Modern Essays

by William Allen White, H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson, Harry Morgan Ayres, Robert Cortes Holliday, Bertrand Russell, Heywood Broun, A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert, William McFee, Philip Guedalla, Stewart Edward White, Don Marquis, Harry Esty Dounce, George Saintsbury, George Santayana, Simeon Strunsky, A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne, Louise Imogen Guiney, David W. (David William) Bone, Oscar W. Firkins, Joyce Kilmer, Logan Pearsall Smith, James Branch Cabell, Thomas Burke, John Albert Macy, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Marian Storm, Stephen Leacock, Rupert Brooke, Max, Sir Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Christopher Morley, Robert Palfrey Utter, William Osler, Joseph Conrad

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Book from Project Gutenberg: Modern Essays American literature / John Macy -- Mary White / William Allen White -- Niagara Falls / Rupert Brooke -- The almost perfect state / Don Marquis -- "The man o' war's 'er 'usband" / David W. Bone -- The market / William McFee -- Holy Ireland / Joyce Kilmer -- A familiar preface / Joseph Conrad -- On drawing / A.P. Herbert -- O. Henry / O.W. Firkins -- The mowing of a field / Hilaire Belloc -- The student life / William Osler -- The decline of drama / Stephen Leacock -- America and the English tradition / Harry Morgan Ayres -- The Russian quarter / Thomas Burke -- A word for autumn / A.A. Milne -- "A clergyman" / Max Beerbohm -- Samuel Butler / Stuart P. Sherman -- Bed-books and night-lights / H.M. Tomlinson -- The precept of peace / Louise Imogen Guiney -- On lying awake at night / Stewart Edward White -- A woodland Valentine / Marian Storm -- The elements of poetry / George Santayana -- Nocturne / Simeon Strunsky -- Beer and cider / George Saintsbury -- A free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- Some historians / Philip Guedalla -- Winter mist / Robert Palfrey Utter -- Trivia / Logan Pearsall Smith -- Beyond life / James Branch Cabell -- The fish reporter / Robert Costes Holliday -- Some nonsense about a dog / Harry Esty Dounce -- The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun.