Modern essays
By: selected and ed. by John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, and Hewette Elwell Joyce.
Contributors: Schultz, John Richie, 1884-1947.; Joyce, Hewette Elwell.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: English essays; American essays
Table of contents: title: "Ten o'clock" -- James McNeill Whistler; title: Tact -- John Lubbock; title: Book-buying -- Augustine Birrell; title: Alexander Hamilton -- Frederic Harrsion; title: Salad -- Charles Sears Baldwin; title: Words that laugh and cry -- Charles Anderson Dana; title: National characteristics as moulding public opinion -- James Bryce; title: American manners -- Wu Tingfang; title: Franklin -- Henry Cabot Lodge -- The; title: serious Pepys -- Wilbur Cortez Abbott; title: What the ten-year sergeant of police tells -- Henry Hastings Curran -- The; title: powers of the President -- William Howard Taft; title: John Greenleaf Whittier -- George Edward Woodberry; title: Thackeray's centenary -- Henry Augustine Beers; title: Tennyson -- Paul Elmer More; title: Realism and reality in fiction -- William Lyon Phelps; title: Teaching English-- Henry Seidel Canby -- Edward Gibbon /-- James Ford Rhodes; title: The; title: mildness of the yellow press -- Gilber Keith Chesterton; title: What is education? -- Charles Macomb Flandrau; title: Why a classic is a classic -- Arnold Bennett; title: Homer and the study of Greek -- Andrew Lang; title: Homer and humbug, an academic discussion -- Stephen Leacock; title: On the case of a certain man who is never thought of; title: by William Graham Sumner -- -- The; title: training of intellect -- Woodrow Wilson -- The; title: responsibility of authors -- by Oliver Lodge; title: Filial relations -- Jane Addams -- The; title: irony of nature -- Richard Burton; title: 0n seeing ten bad plays -- Frank Moore Colby -- A; title: stepdaughter of the prairie -- Margaret Lynn; title: Yosemite -- Arthur Colton -- The; title: Bowery and Bohemia -- Henry Cuyler Bunner; title: Evolution-- John Galsworthy -- Biographical index.