Book of modern essays
By: compiled and edited by John M. Avent
Series: The Academy classics; Harvard reading textbooks preservation microfilm project -- 02971
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Readers; Essays; American essays; English essays
Other titles: Modern essays.
Notes: "A brief list of contemporary essays": pages 243-244.
Table of contents: title: The social value of the college-bred, by W. James.; title: From "Adventures and enthusiasms", by E.V. Lucas.; title: Poetry for the unpoetical, by H.S. Canby.; title: From "The uses of diversity", by G.K. Chesterton.; title: Money, by Agnes Repplier.; title: A holiday in a vacation, by H. van Dyke.; title: Behold, this dreamer cometh, by A.C. Benson.; title: Bridges, by W.P. Eaton.; title: An old American towpath, by R. Le Gallienne.; title: Every man's natural desire to be somebody else, by S.M. Crothers.; title: Some reflections on the loss of the Titanic, by J. Conrad.; title: Abraham Lincoln, by W. Wilson.; title: A new world, by H. van Loon.