovered that it is far more daring and original to defend con- 
 ventionality than to defend a cart-load of revolutions, Chesterton's papers 
 on Charlotte Bronte, Morris, Pope, Rostand, Alfred the Great, Tennyson 
 and other writers show his characteristic love of paradox and vivid phrasing. 
 
 Victorian age in literature. Holt, 1913. (Home uni- 
 versity library). 
 
 Refreshingly original interpretation of significance of the Victorian age 
 as a whole with clever critical estimates of its prominent authors. Style 
 is trenchant, sparkling and wholly pleasing. — Best Books, 1913. 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia literaria. Button, 1908. 
 
 (Everyman's library). 
 
 Coleridge, a catholic mind, with a hunger for ideas; with eyes looking 
 before and after to the highest bards and sages, and who wrote and spoke 
 the only high criticism in his time, is one of those who saves England from 
 the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest 
 wit the island has yielded. — Emerson. English traits. 
 
 Essays and lectures on Shakespeare and some other 
 
 old poets and dramatists. Button, 1909. (Everyman's 
 library) . 
 
 He made the first serious attempt to grasp the totality of Shakespeare's 
 work and to trace out the inner history of his mind through the chronological 
 chaos in which the dramas were still involved. — Herford. Age of Wordsworth. 
 
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 Cook, Sir Edward Tyas. Literary recreations. Macmillan, 1918. 
 
 Delightfully phrased essays of a great biographer including among others, 
 The art of biography, The art of indexing, A study in superlatives (a com- 
 parison of authors' lists of best books). More literary recreations by the 
 same author, (1919), contains three charming classical studies on Pliny's 
 letters, the classics in daily life and the Greek anthology. Other essays 
 areonTravellingcompanions,Theart of editing. The changes and corruptions 
 of words and Single poem poets. 
 
 Courtney, W. L. Old saws and modem instances. Chapman, 
 1918. 
 
 Critical studies of modern literature contrasted with ancient examples, 
 including comparisons of Brieux with Euripides, and Hardy's Dynasts with 
 Aeschylus. 
 
 Dobson, Austin. Eighteenth century vignettes. Chatto, 1896. 
 3 V. (St. Martin's Hbrary). 
 
 Characteristic little pictures of Swift, Johnson, Dodsley, Richardson, 
 and other worthies. 
 
 Old Kensington palace, and other papers. Stokes, 1910. 
 
 Essays distinguished for their literary quality and for their keen sympathy 
 with little known persons of the eighteenth century. 
 
 Duclaux, Agnes Mary Frances (Robinson). Twentieth century 
 writers (reviews and reminiscences). Scribner, 1920. 
 
 Brilliant and scholarly discussion of sixteen recent French writers with 
 chapters on the pastoral novel and the novel of childhood. 
 
 Fitch, George Hamlin. Comfort found in good old books. Elder, 
 1911. 
 
 Appreciative essays on books that made life possible to the author after 
 the death of his only son. 
 
 Follett, Helen Thomas and FoUett, Wilson. Some modem nov- 
 elists. Holt, 1918. 
 
 Illuminating and readable criticisms of Meredith, James and their con- 
 temporaries, as well as the younger generation, W. B. Maxwell, Theodore 
 Dreiser and Ethel Sidgwick, based on the theory that "the distinctive char- 
 acteristic of modern fiction is its intensification of the feeling of human soli- 
 darity." 
 
 Freeman, John. The modems. Crowell, 1917. 
 
 Sane and thoughtful essays on Shaw, Wells, Hardy, Maeterlinck, Henry 
 James, Conrad, Patmore, Francis Thompson, Robert Bridges, written with 
 sympathy and a knowledge of general Enghsh literature. 
 
44 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Garnett, Richard. Essays of an ex-librarian. Heinemann, 1901. 
 
 Bears the imprint of the writers' personality as a steward and student of 
 books interested in those nice minor questions which arise among professed 
 bookmen. The work of one curious in the odd corners and quiet byways of 
 literature. — Pittsburgh Catalog, igo2-6. 
 
 George, Walter Lionel. Literary chapters. Little, 1918. 
 
 Provocative criticisms of contemporary novels, novel-writing and readers, 
 entertaining and typical of the modem ironic attitude toward life. 
 
 Goldring, Douglas. Reputations, essays in criticism. Seltzer, 
 1920. 
 
 Scores H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, and Compton Mackenzie and condemns 
 clever novels for their futility. 
 
 Gosse, Edmund William. Books on the table. Scribner, 1921. 
 
 A sheaf of recent essays by the distinguished critic, including The last 
 years of Disraeli, Boythorn in the flesh. Autobiography and Mrs. Asquith 
 and other penetrating papers. 
 
 Some diversions of a man of letters. Scribner, 1919. 
 
 Illuminating discussion of fluctuations of literary taste, with comments 
 on some of the figures in the history of English literature which have suffered 
 from the changes of fortune and the instability of taste. 
 
 Three French moralists. Scribner, 1918. 
 
 The object of these essays is to trace back to some of its sources the spirit 
 of gallantry which inspired the young French officers in the beginning of the 
 war. The author in searching for the germ of this exalted sentiment has 
 chosen three seventeenth century moraUsts who inculcated their sentiments 
 by means of the maxim: La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Vauvenargues. 
 The last essay. The gallantry of France, is a roll call of the young soldier- 
 authors who died on the field of honor, Lintier, Allard-Meeus, Drouet, Nolly, 
 seeking in each the present day expression of the ancient high chivalry and 
 spiritual dedication of France. — Open Shelf, IQIQ. 
 
 Hazlitt, William. Lectures on the English comic writers, with 
 miscellaneous essays. Button, 1910. (Everyman's library). 
 
 It is impossible to read them without catching something of the ardour 
 of his own enthusiasm, and it says much for the soundness of his taste and 
 judgment that the great majority of the criticisms emerged undistorted from 
 the glowing crucible of his thought. — Lobban. English essays. 
 
 Lectures on the Enghsh poets; and the spirit of the age. 
 
 Button, 1910. (Everyman's library). 
 
 Great as Hazlitt was as a miscellaneous and Montaignesque essayist, he 
 was greater as a literary critic. The four great collections of his criticism, 
 The characters of Shakespeare, The Elizabethan dramatists, The English 
 
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 poets and The English comic writers, with not a few scattered things in 
 his other writings, make what is on the whole the best body of criticism by 
 a single writer in English on English. He is the critics' critic as Spenser 
 is the poets' poet. 
 
 Heam, Lafcadio. Interpretations of literature, selected and 
 
 edited with an introduction by John Erskine. Dodd, 1915. 
 
 2v. 
 
 Illuminating lectures to Japanese students, preserved in their class notes, 
 
 and published under the titles Interpretations of literature. Appreciations 
 
 of poetry and Life and literature. They reveal literature as the best expression 
 
 of intimate experiences and the art of reading or of criticism as the art of 
 
 discrimination among experiences. 
 
 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Carlyle's laugh and other sur- 
 prises. Houghton, 1909. 
 
 Illuminating sketches of literary friends and contemporaries — Thoreau, 
 Bancroft, Stedman, Emily Dickinson, Julia Ward Howe, and others. 
 
 Hind, Charles Lewis. Authors and I. Lane, 1921. 
 
 Pleasant chats spiced with personal reminiscences of authors famous in 
 the nineties and later, by the former editor of the Academy. 
 
 Howells, William Dean. My literary passions. Harper, 1895. 
 
 "To give an account of one's reading is in some sort to give an account 
 of one's life," the author says, and in these pleasant papers Howells describes 
 the books he read in childhood and in later years. 
 
 Hudson, William Henry. A quiet corner in a library. Rand, 1915. 
 
 Leisurely, appreciative rather than critical, essays on Tom Hood, Henry 
 Carey, George Sills and Samuel Richardson. 
 
 Hunt, Leigh. Leigh Hunt as poet and essayist; being passages 
 from his works selected and edited with biographical intro- 
 duction by Charles Kent. Warne, 1891. (Cavendish library) . 
 
 It was Leigh Hunt's special gift to find excellence in good men and good 
 books. As a constructive critic, he may not have been of the first rank, 
 but as an understanding appreciator, a finger-post of beauty he has no superior. 
 — Lucas. Lamb. 
 
 Men, women and books. Scribner, 1908. 
 
 A critic whose subtlety of discrimination and whose soundness of judg- 
 ment, supported as it was on a broad base of truly liberal scholarship, have 
 hardly yet won fitting appreciation. — Lowell. Prose works. 
 
 Wit and htunor. Scribner, 1890. 
 
 Next to the pleasure he took in books was that he derived from teaching 
 others to take pleasure in them. Witness his Wit and humor and his 
 Imagination and fancy, to my mind the greatest treasures in the way of 
 handbooks that have ever been offered to students of English literature 
 and the completest antidotes to pretence in it. — Payn. Some private views. 
 
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 Hutton, Lawrence. Talks in a library. Putnam, 1905. 
 
 Personal and literary recollections including reminiscences and anecdotes 
 of Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Joseph Jeflferson, vSt. Gaudens, Du Maurier, 
 Mark Twain, Dickens and many other well known people. — Best Books, J905. 
 
 James, Henry. Notes on novelists, with some other notes. 
 Scribner, 1914. 
 
