Title: University readings,
Authors: Thorpe, Clarence De Witt, 1887-; Walter, Erich Albert,; Walter, Erich Albert,
Publisher: Harper & brothers,
Year: 1931
Subjects: English prose literature.; American prose literature.
Contents: A mountain observatory / Alfred Noyes -- Personal experience and review; New York / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Visit to America / John Morley -- Leaving church; Death-bed manners / George Santayana -- Old China / Charles Lamb -- A coquette's heart / Joseph Addison -- I plan a vacation / Charles S. Brooks -- Books and reading / Walter de la Mare -- The battle of the bird / E.V. Lucas -- Mad money / Stark Young -- Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt -- The advent of the "talkies" / from The Manchester Guardian -- The literary society / William Allen White -- Materialism and idealism in America / George Santayana -- Unrepresentative errors / Alfred Noyes -- Parliament / John Morley -- Literature and science / Matthew Arnold -- Tertia: An adventure in boat-building / Edward Parmelee Morris -- Expressing one's individuality / Arnold Bennett -- Is life worth living? / William James -- The golden mean / Aristotle -- What is a classic? / Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -- Seeing life / Arnold Bennett -- The nigger of the narcissus: Preface / Joseph Conrad -- I am here to-day: Charlie Chaplin / Gilbert Seldes -- The carpentier fight [Bennet vs. Shaw] / Francis Hackert -- On falling in hate; On falling in love / Stuart P. Sherman -- LIterature as revelation / Gilbert Murray -- The hero as poet: Shakespeare / Thomas Carlyle -- Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- La Gioconda / Walter Pater -- Music and the plain man / George Sampson -- What is beauty? / H.S. Canby -- The last question of all / C.E. Montague