Books and men

by Agnes Repplier

BOOKS AND MEN

BY

AGNES REPPLIER Litt. D.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1888 AND 1916, BY AGNES REPPLIER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS.

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Children, Past and Present	1
On the Benefits of Superstition	33
What Children Read	64
The Decay of Sentiment	94
Curiosities of Criticism	125
Some Aspects of Pessimism	157
The Cavalier	191