 Keen insight and delicate phrasing characterize these remarkable critical 
 essays, rich in knowledge of books and men, which reveal Henry James 
 himself as much as Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, George Sand, 
 d'Annunzio, Matilde Seraor, the younger Dumas. 
 
 Johnson, Lionel Pigot. Reviews and critical papers, ed. with 
 an introduction by Robert Shafer. Button, 1921. 
 
 Supplements an earlier collection published in 1912. Brilliant reviews of 
 new books by an Englishman whose "learned good sense was informed by 
 prolonged contact with the greatest and best in classical and modem litera- 
 ture." 
 
 Lang, Andrew. Adventures among books. Longmans, 1905. 
 
 RambHng talks about Stevenson, Mrs. Radcliffe, St. Augustine and other 
 writers who have interested Lang. 
 
 "One good thing, if no more, these memories may accomplish. Young 
 men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend 'a course 
 of reading'. Distrust a course of reading. People who really care for 
 books read all of them. There is no other course. Let this be a reply. No 
 other answer shall they get from me, these inquiring young men." 
 
 Letters to dead authors. Scribner, 1893. (Cameo ed.) 
 
 One of the minor masterpieces of literature, the keenest and cleverest 
 volume of playful criticism since the Fahle jor critics. — Brander Matthews. 
 
 Lowell, James Russell. Among my books. Houghton, 1899. 2 v. 
 
 How much of the allurement of the essay style did Lowell keep, however 
 scholar-like his quest, in papers literary, historical, even philosophical! In 
 a veritable essay-subject like On a certain condescension in foreigners, 
 he displays himself as of the right line of descent from Montaigne; there is 
 in him all that unforced winsome, intimate, yet ever restrained revelation 
 of self which is the essayist's model and despair. — Burton. Forces in fiction 
 and other essays. 
 
 Lynd, Robert. The art of letters. Scribner, 1921. 
 
 It may be because Mr. Lynd is an Irishman, and a "good Irishman" to 
 boot, that his writing has the charm of an easy and urbane conversationalist. 
 He allows his mind to adventure among the masterpieces of English literature 
 from Pepys and Bunyan to the Georgian poets of to-day. He has the faculty 
 for catching the reader's interest by his first sentence and bringing him into 
 a subject which the impatient might be tempted to pass. — The Literary Review, 
 1 92 1. 
 
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 Lynd, Robert. Old and new masters. Scribner, 1919. 
 
 Studies written with humor and ranging in subject from Pope and Jane 
 Austen to Chesterton and Shaw. 
 
 Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Critical and historical essays, 
 contributed to the Edinburgh Review. Houghton, 1900. 3 v. 
 (Cambridge ed.) 
 
 His essays are as good as a library. They make an incomparable manual 
 and vade mecum for a busy, uneducated man who has curiosity and enlighten- 
 ment enough to wish to know a little about the great lives and great thoughts, 
 the shining words and many-colored complexities of action that have marked 
 the journey of man through the ages. Whatever his special subject, he con- 
 trives to pour into it with singular dexterity a stream of rich, graphic and 
 telling illustrations from widely diversified sources. — Morley. Fortnightly 
 Review, i8^6. 
 
 Mais, Stuart Petre Brodie. Books and their writers. Dodd, 1920. 
 
 Popular essays on many contemporary and some older English writers, 
 among them Compton Mackenzie, Norman Douglas, Stephen McKenna, 
 Clemence Dane, Dorothy Richardson, J. C. Squire, Siegfried Sassoon and 
 Robert Nichols. 
 
 Massingham, J. H. Letters to X. Button, 1920. 
 
 Essay letters, ranging widely over books and literature in general; reflective, 
 marked by sincerity and high critical ability. 
 
 Meynell, Mrs. Alice. Hearts of controversy. Scribner, 1917. 
 
 A critical consideration of Dickens, the Brontes, Tennyson and Swinburne 
 with two essays on literary tendencies. 
 
 Her aim is to chide, to rectify, to re-establish; her mind is athletic, her 
 eye steady; her style deliberate and secure. The main virtue of Mrs. 
 Meynell's criticism lies in the fact that it is a criticism of character. — New 
 Statesman, IQIQ. 
 
 More, Paul Elmer. Shelbume essaj^s. Putnam, 1904-1921. 11 v. 
 
 Serious careful criticisms of literature, ranging over a wide field and marked 
 by thorough scholarship and careful analysis, v. 8 has the title: Gift of 
 romanticism; v. 9 Aristocracy and justice; v. 10 With the wits; v. 11 A New 
 England group, and others. 
 
 Morley, John. Studies in literature. Macmillan, 1891. 
 
 Like his Critical miscellanies, keen comments on French and English 
 writers. 
 
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 Myers, Frederic William Henry. Essays — classical. Macmillan, 
 
 1888. 
 
 Papers on Vergil, Greek oracles and Marcus Aurelius, marked by effective 
 construction and an exceptional power of imparting his interest to the reader. 
 Essays — modern (1883) is devoted to Mazzini, George Sand, Victor Hugo, 
 Ernest Renan, Archbishop Trench, and Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. 
 
 Pater, "Walter. Appreciations; with an essay on style. Mac- 
 millan. 1889. 
 
 Marvellously written essays, rich in vivid words and musical phrases, 
 dealing sympathetically with Coleridge, Sir Thomas Browne, Shakespeare, 
 Rossetti and Feuillet. 
 
 Essays from the Guardian. Macmillan, 1901. 
 
 Nine critical reviews, written in magical prose, of books as varied as AmieVs 
 Journal and Wordsworth's poems. 
 
 Perry, Bliss. Park-street papers. Houghton, 1908. 
 
 Graceful, genial contributions to the Atlantic Monthly during ten years 
 of editorship, including four New Year prologues and appreciations of Haw- 
 thorne, Longfellow, Aldrich, Whittier and F. H. Underwood. — Best Books, igo8. 
 
 Phelps, William Lyon. Essays on modem dramatists. Macmillan, 
 1921. 
 
 Readable papers on Barrie, Shaw, Galsworthy, Clyde Fitch, Maeterlinck, 
 and Rostand. The chapter on Clyde Fitch is a vivid picture of an unusual 
 personality, based on personal acquaintance. 
 
 Essays on modem novelists. Macmillan, 1910. 
 
 Engaging criticisms and characterizations of the subject matter and 
 philosophy of life of De Morgan, Hardy, Howells, Bjomson, Ward, Kipling, 
 and Lorna Doom. — Best Books, igio. 
 
 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas. Studies in literature. Putnam, 
 1918. 
 
 Vivacious papers on English literature from the time of the ballads to 
 Swinburne. 
 
 "You will scarcely deny that to some of you Tennyson is 'the sort of 
 stuff your uncle read.' Well, bethink you that the children of yet 
 another generation will deal so and not otherwise with your heroes; it 
 is all a part of the continuous process of criticism through which our 
 roseate raptures and our lurid antipathies pass, if not into the light of common 
 day, into that of serene judgment. Blame not your uncle that at the age 
 of fourteen, in the walled garden screened from the windows of the house, 
 he charged among the vegetables chanting 
 
 'A bow-shot from her bower eaves 
 He rode between the barley-sheaves.' 
 For to dream of these things and to wake and find oneself an uncle — that is 
 the common lot." 
 
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 Repplier, Agnes. Essays in miniature. Houghton, 1895. 
 
 Short, diverting comments on such subjects as. Conversation in novels, 
 A short defence of villains. Children in fiction, Three famous old maids and 
 other literary topics. 
 
 A happy half-century, and other essays. Houghton, 
 
 1908. 
 
 Reflections spiced with smiHng malice, on the pious, ornate and sentimental 
 products of the half-century 1775-1825. — Best Books, 1908. 
 
 Points of view. Houghton, 1891. 
 
 Beginning with a plea for humor Miss Repplier comments on books that 
 have hindered her, literary shibboleths, and other topics with the gaiety 
 and honesty she commends to others. 
 
 Ruskin, John. Sesame and HHes, with introduction by C. E. 
 Norton. Longmans, 1891. (Brantwood ed.) 
 
 Three lectures: the first. Of kings' treasuries, shows the value and use of 
 books; the second, Of queens' gardens, discusses the education of women 
 and their place in society; the third. The mystery of life and its arts, gives 
 principles on which Ruskin's theory of life is based. 
 
 Sherman, Stuart Pratt. On contemporary Hterature. Holt, 1917, 
 
 Stimulating and original criticism of the naturalism which the author 
 thinks characteristic of Wells, Dreiser and George Moore, and of Anatole 
 France's skepticism, Synge's exoticism, Bennett's realism, Henry James' 
 idealism, George Meredith's humanism, Mark Twain's democracy, Alfred 
 Austin's toryism and Shakespeare's universality. 
 
 Squire, John Ceilings. Life and letters. Doran, 1921. 
 
 Sparkling comments by a clever observer, on writers new and old, on 
 split infinitives and short cuts to Helicon. 
 
 Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a library. Putnam, 1905. 4 v. 
 
 Just and kindly criticism of English writers, from Horace Walpole to 
 Coleridge. 
 
 Studies of a biographer. Putnam, 1898-1902. 4 v. 
 
