Books and men
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BOOKS AND MEN
BY
AGNES REPPLIER Litt. D.
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1888 AND 1916, BY AGNES REPPLIER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS.
PAGE | |
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 |