Selected Readings III

THE OXFORD BOOK OFAMERICAN ESSAYS

CHOSEN BY

BRANDER MATTHEWS

Professor in Columbia University
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters




NEW YORK
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMERICAN BRANCH: 35 West 32nd Street
LONDON, TORONTO, MELBOURNE, AND BOMBAY
HUMPHREY MILFORD

1914

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED



Copyright, 1914
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMERICAN BRANCH
  

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Introduction	v
The Ephemera: an Emblem of Human Life	1
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
The Whistle	4
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout	7
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
Consolation for the Old Bachelor	15
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791).
John Bull	21
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
The Mutability of Literature	34
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
Kean’s Acting	47
Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879).
Gifts	62
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
Uses of Great Men	67
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
Buds and Bird-voices	88
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
The Philosophy of Composition	99
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Bread and the Newspaper	114
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).
Walking	128
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners	166
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
Preface To "Leaves of Grass"	194
Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Americanism in Literature	213
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911).
Thackeray in America	229
George William Curtis (1824-1892).
Our March To Washington	241
Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861).
Calvin (A Study of Character)	268
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900).
Five American Contributions To Civilization	280
Charles William Eliot (1834-    ).
I Talk of Dreams	308
William Dean Howells (1837-    ).
An Idyl of the Honey-bee	331
John Burroughs (1837-    ).
Cut-off Copples’s	351
Clarence King (1842-1901).
The Théâtre Français	368
Henry James (1843-    ).
Theocritus on Cape Cod	394
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-    ).
Colonialism in the United States	410
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-    ).
New York After Paris	440
William Crary Brownell (1851-    ).
The Tyranny of Things	467
Edward Sandford Martin (1856-    ).
Free Trade Vs. Protection in Literature	475
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-    ).
Dante and the Bowery	480
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-    ).
The Revolt of the Unfit	489
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-    ).
On Translating the Odes of Horace	497
William Peterfield Trent (1862-    ).