 Delightful comments on famous Englishmen, by-products of Stephen's 
 work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar studies of men and books. 
 Scribner, 1902. 
 
 Men whom I loved; or when I did not love the men, my love was greater 
 to their books. — Preface. 
 
 Contains chapters on Hugo, Burns, Whitman, Thoreau, Villon, Pepys, 
 Yoshida- Toraj iro . 
 
50 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Thackeray, William Makepeace. English humorists of the 
 eighteenth century, with illustrations by the author and 
 John Leeds and Harry Furniss. Macmillan, 1911. 
 
 Vivid and sympathetic sketches of Swift, Addison, Hogarth, Sterne, 
 Goldsmith and their contemporaries, saturated with the eighteenth century 
 spirit. 
 
 Thoindike, Ashley Horace. Changing hterature in Victorian 
 England. Macmillan, 1920. 
 
 Shows how various movements in science, industry, democracy, etc., have 
 affected hterature, especially in the Victorian period. The chapter on 
 Carlyle is noteworthy. — Open Shelf, iq2I. 
 
 Torrey, Bradford. Friends on the shelf. Houghton, 1906. 
 
 Gracefully written essays on Hazlitt, Fitzgerald, Thoreau, Stevenson, 
 and Anatole France. 
 
 Trent, William Peterfield. Authority of criticism, and other 
 essays. Scribner, 1899. 
 
 Scholarly discussion of the science of criticism and an application of its 
 principles to the work of Shelley, Horace, Byron, Tennyson and W. D. 
 Howells. 
 
 Warner, Charles Dudley. Relation of literature to life. Harper, 
 1897. 
 
 Reflections on the worth of literature in life, showing that all enduring 
 literature is the outcome of the time that produces it. 
 
 Waugh, Arthur. Tradition and change; studies in contemporary 
 literature. Button, 1919. 
 
 Discerning and tolerant papers on literary subjects, written with due 
 respect for the heritage of the past and sympathy for the demands of the pre- 
 sent. 
 
 Wilson, Woodrow. Mere literature, and other essays. Houghton, 
 
 1896. 
 
 The first essay is a spirited plea for the consideration of literature as an 
 art, and the other papers deal with the author himself, an author's choice 
 of company, Bagehot, Burke, and several great Americans. 
 
 Woodberry, George Edward. Great writers: Cervantes, Scott, 
 Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shakespeare. Macmillan, 1907. 
 
 Scholarly, critical essays. The Torch (1905) traces the development of 
 the race-mind by means of the literature of different ages. 
 
 Studies of a litterateur. Harcourt, 1921. 
 
 Pleasant papers on English and American writers; Pepys, Rossetti, Lowell, 
 Shelley, Rupert Brooke and others. 
 
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 Yeats, William Butler. The cutting of an agate. Macmillan, 1912. 
 
 I have been busy with a single art, that of the theatre, of a small unpopular 
 theatre; and this art may well seem to practical men, busy with some program 
 of industrial or political regeneration, of no more account than the shaping 
 of an agate; and yet in the shaping of an agate, whether in the cutting or 
 the making of the design, one discovers, if one has a speculative mind, 
 thoughts that seem important and principles that may be appUed to life 
 itself, and certainly if one does not believe so, one is but a poor cutter of 
 so hard a stone. — Preface. 
 
 With the exception of the essay on Spenser the papers are concerned with 
 the literar>^ renaissance in Ireland. 
 
 Essays, Irish and American. Macmillan, 1918. 
 
 Friendly, discursive essays, with personal sketches of Samuel Butler and 
 Synge, vivid glimpses of the Irish home where the art of conversation flourishes 
 and a comment on Watts' method of art. 
 
 POETRY 
 
 For what is it to hate poetry? It is to have no little dreams 
 and fancies, no holy memories of golden days, to be unmoved 
 by serene mid-stmimer evenings or dawn over wild lands, sing- 
 ing or sunshine, little tales told by the fire a long while since, 
 glow-worms and briar-rose; for of all these and more is poetry 
 made. It is to be cut off forever from the fellowship of great 
 men that are gone; to see men and women without their haloes 
 and the world without its glory; to miss the meaning lurking 
 behind common things, like elves hiding in flowers; it is to beat 
 one's hands all day against the gates of Fairyland, and to find 
 that they are shut and the country empty and its kings gone 
 hence. — Dunsany. Nowadays. 
 
 Aiken, Conrad. Scepticisms, notes on contemporary poetry. 
 Knopf, 1919. 
 
 Discriminating comments on English and American poets and poetry, 
 preceded by an essay on the difficulties of impartial criticism. The title 
 comes from the author's uncertainty about the "resultant crops" of the 
 new poetry. 
 
 De La Mare, Walter John. Rupert Brooke and the intellectual 
 imagination. Harcourt, 1920. 
 
 One poet's sympathetic analysis of the work of another, written in exquisite 
 prose. 
 
 Drinkwater, John. Prose papers. Mathews, 1917. 
 
 In the first four essays the author discusses poetry as the finest instrument 
 of education and the most effective guide to conduct. The other essays are 
 concerned with Sidney, Gray, Coleridge, the Brontes, Watts-Dunton, Rupert 
 Brooke and other poets. 
 
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 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, isth baron. 
 Nowadays. Four seas company, 1918. (Seven arts series). 
 
 A brief essay addressed to all who work for the joy of creating and are 
 thus akin to poets. 
 
 "For what is it to be a poet? It is to see beauty in all its forms and mani- 
 festations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as bitterly 
 as one's own, to know nature as botanists know a flower, to be thought a 
 fool, to hear at moments the clear voice of God." 
 
 Eastman, Max. Enjoyment of poetry. Scribner, 1913. 
 
 Appreciative, discriminating essays on poetry and the poetic, "leading to 
 a fresh identification of course and meaning of our poetic moods, to a new 
 perception of their spontaneous expression in daily talk and of the relation- 
 ship of both these things to the writing and reading of poetry. ' ' — Best Books, 1913 . 
 
 Erskine, John. The kinds of poetry and other essays. Duffield, 
 1920. 
 
 Four essays in which a teacher, himself a lover of poetry, shows how the 
 study of poetry may be made an open door into the house of wonder. 
 
 Heam, Lafcadio. Appreciations of poetry; selected and edited 
 by John Erskine. Dodd, 1916. 
 
 Illuminating studies of Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, and 
 William Morris, selected from lectures given at Tokyo and preserved in the 
 notebooks of Japanese students. The critic has a rare knowledge of human 
 nature and approaches books from the creative point of view. 
 
 Lowell, Amy. Six French poets; studies in contemporary htera- 
 ture. Macmillan, 1915. 
 
 Shows that the key to the French spirit is found in the devotion of the 
 French people to the arts, and discusses characteristic writers of a great 
 poetical epoch: Emile Verhaeren, Albert Samain, RemydeGourmont, Henri 
 de Rcgnier, Francis Jammes and Paul Fort. 
 
 Tendencies in modem poetry. Macmillan, 1917. 
 
 Interesting critical interpretation of the new movement in poetry, using 
 six contemporary poets as examples — Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert 
 Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Hilda DooUttle Aldington 
 (H. D.) and John Gould Fletcher. Miss Lowell, a poet herself and a personal 
 friend of all six poets, brings sympathy and understanding to her work. — Best 
 Books, 1917. 
 
 Lowell, James Russell. The function of the poet and other 
 essays, collected and edited by Albert M. Houghton, 1920. 
 
 The spirit of this lecture is so fine, its tone so full of the enthusiasm of 
 youth, its conception of the poet so lofty and the truths it contains so im- 
 portant, that it may well be prized as the expression of a genius, which if 
 not yet mature, is always powerful, and aquiline in sweep of wing. — C. E. 
 Norton. 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS S3 
 
 Lowes, John Livingston. Convention and revolt in poetry. 
 Houghton, 1919. 
 
 "Carlyle once said of Tennyson, 'Alfred is always carrying a bit of chaos 
 around with him, and turning it into cosmos.' Well, that is poetry's job, 
 and it is amazingly like the enterprise of life. And one reason why poetry 
 is worthy of the consideration of men and women breathing thoughtful 
 breath, in this return to chaos, is the fact that poetry's essence is also, in 
 a sense that is profoundly true, the goal of life — it is creative energy made 
 effective through restraint." 
 
 Noguchi, Yone. The spirit of Japanese poetry. Button, 1914. 
 (Wisdom of the East series). 
 
 A Japanese poet's comment on the austere brevity of the best Japanese 
 poetry in contrast to the fluency of English poets. He names selection, 
 simplification and concentration as qualities essential to literary art. 
 
 Palmer, George Herbert. Formative types in English poetry. 
 Houghton, 1918. 
 
 Critical essays on seven poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Herbert, Pope, Words- 
 worth, Tennyson, Browning, who have influenced the technique of English 
 poetry and reflected the spirit of their times. The introductory essay 
 analyzes the principles of the poetic art. 
 
 Perry, Bliss. Study of poetry. Houghton, 1920. 
 
 Aims "to set forth in decent prose some of the strange potencies of sense; 
 its power, for instance, to seize upon a physical image like that of a woman 
 planting bulbs in Katharine Tynan's poem, and transmute it into a symbol 
 of the resurrection of the dead; its capacity for turning fact into truth and 
 brown earth into beauty; for remoulding the broken syllables of human 
 speech into sheer music." 
 
