Essays of today <1926-1927>
By: selected by Odell Shepard and Robert Hillyer.
Contributors: Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961, joint ed.
Publisher: The Century co.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: American essays.
Table of contents: title: The American scene and character, by J. C. Powys.; title: Speech, common and preferred, by T. L. Brannon.; title: The decline of conversation, by A. J. Nock.; title: Gaiety for the solemn, by I. Edman.; title: Childish Americans, by J. Collins.; title: Short skirts. by H. A. S. Kennedy.; title: The dogma of "business first", by S. Chase.; title: A strange New England, by D. Yorke.; title: Free auto camp ground, by O. Lewis.; title: Changing fashions in history, by C. W. Alvord.; title: Comedy and the American spirit, by L. Mitchell.; title: The great American art, by T. Craven.; title: Travelling intelligently in America, by H. S. Canby.; title: A house in the country, by J. Erskine.; title: Is man a machine? by W. Durant.; title: Classics on the farm, by W. Pierce,; title: The art of the bullfight, by W. Frank,; title: To youngsters of easy means, by A. J. Nock.; title: The short ballot in literature, by H. M. Robinson.; title: Education and business, by R. Demos.; title: Concerning endowments, by H. Henderson.; title: The mating season of co-education, by F. R. Arnold.; title: Football, by A. E. Dashiell.; title: As the professor sees the game, by an assistant professor.; title: Eliot at Harvard: the middle years, by R. M. L.; title: She lived to give pain, by R. F. Dibble.; title: James Whitcomb Riley, by E. L. Masters.; title: Sheridan-whom the gods loved, by J. B. Atkinson,; title: Shakespeare's queen, by T. Brooks.