"Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in various periodicals."--Pref.

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Realism and reality in fiction.

Richardson.

Jane Austen.

Dickens.

Carlyle's love-letters.

Whittier.

Notes on Mark Twain.

Marlowe.

The poet Herrick.

Schopenhauer and Omar.

Lessing as a creative critic.

Schiller's personality and influence.

Conversations with Paul Heyse.