 Santayana, George. Interpretations of poetry and religion. 
 Scribner, 1900. 
 
 His idea is that religion and poetry are identical in essence and differ merely 
 in the way in which they are attached to practical affairs. Poetry is called 
 religion when it intervenes in life, and religion, when it merely supervenes 
 upon life, is seen to be nothing but poetry. 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Defense of poetry; ed. by A. S. Cook. 
 Ginn. 
 
 Shelley in his beautiful essay, itself a poem, wrote of poetry as a way of 
 apprehending all phases of life. — Erskine. Kinds of poetry, 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip. An apologie for poetrie; ed. by J. C. 
 Collins. Oxford, 1907. 
 
 The stormie winter (deere chyldren of the Muses) which hath so long 
 held backe the glorious sunshine of diuine poesie is heere by the sacred pen- 
 breathing words of diuine Sir Philip Sidney not onely chased from our fame- 
 inviting Clyme, but vtterly foreuer banisht etemitie. — Henry Olney, Apologie 
 for poesie, 1595. 
 
54 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Thompson, Francis. Shelley. Burns & Oates, 1909. 
 
 Beautifully written comment on Shelley, emphasizing his spontaneity 
 and the child-like quality of his imagination. 
 
 "Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different 
 from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters 
 of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief, 
 it is to be so little the elves can reach to whisper in your ears; it is to turn 
 pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, and nothing into everything, 
 for each child has its fairy god-mother in its own soul; it is to live in a nut- 
 shell and count yourself the king of infinite space." 
 
 Watts-Dunton, Theodore. Poetry and The renascence of wonder. 
 Button, 1916. 
 
 Two essays, from the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Cyclopedia of 
 English Literature, reprinted with additions, showing the nature and forms 
 of poetry and the revival of romantic temper in English poetry at the end 
 of the eighteenth century. 
 
 COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS 
 
 Of all literary forms the personal essay appears the most art- 
 less, a little boat that sails us into pleasant havens, without any 
 chart or compass. To read is as if we overheard some one chat- 
 ting with that little merry-heart, his own particular Ego. 
 The self-annalist whose essays warm our hearts with friendship 
 must be one who sips the wine of mirth when all alone with his 
 own Self. Not many such are born and fewer of them write essays. 
 The essay is no easy thing. The true mood and the true manner of 
 it are rare. It is as difficult to write an essay on purpose as it is 
 to be a person on purpose, a teasing game and unsatisfactory. 
 — Kirkland. Joys of being a woman. 
 
 Atlantic classics. Atlantic monthly press, 1916-1918. 2 v. 
 
 Two collections each containing sixteen essays on varied subjects by well- 
 known authors who write with distinction of thought and style. Reprinted 
 from the Atlantic. 
 
 An excellent and much needed antidote for the gospel of punch. — Spring- 
 field Republican. 
 
 Berdan, John Milton, ed. Modem essays, selected and edited 
 by John Milton Berdan [and others]. Macmillan, 1915. 
 
 Thirty-three notable modern essays, selected by members of the English 
 faculty at Yale to illustrate principles of exposition. 
 
 Brewer, David Josiah, ed. The world's best essays from the 
 earliest period to the present time. Kaiser, 1908. 10 v. 
 
 Comprehensive selection including well-known examples of the work of 
 famous essayists. 
 
VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 55 
 
 Bronson, Walter Cochrane, ed. American prose (1607-1865). 
 University of Chicago, 1916. 
 
 Essays, tales and orations from thirty-eight writers beginning with John 
 Smith and ending with Lincoln. Contains textual notes and criticisms for 
 use as a text-book. 
 
 English essays. Holt, 1906. 
 
 Typical selections from twenty-nine English writers, illustrating the 
 development of the essay from Bacon and Milton to Stevenson. 
 
 Bryan, William Frank, ed. The EngHsh familiar essay, ed. by 
 William Frank Bryan and Ronald S. Crane. Ginn, 1916. 
 
 Illustrates the development of the essay from Montaigne to Stevenson 
 by means of eighty essays chosen from fifteen writers. 
 
 Cody, Sherwin, comp. Selections from the best English essays, 
 illustrative of the history of English prose style. McClurg, 
 1903. 
 
 Characterizes Bacon, Swift, Addison, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Emerson, 
 Macaulay, Ruskin and Arnold and gives examples of their work. 
 
 Matthews, James Brander, ed. The Oxford book of American 
 essays. Oxford university press, 1914. 
 
 Intended for an English public, the thirty-two essays present "our sig- 
 nificant traits, the diversity and breadth of our interests, rather than individ ua 
 performers." Covers the period from FrankUn and Irving to Crothers 
 
 Morley, Christopher, ed. Modem essays. Harcourt, 1921. 
 
 A collection of essays from thirty recent writers, with an introduction 
 and unconventional biographical notes by Christopher Morley. 
 
 Rhys, Ernest and Vaughan, Lloyd, eds. A century of English 
 essays. Button, n. d. (Everyman's library). 
 An anthology ranging in time from Caxton to Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 
 Steeves, Harrison Ross and Ristine, Frank Humphrey, eds. 
 
 Representative essays in modem thought. American book 
 company, 1913. 
 
 Nineteen serious essays chosen for college study, including Mill's Of the 
 hberty of thought and James' Will to believe. 
 
 Tanner, William Maddux, ed. Essays and essay-writing. Atlantic 
 monthly press, 1918. 
 
 Sixty-nine diverting examples of the familiar essay, chosen from the 
 Contributors' club of the Atlantic Monthly. 
 
56 VIEWPOINTS IN ESSAYS 
 
 Vaughan, Charles Edwin, ed. English literary criticism. Scribner, 
 1896. (Warwick library). 
 
 Characteristic essays by nine English writers, from Sir Philip Sidney to 
 Walter Pater, which show the development of standards of criticism. 
 
 HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF ESSAYS 
 
 Davis, William Hawley. English essayists. Badger, 1916. 
 Sketches and comments on well-known essayists. 
 
 Walker, Hugh. The English essay and essayists. Dutton, 1915. 
 (Channels of English literature). 
 
 History of the development of the English essay, covering the years from 
 1597 to 1900. 
 
AUTHOR INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Addison, Joseph. Sir Roger de Coverley 18 
 
 J&, pseud. 5ee Russell, G. W. 
 
 Aiken, Conrad. Skepticisms , 51 
 
 Aldricb, T. B. Ponkapog papers 7 
 
 Alpha of the Plough, pseud. See Gardiner, A. G . 
 
