Essays old and new
By: edited by Robert U. Jameson
Contributors: Chamberlain, Essie, editor
Edition: 3d ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780153470509
Subjects: English essays; American essays
Description: A chronological arrangement of essays, generally with two or more essays with the same theme or with similar points of view.
Notes: Earlier editions edited by E. Chamberlain.

"Suggestions for further reading": p. 426-32.

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Table of contents: title: Of Sleeping / Michel De Montaigne; title: Of Studies ; Of Friendship / Francis Bacon; title: Sir Roger de Coverley in Church / Joseph Addison; title: A Dissertation on Roast Pig / Charles Lamb; title: The Country Church / Washington Irving; title: Self-Reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Where I Lived and What I Lived For / Henry David Thoreau; title: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses / Mark Twain; title: The Death of an Old Dog / William Henry Hudson; title: Aes Triplex ; On Falling in Love / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A Kitten / Agnes Repplier; title: Holiday / John Galsworthy; title: Mary White / William Allen White; title: A, B, and C-The Human Element in Mathematics / Stephen Leacock; title: I Entertain an Agent Unawares / David Grayson; title: On Lying in Bed / Gilbert Keith Chesterton; title: Harrow / Winston Churchill; title: The Noblest Instrument / Clarence Day; title: The Jungle Sluggard / William Beebe; title: A Lincoln Preface / Carl Sandburg; title: Tolerance ; Julius Caesar / E.M. Forster; title: Three Days to See / Helen Keller; title: The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth / Robert Benchley; title: The Fifty-First Dragon / Heywood Broun; title: The Rivalry of Nations / Walter Lippmann; title: Grandeurs and Miseries of Old Age / Elmer Davis; title: On Unanswering Letters / Christopher Morley; title: A Garland of Ibids for Van Wyck Brooks / Frank Sullivan; title: The Night the Bed Fell ; The Macbeth Murder Mystery / James Thurber; title: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech / William Faulkner; title: Eastern White Oak / Donald Culross Peattie; title: Walden ; Getting Ready for a Cow / E.B. White; title: The Long Snowfall / Rachel Carson; title: On Discovering the United States / Alistair Cooke; title: Tenants of the House / Josephine Johnson; title: The First Citizens of the Atomic Age / Norman Cousins.