Modern essays
By: selected and ed. by John Milton Berdan ... John Richie Schultz ... and Hewette Elwell Joyce ...
Contributors: Schultz, John Richie, 1884-1947, joint ed.; Joyce, Hewette Elwell, joint ed.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: English essays; American essays
Notes: --The mildness of the yellow press, by G. K. Chesterton.--What is education? by C. M. Flandrau.--Why a classic is a classic, by A. Bennett.--Homer and the study of Greek, by A. Lang.--Homer and humbug, an academic discussion, by S. Leacock.--On the case of a certain man who is never thought of, by W. G. Sumner.--The training of intellect, by W. Wilson.--The responsibility of authors, by Sir O. Lodge.--Filial relations, by J. Addams.--The irony of nature, by R. Burton.--0n seeing ten bad plays, by F. M. Colby.--A stepdaughter of the prairie, by Margaret Lynn.--Yosemite, by A. Colton.--The Bowery and Bohemia, by H. C. Bunner.--Evolution, by J. Galsworthy.--Biographical index.
Table of contents: title: "Ten o'clock," by J. M. Whistler.; title: Tact, by Sir J. Lubbock, lord Avebury.; title: Book-buying, by A. Birrell.; title: Alexander Hamilton, by F. Harrsion.; title: Salad, by C. S. Baldwin.; title: Words that laugh and cry, by C. A. Dana.; title: National characteristics as moulding public opinion, by J. Bryce.; title: American manners, by Wu Tingfang.; title: Franklin, by H. C. Lodge.; title: The serious Pepys, by W. C. Abbott.; title: What the ten-year sergeant of police tells, by H. H. Curran.; title: The powers of the President, by W. H. Taft.; title: John Greenleaf Whittier, by G. E. Woodberry.; title: Thackeray's centenary, by H. A. Beers.; title: Tennyson, by P. E. More.; title: Realism Canby. Edward Gibbon, by J. F. Rhodes.