 Arnold, Matthew. Essays in criticism 41 
 
 Arts and crafts exhibition society, London. Arts and crafts essays 34 
 
 Aydelotte, Frank. The Oxford stamp 32 
 
 Ayscough, John. Levia pondera 7 
 
 Babbitt, Irving. The new Laokoon 34 
 
 Bacon, Francis. Essays 7 
 
 Bagehot, Walter. Literary studies 41 
 
 Bailey, L. H. Holy earth 22 
 
 Baker, R. S. The friendly road 26 
 
 Great possessions 22 
 
 Beerbohm, Max. And even now 14 
 
 Beers, H. A. The Connecticut wits 41 
 
 Beith, J. H. The lighter side of school life 32 
 
 Belloc, Hilaire. First and last 7 
 
 HLUs and the sea 26 
 
 On anything 7 
 
 On everything 7 
 
 On nothing 7 
 
 This and tnat and the other 7 
 
 Bennett, Arnold. How to live on twenty-four hours a day 38 
 
 Our women 16 
 
 Things that have interested me 7 
 
 Benson, A. C. From a college window 11 
 
 The leaves of the tree 18 
 
 The silent isle 7 
 
 Berdan, J. M., ed. Modern essays 54 
 
 Bergengren, Ralph. The comforts of home 13 
 
 The perfect gentleman 15 
 
 The seven ages of man 19 
 
 Birrell, Augustine. Obiter dicta 41 
 
 In the name of the Bodleian 41 
 
 Boas, R. P., ed. Youth and the new world 20 
 
 Bourne, R. S. History of a literary radical 14 
 
 Youth and life 20 
 
 Boyd, E. A. Appreciations and depreciations 42 
 
 Bradford, Gamaliel. A naturalist of souls 42 
 
 Brewer, D. J., ed. The world's best essays 54 
 
 Bridges, H. J. On becoming an American 30 
 
 Bronson, W. C, ed. American prose 55 
 
 English essavs 55 
 
 Brooks, C. S. Cnimney pot papers 7 
 
 Hints to pilgrims 8 
 
 Journeys to Bagdad 27 
 
 There's pippins and cheese to come 13 
 
 Broun, H. C. Seeing things at night 8 
 
 Brown, Alice. By oak and thorn 28 
 
 Brown, John. Spare hours 18 
 
 Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio medici 12 
 
 Bryan, W. F., ed. The EngUsh familiar essay 55 
 
 Burroughs, John. Accepting the universe 37 
 
 Leaf and tendril 22 
 
 Signs and seasons 22 
 
 Under the maples 22 
 
 Wake-robin 24 
 
 Butler, Samuel. The humour of Homer 8 
 
 Cable, G. W. The amateur garden 25 
 
 Cabot, R. C. What men live by 38 
 
 Canby, H. 8. College sons and college fathers 32 
 
 Everyday Americans 30 
 
 Carlyle, Thomas. On heroes, hero worship and the heroic in history 18 
 
 Sartor resartus 37 
 
 Carrick, A. Van. L. Collector's luck 20 
 
 Castle, Mrs. A. 8. Our sentimental garden 25 
 
 Chapman, J. J. Memories and milestones 18 
 
 Chapman, R. W. Portrait of a scholar 42 
 
 Chesterton, G. K. Alarms and discursions 8 
 
 Heretics 42 
 
 Orthodoxy 42 
 
 The uses of diversity 8 
 
 57 
 
58 AUTHOR INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Chesterton, G. K. Varied types 42 
 
 Victorian age in literature 42 
 
 Cody, Sherwin, comp. Selections from the best English essays 55 
 
 Cohen, Alfred. When a man commutes 16 
 
 Colby, F. M. Constrained attitudes 39 
 
 Coleridge, S. T. Biographia literaria 42 
 
 Essays and lectures on Shakespeare 42 
 
 Colvin, Sir Sidney. Faces and places 18 
 
 Conrad, Joseph. Notes on life and letters 8 
 
 Conway, Sir Martin. Mountain Memories 21 
 
 Cook, Sir E. T. Literary recreations 43 
 
 More literary recreations 43 
 
 Cortissoz, Royal. Art and common sense 34 
 
 Coiu-tney, W. L. Old saws and modern instances 43 
 
 Cox, Kenyon. Artist and public 34 
 
 The classic point of view 34 
 
 Cram, R. A. Gold, frankincense and myrrh 37 
 
 Ministry of art 34 
 
 Crothers, S. M. Among friends 13 
 
 The dame school of experience 32 
 
 The gentle reader 40 
 
 Humanly speaking 28 
 
 The pardoner's wallet 8 
 
 Cumberland, Gerald, pseud. See Kenyon, C. F. 
 
 Curie, J. H. This world of ours 28 
 
 Davis, W. H. English essayists 56 
 
 Dawson, W. J. The book of courage 38 
 
 De La Mare, W. J. Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination 51 
 
 De Quincey, Thomas. English mail-coach 8 
 
 Dewey, John. The school and society 32 
 
 Dobson, Austin. Eighteenth century vignettes 43 
 
 Later essays 18 
 
 Old Kensington palace 43 
 
 Drinkwater, John. Prose papers 51 
 
 Duclaux, A. M. F. R. Twentieth century writers 43 
 
 Dunn, Mrs. M. B 33 
 
 Dunsany, E.J. M. D. P., 15th baron. Nowadays 62 
 
 Eagle, Solomon, pseud. See Squire, J. C. 
 
 Earle, A. M. Old time gardens 25 
 
 Earle, M. T. Potpourri from a Surrey garden 25 
 
 Eastman, Max. Enjoyment of poetry 52 
 
 Journalism versus art 39 
 
 Eaton, W. P. Green trails and upland pastures 23 
 
 Eliot, C. W. American contributions to civilization 31 
 
 Eliot, T. S. The sacred wood 39 
 
 Emerson, R. W. Essays 38 
 
 Erskine, John. The kinds of poetry and other essays 52 
 
 The moral obligation to be intelligent 38 
 
 Fabre, J. H. C. Life and love of the insect 23 
 
 Fitch, G. H. Comfort found in good old books 43 
 
 Flandrau, C. M. Prejudices 8 
 
 Flint, M. B. Garden of simples 26 
 
 Follett, H. T. Some modern novelists 43 
 
 Freeman, John. The moderns 43 
 
 Galsworthy, John. Inn of tranquillity 12 
 
 Gardiner, A. G. Pebbles on the shore 13 
 
 Windfalls 8 
 
 Garnett, Richard. Essays of an ex-librarian 44 
 
 Gass, S. B. A lover of the chair 12 
 
 Gayley, C. M. Idols of education 33 
 
 George, W. L. The intelligence of women 16 
 
 Literary chapters 44 
 
 Gerould, Mrs. K. F. Modes and morals 14 
 
 Gilman, Lawrence. Nature in music 36 
 
 Gissing, George. Private papers of Henry Ryccroft 12 
 
 Goldring, Douglas. Reputations 44 
 
 Gosse, E. W. Books on the table 44 
 
 Portraits and sketches 18 
 
 Some diversions of a man of letters 44 
 
 Three French moralists 44 
 
 Grahame, Kenneth. Pagan papers 27 
 
 Grant, Robert. Convictions of a grandfather 20 
 
 Grayson, David, pseud. See Baker, R. S. 
 
 Grey, Edward, viscount. Recreation 21 
 
 Guedalla, Philip. Supers and supermen 14 
 
 Harrison, Frederic. Choice of books 40 
 
 Hay, Ian, pseud. See Beith, John H. 
 
 Hazlitt, William. Lectures on the English comic writers 44 
 
 Lectures on the English poets 44 
 
AUTHOR INDEX 59 
 
 Page 
 
 Hazlitt, William. Table talk 9 
 
 Hearn, Lafcadio. Appreciations of poetry 52 
 
 Exotics and retrospectives 28 
 
 Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan 28 
 
 Interpretations of literature 45 
 
 Life and literature 45 
 
 Henderson, C. H. Education and the larger life 33 
 
 Hendrick, EUwood. Percolator papers 15 
 
 Hewlett, M. H. In a green shade 9 
 
 Higginson, T. W. Carlyle's laugh 45 
 
 Hind, C. L. Art and 1 34 
 
 Authors and I 45 
 
 Hine, R. L. The cream of curiosity 21 
 
 Holliday, R. C. Broome Street straws 13 
 
 Men and books and cities 31 
 
 Turns about town 18 
 
 Walking stick papers 16 
 
 HoweUs, W. D. Familiar Spanish travels 29 
 
 My literary passions 45 
 
 Hudson, W. H. A quiet corner in a library 45 
 
 A traveler in Uttle things 29 
 
 Adventures among birds 24 
 
 Humphrey, Zephine. The edge of the woods 9 
 
 Huneker, James. Bedouins 15 
 
 Ivory, apes and peacocks 15 
 
 Overtones 36 
 
 Promenades of an impressionist 35 
 
 Variations 9 
 
 Hunt, Leigh. Leigh Hunt as poet and essayist 45 
 
 Men, women and books 45 
 
 The wishing cap papers 9 
 
 Wit and humor 45 
 
 Hutton, Laurence. Talks in a library 46 
 
 Huxley, T. H. Lay sermons 38 
 
 Science and education 33 
 
 Hyatt, A. H. , comp. A book of gardens 26 
 
 Irving, Washington. The Alhambra 28 
 
 Sketch Book 28 
 
 Jackson, Holbrook. All manner of folk 19 
 
 Southward ho! 27 
 
 James, Henry. Notes on novelists 45 
 
 James, William. Talks to teachers on psycholog^y 33 
 
 James, W. P. The lure of the map 29 
 
 Jefferies, Richard. Field and hedgerow 29 
 
 The open air 23 
 
 The story of my heart 23 
 
 Jenkins, MacGregor. Literature with a large L 9 
 
 The reading pubUc 40 
 
 Johnson, L. P. Re-vaews and critical papers 46 
 
 Jordan, D. S. The voice of the scholar 33 
 
 Keller, Helen. Optimism 39 
 
 Kenyon, C. F. Set down in malice 19 
 
 Kerfoot, J. B. How to read 40 
 
 Kilmer, Joyce. The circus 9 
 
 Kirkland, Winifred. The joys of being a woman 16 
 
 The view vertical 9 
 
 Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia 9 
 
 Lang, Andrew. Adventures among books 46 
 
 Letters to dead authors 46 
 
 Larned, J. N. Books, culture and character 40 
 
 Lee, G. S. The lost art of reading 40 
 
 Lee, Vernon, pseud. See Paget, Violet. 
 
 Leith, W. C. Apologia diffidentis 12 
 
 Domus doloris 12 
 
 Sirenica lO 
 
 Littell, Philip. Books and things 15 
 
 Locker-Lampson, G. T. Thoughts in middle life 20 
 
 Lowell, Amy. Six French poets 52 
 
 Tendencies in modern poetry 52 
 
 Lowell, J. R. Among my books 46 
 
 Democracy 31 
 
 The function of the poet 52 
 
 Lowes, J. L. Convention and revolt in poetry 53 
 
 Lucas, E. V. Adventures and enthusiasms 9 
 
 Cloud and silver 9 
 
 Fireside and sunshine 13 
 
 Twixt eagle and dove 9 
 
 Lynd, Robert. The art of letters 46 
 
 Old and new masters 47 
 
60 AUTHOR INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 McArthur, Peter. The red cow and her friends 17 
 
 Macaulay, T. B. Critical and historical essays 47 
 
 McDowall, Arthur. Realism 35 
 
 McFee, William. Harbours of memory 29 
 
 Mackenzie, W. R. The quest of the ballad 21 
 
 Macleod, Fiona, pseud. See Sharp, William 
 
 Maeterlinck, Maurice. The treasure of the humble 12 
 
 Wisdom and destiny 12 
 
 Mais, S. P. B. Books and their writers 47 
 
 Marks, Jeannette. Gallant little Wales 29 
 
 Mason, D. G. Contemporary composers 36 
 
 Massingham, H. J. Letters to X 47 
 
 Masson, T. L. Well, why not? 10 
 
 Mather, F. J. Estimates in art 35 
 
 Matthews, J. B. The American of the future 31 
 
 Essays on English 39 
 
 , ed. Oxford book of American essays 55 
 
 Maynard, Theodore. Carven from the laurel tree 12 
 
 Mencken, H. L. Prejudices 15 
 
 Meynell, Mrs. A. C. T. Hearts of controversy 47 
 
 Miller, Mrs. H. M. Bird ways 24 
 
 MUler, O. T. See Miller, Mrs. H. M. 
 
