Title: Literature and life : studies /
Authors: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
Publisher: Harper,
Year: 1911
Contents: The man of letters as a man of business. -- Worries of a winter walk. -- Confessions of a summer colonist. -- The editor's relations with the young contributor. -- Summer isles of Eden. -- Wild flowers of the asphalt. -- Last days in a Dutch hotel. -- Some anomalies of the short story. -- A circus in the suburbs. -- A she Hamlet. -- Spanish prisoners of war. -- The midnight platoon. -- The beach at Rockaway. -- American literary centres. -- Sawdust in the arena. -- At a dime museum. -- American literature in exile. -- The horse show. -- The problem of the summer. -- Esthetic New York fifty-odd years ago. -- From New York into New England. -- The standard household-effect company. -- Staccato notes of a vanished summer. -- The art of the adsmith. -- The psychology of plagiarism. -- Puritanism in American fiction. -- The what and the how in art. -- Politics of American authors. -- Storage. -- "Floating down the river on the O-hi-o."