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reface iii AMERICAN LITERATURE _John Macy_ 3 MARY WHITE _William Allen White_ 22 NIAGARA FALLS _Rupert Brooke_ 30 THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE _Don Marquis_ 39 "THE MAN O' WAR'S 'ER 'USBAND" _David W. Bone_ 49 THE MARKET _William McFee_ 60 HOLY IRELAND _Joyce Kilmer_ 67 A FAMILIAR PREFACE _Joseph Conrad_ 81 ON DRAWING _A. P. Herbert_ 94 O. HENRY _O. W. Firkins_ 100 THE MOWING OF A FIELD _Hilaire Belloc_ 113 THE STUDENT LIFE _William Osler_ 128 THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA _Stephen Leacock_ 145 AMERICA AND THE ENGLISH TRADITION _Harry Morgan Ayres_ 153 THE RUSSIAN QUARTER _Thomas Burke_ 160 A WORD FOR AUTUMN _A. A. Milne_ 173 "A CLERGYMAN" _Max Beerbohm_ 177 SAMUEL BUTLER _Stuart P. Sherman_ 187 BED-BOOKS AND NIGHT-LIGHTS _H. M. Tomlinson_ 210 THE PRECEPT OF PEACE _Louise Imogen Guiney_ 219 ON LYING AWAKE AT NIGHT _Stewart Edward White_ 229 A WOODLAND VALENTINE _Marian Storm_ 236 THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY _George Santayana_ 241 NOCTURNE _Simeon Strunsky_ 246 BEER AND CIDER _George Saintsbury_ 253 A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP _Bertrand Russell_ 263 SOME HISTORIANS _Philip Guedalla_ 278 WINTER MIST _Robert Palfrey Utter_ 291 TRIVIA _Logan Pearsall Smith_ 297 BEYOND LIFE _James Branch Cabell_ 304 THE FISH REPORTER _Robert Cortes Holliday_ 316 SOME NONSENSE ABOUT A DOG _Harry Esty Dounce_ 331 THE FIFTY-FIRST DRAGON _Heywood Broun_ 338
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