 Milne, A. A. Not that it matters 10 
 
 If I may 14 
 
 Money-Coutts, F. B. Ventures in thought 10 
 
 Montaigne, M. E. de. Essays 10 
 
 Moore, F. F. A garden of peace 26 
 
 More, P. E. Shelburne essays 47 
 
 Morley, Christopher. Mince pie 14 
 
 ed. Modern essays 55 
 
 Pipefuls 16 
 
 Plum pudding 16 
 
 Travels in Philadelphia 29 
 
 Morley, John. Studies in literature 47 
 
 Morris, Mrs. E. W. Jonathan papers 23 
 
 Morris, William. Hopes and fears for art 35 
 
 Murray, J. M. The evolution of an intellectual 20 
 
 Myers, F. W. H. Essays — classical 48 
 
 Essays — modern 48 
 
 Newman, Ernest. A musical motley 36 
 
 Newman, J. H., cardinal. The idea of a university 33 
 
 Newton, A. E. The amenities of book collecting 21 
 
 A magnificent farce 21 
 
 Nicholson, Meredith. The man in the street 31 
 
 The provincial Amercian 31 
 
 Noguchi, Yone. The spirit of Japanese poetry 63 
 
 North, Christopher, pseud. See Wilson, John. 
 
 Overton, G. M. Why authors go wrong 39 
 
 Paget, Violet. The enchanted woods 23 
 
 Euphorion 12 
 
 Hortus vitae 16 
 
 The tower of the mirrors 29 
 
 Paine, H. E. Old people 20 
 
 Palmer, G. H. Formative types in English poetry 53 
 
 The teacher 33 
 
 Park, J. E. The bad results of good habits 39 
 
 Pater, Walter. Appreciations 48 
 
 Essays from the Guardian 48 
 
 Miscellaneous studies 19 
 
 Pearson, F. B. Reveries of a schoolmaster 33 
 
 Perry, Bliss. The amateur spirit 21 
 
 The American mind 31 
 
 Park-street papers 48 
 
 Study of poetry 53 
 
 Phelps, W. L. Essays on modern dramatists 48 
 
 Essays on modern novelists 48 
 
 Phillips, Duncan. The enchantment of art 35 
 
 Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T. On the art of reading 41 
 
 On the art of writing 39 
 
 Studies in literature 48 
 
 Raymond, E. T. All and sundry 19 
 
 Uncensored celebrities 19 
 
 Repplier, Agnes. Amercians and others 31 
 
 Compromises 10 
 
 Countercurrents 31 
 
 Essays in miniature 49 
 
 A happy half -century 49 
 
 Points of friction 11 
 
 Points of view 49 
 
 Varia 16 
 
AUTHOR INDEX 61 
 
 Page 
 
 Rhvs, Ernest, ed. A century of English essays 55 
 
 Rolland, Remain. Musicians of to-day 36 
 
 Roosevelt, Kermit. The happy hunting grounds 21 
 
 Roosevelt, Theodore. American ideals 31 
 
 Rosenfeld, Paul. Musical portraits 36 
 
 Ruskin, John. Modern painters 35 
 
 Sesame and lilies 49 
 
 Russell, G. W. The candle of vision 38 
 
 Russell, G. W. E. Prime ministers 19 
 
 Santayana, George. Character and opinion in the United States 32 
 
 Interpretations of poetry and religion 53 
 
 Scarborough, Dorothy. From a southern porch 30 
 
 Schaufl3er, R. H. The joyful heart 21 
 
 The musical amateur 36 
 
 Scott, Temple. The silver age 20 
 
 Scoville, Samuel," jr. Everyday adventures 22 
 
 Sedgwick, H. D. The new American type 32 
 
 Sharp, D. L. Beyond the pasture bars 23 
 
 The face of the fields 23 
 
 The hills of Hingham 17 
 
 Patrons of democracy 33 
 
 Sharp, William. Where the forest murmurs 24 
 
 Shelly, P. B. Defense of poetry. 53 
 
 Sherman, S. P. On contemporary literature 49 
 
 Sherwood, Margaret. Familiar ways 17 
 
 Shorter, Mrs. D. S. A dull day in London 11 
 
 Sidgwick, A. H. Walking essays 27 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip. An apologie for poetrie 63 
 
 Sill, E. R. Prose 11 
 
 Sloane, J. M. The smiling hill-top 17 
 
 Smith, Alexander. Dreamthorp 11 
 
 Smith, C. A. What can literature do for me? 41 
 
 Smith, L. P. Trivia 11 
 
 Sonneck, O. G. T. Suum cuique 37 
 
 Squire, J. C. Books in general 14 
 
 Life and letters 49 
 
 Steeves, H. R., ed. Representative essays in modern thought 55 
 
 Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a library 49 
 
 Studies of a biographer 49 
 
 Stevenson, R. L. Across the plains 38 
 
 FamiUar studies of men and books 49 
 
 Memories and portraits 19 
 
 Virginibus puerisque 27 
 
 Stewart, C. D. Essays on the spot 11 
 
 Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Victorians 19 
 
 Strunsky, Simeon. Belshazzar court 17 
 
 Sturgis, Mrs. E. M. O. Personal prejudices 11 
 
 Random reflections of a grandmother 20 
 
 Surette, T. W. Music and life 37 
 
 Symonds, J. A. In the key of blue 11 
 
 Symonds, Arthur. Cities and sea-coasts and islands 30 
 
 Tabor, Grace. Old-fashioned gardening 26 
 
 Tanner, W. M., ed. Essays and essay-writing 55 
 
 Thackeray, W. M. English humorists 50 
 
 Thaxter, Celia. An island garden 26 
 
 Thompson, Francis. Shelley 54 
 
 Thoreau, H. D. Excursions 27 
 
 Walden 24 
 
 Thorndike, A. T. Changing literature in Victorian England 50 
 
 Tolstoi, L. N., graf. What is art? 35 
 
 Tomlinson, H. M. London River 30 
 
 Old junk 30 
 
 Torrey, Bradford. Clerk of the woods 24 
 
 Field days in California 24 
 
 Footing it in Franconia 27 
 
 Friends on the shelf 50 
 
 Nature's invitation 22 
 
 Trent, W. P. Authority of criticism 50 
 
 Van Dyke, Henry. Fisherman's luck 22 
 
 Little Rivers 30 
 
 Van Dyke, Henry, and others. Counsel upon the reading of books 40 
 
 Van Dyke, J. C. What is art? 35 
 
 Van Vechten, Carl. Music and bad manners 36 
 
 Vaughan, C. E., ed. English literary criticism 56 
 
 Walker, Hugh. The English essay and essayists 56 
 
 Walton, Izaak. The compleat angler 22 
 
 Warner, C. D. My summer in a garden 26 
 
 Relation of literature to life 50 
 
 Warner, F. L. Endicott and 1 17 
 
62 AUTHOR INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Warner, F. L. and Warner, Gertrude. Life's minor collisions 17 
 
 Watts-Dunton Theodore. Poetry 54 
 
 Waugh, Arthur. Tradition and change 50 
 
 Whistler, J. M. The gentle art of making enemies 35 
 
 Wilson, John. Noctes ambrosianae 11 
 
 Wilson, Woodrow. Mere literature 50 
 
 When a man comes to himself 39 
 
 Wood, S. T. Rambles of a Canadian naturalist 24 
 
 Woodberry, G. E. Great writers 50 
 
 Studies of a litterateur 50 
 
 Woodbridge, Elizabeth. See Morris, Mrs. E. W. 
 
