The new world and the new book, an address, delivered before the Nineteenth century club of New York city, Jan. 15, 1891
By: With kindred essays, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Publisher: Lee and Shephard
Published: 1892
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Table of contents: title: The new world and the new book.- An American temperament.- The shadow of Europe.- On taking ourselves seriously.- A cosmopolitan standard.- A contemporaneous posterity.- On literary tonica.- The fear of the dead level.- Do we need a literary centre?- The equation of fame.- Concerning high-water marks.- Personal ideals.- On the need of a background.- Unnecessary apologies.- The perils of American humor.- On the proposed abolition of the plot.- American translators.- The Westminster abbey of a book catalogue.- Town and gown.- "Make thy option which of two."- The decline of the sentimental.- Concerning giants.- Weapons of precision.- The test of the dime saved.- The trick of self-depreciation.- The literary pendulum.- The evolution of an American.- A world-literature.