모던 에세이.The Book of Modern Essays, by Various.
CONTENTS
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PREFACE iii
AMERICAN LITERATURE John Macy 3
MARY WHITE William Allen White 22
NIAGARA FALLS Rupert Brooke 30
THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE Don Marquis 39
"THE MAN O' WAR'S 'ER 'USBAND" David W. Bone 49
THE MARKET William McFee 60
HOLY IRELAND Joyce Kilmer 67
A FAMILIAR PREFACE Joseph Conrad 81
ON DRAWING A. P. Herbert 94
O. HENRY O. W. Firkins 100
THE MOWING OF A FIELD Hilaire Belloc 113
THE STUDENT LIFE William Osler 128
THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA Stephen Leacock 145
AMERICA AND THE ENGLISH TRADITION
Harry Morgan Ayres 153
THE RUSSIAN QUARTER Thomas Burke 160
A WORD FOR AUTUMN A. A. Milne 173
"A CLERGYMAN" Max Beerbohm 177
SAMUEL BUTLER Stuart P. Sherman 187
BED-BOOKS AND NIGHT-LIGHTS H. M. Tomlinson 210
THE PRECEPT OF PEACE Louise Imogen Guiney 219
ON LYING AWAKE AT NIGHT Stewart Edward White 229
A WOODLAND VALENTINE Marian Storm 236
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY George Santayana 241
NOCTURNE Simeon Strunsky 246
BEER AND CIDER George Saintsbury 253
A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP Bertrand Russell 263
SOME HISTORIANS Philip Guedalla 278
WINTER MIST Robert Palfrey Utter 291
TRIVIA Logan Pearsall Smith 297
BEYOND LIFE James Branch Cabell 304
THE FISH REPORTER Robert Cortes Holliday 316
SOME NONSENSE ABOUT A DOG Harry Esty Dounce 331
THE FIFTY-FIRST DRAGON Heywood Broun 338