 Woodbury, 0. H. Painting and the personal equation 36 
 
 Yeats, W. B. The cutting of an agate 51 
 
 Essays, Irish and American 51 
 
 Yeomans, Edward. Shackled youth 34 
 
TITLE INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Accepting the universe. Burroughs 37 
 
 Across the plains. Stevenson 38 
 
 Adventures among birds. Hudson 24 
 
 Adventures among books. Lang 46 
 
 Adventures and enthusiasms. Lucas 10 
 
 Alarms and discursions. Chesterton 8 
 
 The Alhambra. Irving 28 
 
 All and sundry. Raymond 19 
 
 All manner of folk. Jackson 19 
 
 The amateur garden. Cable 25 
 
 The amateur spirit. Perry 21 
 
 The amenities of book collecting. Newton 21 
 
 American contributions to civilization. Eliot 31 
 
 American ideals. Roosevelt 31 
 
 The American mind. Perry 31 
 
 The American of the future. Matthew.s 31 
 
 American prose. Bronson, ed 55 
 
 Americans and others. Repplier 31 
 
 Among friends. Crothers 13 
 
 Among my books. Lowell 46 
 
 And even now. Beerbohm 14 
 
 Apologia diffidentis. Leith 12 
 
 An apologie for poetrie. Sidney 53 
 
 Appreciations. Pater 48 
 
 Appreciations and depreciations. Boyd 42 
 
 Appreciations of poetry. Hearn 52 
 
 Art and common sense. Cortissoz 34 
 
 Art and I. Hind 34 
 
 The art of letters. Lynd 46 
 
 Artist and public. Cox 34 
 
 Arts and crafts essays. Arts and crafts exhibition society, London 34 
 
 Atlantic classics . •' 54 
 
 Authority of criticism. Trent 50 
 
 Authors and I. Hind 45 
 
 The bad results of good habits. Park 39 
 
 Bedouins. Huneker 15 
 
 Belshazzar court. Strunsky 17 
 
 Beyond the pasture bars. Sharp 23 
 
 Biographia literaria. Coleridge 42 
 
 Bird ways. Miller 24 
 
 The book of courage. Dawson 38 
 
 A book of gardens. Hyatt, comp 26 
 
 Books and their writers. Mais 47 
 
 Books and things. Littell 15 
 
 Books, culture and character. Lamed 40 
 
 Books in general. Squire 14 
 
 Books on the table. Gosse 44 
 
 Broome Street straws. Holliday 13 
 
 By oak and thorn. Brown 28 
 
 The candle of vision. Russell 38 
 
 Carlyle's laugh. Higginson 45 
 
 Carven from the laurel tree. Maynard 12 
 
 A century of English essays. Rhys, ed 55 
 
 Changing literature in Victorian England. Thorndike 50 
 
 Character and opinion in the United States. Santayana 32 
 
 Chimney pot papers. Brooks 7 
 
 Choice of books. Harrison 40 
 
 Cicero in Maine. Dunn 33 
 
 The circus. Kilmer 9 
 
 Cities and sea-coasts and islands. Symons 30 
 
 The classic point of view. Cox 34 
 
 Clerk of the woods. Torrey 24 
 
 Cloud and sUver. Lucas 10 
 
 Collector's luck. Carrick 20 
 
 College sons and college fathers. Canby 32 
 
 Comfort found in good old books. Fitch 43 
 
 The comforts of home. Bcrgengren 13 
 
 The compleat angler. Walton 22 
 
 Compromises. Repplier 10 
 
 The Connecticut wits. Beers 41 
 
 Constrained attitudes. Colby 39 
 
 Contemporary composers. Mason 36 
 
 Counsel upon the reading of books. Van Dyke and others 40 
 
 Convention and revolt in poetry. Lowes 63 
 
 The convictions of a grandfather. Grant 20 
 
 63 
 
64 TITLE INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Counter currents. Repplier 31 
 
 The cream of curiosity. Hine 21 
 
 Critical and historical essays. Macaulay 47 
 
 The cutting of an agate. Yeats 51 
 
 The dame school of experience. Crothers 32 
 
 Defense of poetry. Shelley 53 
 
 Democracy. Lowell 31 
 
 Domus doloris. Leith 12 
 
 Dreamthorp. Smith 11 
 
 A dull day in London. Shorter 11 
 
 The edge of the woods. Humphrey 9 
 
 Education and the larger life. Henderson 33 
 
 Eighteenth century vignettes. Dobson 43 
 
 Eminent Victorians. Strachey 19 
 
 The enchanted fl^oo^s. Paget 23 
 
 The enchantment of art. Phillips 35 
 
 Endicott and I. Warner 17 
 
 The English essay and essayists. Walker 56 
 
 English essayists. Davis 56 
 
 EngUsh essays. Bronson, ed 55 
 
 The English familiar essay. Bryan, ed 55 
 
 English humorists. Thackeray 60 
 
 English literary criticism. Vaughan, ed 56 
 
 English mail-coach. DeQuincey 8 
 
 Enjoyment of poetry. Eastman 52 
 
 Essays. Bacon 7 
 
 Essays. Emerson 38 
 
 Essays. Montaigne 10 
 
 Essays and essay-writing. Tanner, ed. . . . 55 
 
 Essays and lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge 42 
 
 Essays — classical. Myers 48 
 
 Essays from the Guardian. Pater 48 
 
 Essays in criticism. Arnold 41 
 
 Essays in miniature. Repplier 49 
 
 Essays, Irbh and American. Yeats 51 
 
 Essays — modern. Myers 48 
 
 Essays of an ex-librarian. Garnett 44 
 
 Essays of Elia. Lamb 9 
 
 Essays on English. Matthews 39 
 
 Essays on modern dramatists. Phelps 48 
 
 Essays on modern novelists. Phelps 48 
 
 Essays on the spot. Stewart 11 
 
 Estimates in art. Mather 35 
 
 Euphorion. Paget 12 
 
 Everyday adventures. Scoville 22 
 
 Everyday Americans. Canby 30 
 
 The evolution of an intellectual. Murry 20 
 
 Excursions. Thoreau 27 
 
 Exotics and retrospectives. Hearn 28 
 
 The face of the fields. Sharp 23 
 
 Faces and places. Colvin 18 
 
 Familiar Spanish travels. Howells 29 
 
 Familiar studies of men and books. Stevenson 49 
 
 Familiar ways. Sherwood 17 
 
 Field and hedgerow. Jeflferies 29 
 
 Field days in California. Torrey 24 
 
 Fireside and sunshine. Lucas 13 
 
 First and last. Belloc 7 
 
 Fisherman's luck. Van Dyke 22 
 
 Footing it in Franconia. Torrey 27 
 
 Formative types in English poetry. Palmer 53 
 
 The friendly road. Baker 26 
 
 Friends on the shelf. Torrey 50 
 
 From a college window. Benson 11 
 
 From a southern porch. Scarborough 30 
 
 The function of the poet. Lowell 52 
 
 Gallant little Wales. Marks 29 
 
 A garden of peace. Moore 26 
 
 Garden of simples. Flint 25 
 
 The gentle art of making enemies. Whistler 35 
 
 The gentle reader. Crothers 40 
 
 Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan. Hearn 28 
 
 Gold, frankincense and myrrh. Cram 37 
 
 Great possessions. Baker 22 
 
 Great writers. Woodberry 60 
 
 Green trails and upland pastures. Eaton 23 
 
 A happy half-century. Repplier 49 
 
 The nappy hunting grounds. Roosevelt 21 
 
 Harbours of memory. McFee 29 
 
 Hearts of controversy. Meynell 47 
 
TITLE INDEX 65 
 
 Page 
 
 Heretics. Chesterton 42 
 
 Hills and the sea. Belloc 26 
 
 The hills of Hingham. Sharp 17 
 
 Hints to pilgrims. Brooks 8 
 
 History of a literary radical. Bourne 14 
 
 Holy earth. Bailey 22 
 
 Hopes and fears for art. Morris 35 
 
 Hortus vitae. Paget 16 
 
 Hours in a library. Stephen 49 
 
 How to live on twenty-four hours a day. Bennett 38 
 
 How to read. Kerfoot " 40 
 
 Humanly speaking. Crothers 28 
 
 The humour of Homer. Butler 8 
 
 The idea of a university. Newman 33 
 
 Idols of education. Gayley 33 
 
 If I may. Milne 14 
 
 In a green shade. Hewlett 9 
 
 In the key of blue. Symonds 11 
 
 In the name of the Bodleian. Birrell 41 
 
 The inn of tranquillity. Galsworthy 12 
 
 The intelligence of women. George 16 
 
 Interpretations of literature. Hearn 45 
 
 Interpretations of poetry and religion. Santayana 53 
 
 An island garden. Thaxter 26 
 
 Ivory, apes and peacocks. Huneker 15 
 
 Jonathan papers. Morris 23 
 
 Joiu-nalism versus art. Eastman 39 
 
 Journeys to Bagdad. Brooks 27 
 
 The joyful heart. Schaufiier 21 
 
 The joys of being a woman. Kirkland 16 
 
 The kinds of poetry. Erskine 52 
 
 Later essays. Dobson 18 
 
 Lay sermons. Huxley 38 
 
 Leaf and tendril. Burroughs 22 
 
 The leaves of the tree. Benson 18 
 
 Lectures on the English comic writers. Hazlitt 44 
 
 Lectures on the English poets. Hazlitt 44 
 
 Leigh Hunt as poet and essayist. Hunt 45 
 
 Letters to dead authors. Lang 46 
 
 Letters to X. Massingham 47 
 
 Levia pondera. Ayscough 7 
 
 Life and letters. Squire 49 
 
 Life and literature. Hearn 45 
 
 Life and love of the insect. Fabre 23 
 
 Life's minor collisions. Warner 17 
 
 The lighter side of school life. Beith 32 
 
 Literary chapters. George 44 
 
 Literary recreations. Cook 43 
 
 Literary studies. Bagehot 41 
 
 Literature with a large L. Jenkins 9 
 
 Little rivers. Van Dyke 30 
 
 London River. Tomlinson 30 
 
 The lost art of reading. Lee 40 
 
 A lover of the chair. Gass 12 
 
 The lure of the map. James • 29 
 
 A magnificent farce. Newton 21 
 
 The man in the street. Nicholson 31 
 
 Memories and milestones. Chapman 18 
 
 Memories and portraits. Stevenson 19 
 
 Men and books and cities. Holliday 31 
 
 Men, women and books. Hunt 45 
 
 Mere literature. Wilson 50 
 
 Mince pie. Morley 14 
 
 The ministry of art. Cram 34 
 
 Miscellaneous studies. Pater 19 
 
 Modern essays. Morley, ed 55 
 
 Modern essays. Berdan, ed 54 
 
 Modern painters. Ruskin 35 
 
 The moderns. Freeman 43 
 
 Modes and morals. Gerould 14 
 
 The moral obligation to be intelligent. Erskine 38 
 
 More literary recreations. Cook 43 
 
 Mountain memories. Conway 21 
 
 Music and bad manners. Van Veehten 37 
 
 Music and life. Surette 37 
 
 The musical amateur. Schauffler 37 
 
 A musical motley. Newman 36 
 
 Musical portraits. Rosenfeld 36 
 
 Musicians of today. RoUand 36 
 
66 TITLE INDEX 
 
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 My literary passions. Howells 45 
 
