Contents
The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
The Whistle
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
Consolation For The Old Bachelor
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791).
John Bull
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
The Mutability Of Literature
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
Kean's Acting
Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879).
Gifts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
Uses Of Great Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
Buds And Bird-voices
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
The Philosophy Of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Bread And The Newspaper
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).
Walking
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
On A Certain Condescension In Foreigners
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
Preface To "Leaves Of Grass"
Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Americanism In Literature
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911).
Thackeray In America
George William Curtis (1824-1892).
Our March To Washington
Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861).
Calvin (A Study Of Character)
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900).
Five American Contributions To Civilization
Charles William Eliot (1834- ).
I Talk Of Dreams
William Dean Howells (1837- ).
An Idyl Of The Honey-bee
John Burroughs (1837- ).
Cut-off Copples's
Clarence King (1842-1901).
The Théâtre Français
Henry James (1843- ).
Theocritus On Cape Cod
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846- ).
Colonialism In The United States
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- ).
New York After Paris
William Crary Brownell (1851- ).
The Tyranny Of Things
Edward Sandford Martin (1856- ).
Free Trade Vs. Protection In Literature
Samuel Mcchord Crothers (1857- ).
Dante And The Bowery
Theodore Roosevelt (1858- ).
The Revolt Of The Unfit
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862- ).
On Translating The Odes Of Horace
William Peterfield Trent (1862- ).
