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The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley WarnerThe Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner Thirty years ago and more those who read and valued good books in this country made the acquaintance of Mr. Warner, and since the publication of My Summer In a Garden no work of his has needed...
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The People for Whom Shakespeare WroteThe People for Whom Shakespeare WroteQueen Elizabeth being dead about ten o'clock in the morning, March 24, 1603, Sir Robert Cary posted away, unsent, to King James of Scotland to inform him of the "accident," and got made a baron of the realm for...
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The Novel and the Common SchoolThe Novel and the Common SchoolThere has been a great improvement in the physical condition of the people of the United States within two generations. This is more noticeable in the West than in the East, but it is marked everywhere; and the foreign...
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EnglandEnglandEngland has played a part in modern history altogether out of proportion to its size. The whole of Great Britain, including Ireland, has only eleven thousand more square miles than Italy; and England and Wales alone are not half so large as Italy. England...
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Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Froude's "Progress"Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Froude's "Progress"To revisit this earth, some ages after their departure from it, is a common wish among men. We frequently hear men say that they would give so many months or years of their lives in exchange for a less...
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Modern FictionModern FictionOne of the worst characteristics of modern fiction is its so-called truth to nature. For fiction is an art, as painting is, as sculpture is, as acting is. A photograph of a natural object is not art; nor is the plaster cast of...
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What Is Your Culture to Me?What Is Your Culture to Me?Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used...
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EqualityEqualityIn accordance with the advice of Diogenes of Apollonia in the beginning of his treatise on Natural Philosophy"It appears to me to be well for every one who commences any sort of philosophical treatise to lay down some undeniable principle to start with"we offer...
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The Relation of Literature to LifeThe Relation of Literature to LifeThe county of Franklin in Northwestern Massachusetts, if not rivaling in certain ways the adjoining Berkshire, has still a romantic beauty of its own. In the former half of the nineteenth century its population was largely given up to...
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Literary CopyrightLiterary CopyrightThis is the first public meeting of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The original members were selected by an invitation from the American Social Science Association, which acted under the power of its charter from the Congress of the United States....
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The Indeterminate Sentence: What Shall Be Done with the Criminal Class?The Indeterminate Sentence: What Shall Be Done with the Criminal Class?The problem of dealing with the criminal class seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. It has never been attempted on a fully scientific basis, with due regard to the protection of...
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The Education of the NegroThe Education of the NegroAt the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizenship of the United States. By the census of 1890 this number had become over seven and a half millions. I use...
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Some Causes of the Prevailing DiscontentSome Causes of the Prevailing DiscontentThe Declaration of Independence opens with the statement of a great and fruitful political truth. But if it had said:"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their Creator...
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The Pilgrim, and the American of Today—(1892)The Pilgrim, and the American of Today—(1892)This December evening, the imagination, by a law of contrast, recalls another December night two hundred and seventy years ago. The circle of darkness is drawn about a little group of Pilgrims who have come ashore on a...
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Certain Diversities of American LifeCertain Diversities of American LifeThis is a very interesting age. Within the memory of men not yet come to middle life the time of the trotting horse has been reduced from two minutes forty seconds to two minutes eight and a quarter seconds. During...
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The American NewspaperThe American NewspaperOur theme for the hour is the American Newspaper. It is a subject in which everybody is interested, and about which it is not polite to say that anybody is not well informed; for, although there are scattered through the land many...
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Fashions in LiteratureFashions in LiteratureThirty years ago and more those who read and valued good books in this country made the acquaintance of Mr. Warner, and since the publication of "My Summer In a Garden" no work of his has needed any other introduction than the...
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Nine Short EssaysNine Short EssaysIt was in the time of the Second Empire. To be exact, it was the night of the 18th of June, 1868; I remember the date, because, contrary to the astronomical theory of short nights at this season, this was the longest...
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As We GoAs We GoWe are so much accustomed to kings and queens and other privileged persons of that sort in this world that it is only on reflection that we wonder how they became so. The mystery is not their continuance, but how did they...
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As We Were SayingAs We Were SayingThe Drawer will still bet on the rose. This is not a wager, but only a strong expression of opinion. The rose will win. It does not look so now. To all appearances, this is the age of the chrysanthemum. What...
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