Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PART of the present volume appeared in _Great Thoughts_. Yet here am I, whose name is associated--if at all--in the memory of readers with ‘little thoughts,’ and with booklets impudent in the slenderness of their matter, presumptuously standing forth to bow the public into the...
PART of the present volume appeared in _Great Thoughts_. Yet here am I, whose name is associated--if at all--in the memory of readers with ‘little thoughts,’ and with booklets i...
2. Part 2WHAT are the books that tempt? Are they the old, familiar volumes, old friends in old clothes--well-worn editions of the classics? Or are they those same old friends decked in r...
3. Part 3And thus one may journey from house to house, from street to street, from county to county, and from country to country, to wellnigh any spot between the two Poles, there to fin...
4. Part 4‘Be with our friends, be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest. If any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns, return to us our sun and...
5. Part 5‘What think you of this passage?’ he cried after an exchange of greetings. ‘It is from a comparatively modern book--from a novel, to be precise, by Henry Harland. I fancy it sho...