 My summer in a garden. Warner 26 
 
 A naturalist of souls. Bradford 42 
 
 Nature in music. Oilman 36 
 
 Nature's invitation. Torrey 22 
 
 The new American type. Sedgwick 32 
 
 The new Laokoon. Babbitt 34 
 
 Noctes anibrosianae. Wilson 11 
 
 Not that it matters. Milne 10 
 
 Notes on life and letters. Conrad 8 
 
 Notes on novelists. James 46 
 
 Nowadays. Dunsany 52 
 
 Obiter dicta. Birrell 41 
 
 Old and new masters. Lynd 47 
 
 Old-fashioned gardening. Tabor 26 
 
 Old j unk. Tomhnson 30 
 
 Old Kensington palace. Dobson 43 
 
 Old people. Paine 20 
 
 Old saws and modern instances. Courtney 32 
 
 Old time gardens. Earle 25 
 
 On anything. Belloc 7 
 
 On becoming an American. Bridges 30 
 
 On contemporary literature. Sherman 49 
 
 On everything. Belloc 7 
 
 On heroes, hero worship and the heroic in history. Carlyle 18 
 
 On nothing. Belloc 7 
 
 On the art of reading. Quiller-Couch 41 
 
 On the art of writing. Quilier-Couch 29 
 
 The open air. Jefferies 33 
 
 Optimism. Keller 39 
 
 Orthodoxy. Chesterton 42 
 
 Our sentimental garden. Castle 25 
 
 Our women. Bennett 16 
 
 Overtones. Huneker 36 
 
 The Oxford book of American essays. Matthews, ed 55 
 
 The Oxford stamp. Aydelotte 32 
 
 Pagan papers. Grahame 27 
 
 Painting and the personal equation. Woodbury 36 
 
 The pardoner's wallet. Crothers 8 
 
 Park-street papers. Perry 48 
 
 Patrons of democracy. Sharp 33 
 
 Pebbles on the shore. Gardiner 13 
 
 Percolator papers. Hendrick 15 
 
 The perfect gentleman. Bergengren 15 
 
 Personal prej udices. Sturgis 11 
 
 Pipefuls. Morley 16 
 
 Plum pudding . Morley 16 
 
 Poetry and the renascence of wonder. Watts-Dunton 54 
 
 Points of friction. Repplier 11 
 
 Points of view. Repplier 49 
 
 Ponkapog papers. Aldrich 7 
 
 Portrait of a scholar. Chapman 42 
 
 Portraits and sketches. Gosse 18 
 
 Potpourri from a Surrey garden. Earle 25 
 
 Prejudices. Flandrau 8 
 
 Prejudices. Mencken 15 
 
 Prime ministers and some others. Russell 19 
 
 Private papers of Henry Ryeeroft. Gissing 12 
 
 Promenades of an impressionist. Huneker 35 
 
 Prose. Sill 11 
 
 Prose papers. Drinkwater 51 
 
 The provincial American. Nicholson 31 
 
 The quest of the ballad. Mackenzie 21 
 
 A quiet corner in a library. Hudson 45 
 
 Rambles of a Canadian naturalist. Wood 24 
 
 Random reflections of a grandmother. Sturgis 20 
 
 The reading public. Jenkins 40 
 
 Realism. McDowall 35 
 
 Recreation. Grey 21 
 
 The red cow and her friends. McArthur 17 
 
 Relation of literature to life. Warner 50 
 
 Rcligio niedici. Browne 12 
 
 Representative essays in modern thought. Steeves, ed 55 
 
 Reputations. Goldring 44 
 
 Reveries of a schoolmaster. Pearson 33 
 
 Reviews and critical papers. Johnson 46 
 
 Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination. De La Mare 51 
 
 The sacred wood. Eliot 39 
 
 Sartor resartus. Carlyle 37 
 
 Scepticisms. Aiken 51 
 
 The school and society. Dewey 32 
 
TITLE INDEX 67 
 
 Page 
 
 Science and education. Huxley 33 
 
 Seeing things at night. Broun 8 
 
 Selections from the best English essays. Cody, comp 55 
 
 Sesame and lilies. Ruskin 49 
 
 Set down in malice. Kenyon 19 
 
 The seven ages of man. Bergengren 19 
 
 Shackled youth. Ycomans 34 
 
 Shelburne essays. More 47 
 
 Shelley. Thompson 54 
 
 Signs and seasons. Burroughs 22 
 
 The silent isle. Benson 7 
 
 The silver age. Scott 20 
 
 Sir Roger de Coverley. Addison 18 
 
 Sirenica. Leith 10 
 
 Six French poets. Lowell 52 
 
 Sketch-book. Irving 28 
 
 The smiling hill-top. Sloane 17 
 
 Some diversions of a man of letters. Gosse 44 
 
 Some modern novelists. Follett 43 
 
 Southward ho! Jackson 27 
 
 Spare hours. Brown 18 
 
 The spirit of Japanese poetry. Noguchi 53 
 
 The story of my heart. JefTcries 23 
 
 Studies in literature. Morley 47 
 
 Studies in literature. Quiller-Couch 48 
 
 Studies of a biographer. Stephen 49 
 
 Studies of a litterateur. Woodberry 50 
 
 Study of poetry. Perry 53 
 
 Supers and supermen. Guedalla 14 
 
 Suum cuique. Sonncck 37 
 
 Table talk. Hazlitt 9 
 
 Talks in a library. Hutton 46 
 
 Talks to teachers on psychology. James 33 
 
 The teacher. Palmer 33 
 
 Tendencies in modern poetry. Lowell 52 
 
 There's pippins and cheese to come. Brooks 13 
 
 Things that have interested me. Bennett 7 
 
 This and that and the other. Bclioe 7 
 
 This world of ours. Cm-le 28 
 
 Thoughts in middle life. Locker-Lampson 20 
 
 Three French moralists. Gosse 44 
 
 The tower of the mirrors. Paget 29 
 
 Tradition and change. Wa'.igh 50 
 
 A traveler in little things. Hudson 29 
 
 Travels in Philadelphia. Morley 29 
 
 The treasure of the humble. Maeterlinck 12 
 
 Trivia. Smith . . . 11 
 
 Turns about town. HoUiday !.!!!!! 18 
 
 Twentieth century WTiters. Duclaux 43 
 
 Twixt eagle and dove. Lucas 10 
 
 Uncensored celebrities. Raymond '. 19 
 
 Under the maples. Burroughs .[[ 22 
 
 The uses of diversity. Chesterton 8 
 
 Varia. Repplier 16 
 
 Variations. Huneker 9 
 
 Varied types. Chesterton ' .' ." 42 
 
 Ventures in thought. Money-Coutts !.!!!!!!. 10 
 
 Victorian age in literature. Chesterton 42 
 
 The view vertical. Kirkland 9 
 
 Virginibus puerisque. Stevenson !!!!!!!.'! 27 
 
 The voice of the scholar. Jordan !.!'.!!!!!!!'.! 33 
 
 Wake-robin. Burroughs !.!!!!!!!!!!!!! 24 
 
 Walden. Thoreau , _ 24 
 
 Walking essays. Sidgwick 27 
 
 Walking stick papers. Holliday 16 
 
 Well, why not? Masson ..........'....'. 10 
 
 What can literature do for me? Smith 41 
 
 What is art? Tolstoi '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.[['.'.'.'.'.'.['.'.'. 35 
 
 What is art? Van Dyke _ _ 35 
 
 What men live by. Cabot 38 
 
 When a man comes to himself. Wilson 39 
 
 When a man commutes. Cohen ] 16 
 
 Where the forest murmurs. Sharp 24 
 
 Why authors go wrong. Overton 39 
 
 Windfalls. Gardiner 8 
 
 Wisdom and destiny. Maeterlinck ......................'. 12 
 
 The wishing cap papers. Hunt 9 
 
 Wit and humor. Hunt 45 
 
 The world's best e.ssays. Brewer, ed . . . 54 
 
 Youth and life. Bourne 20 
 
 Youth and the new world. Boas, ed 20 
 
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