Ellery Sedgwick, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, gathers a second round of the magazine’s essays worth keeping. Jane Addams describes the rumour of a devil baby that brought crowds to Hull-House, William Beebe records a night in the tropical jungle, and others write on dogs and men, college life, exile, exile and the natural desire to be somebody else.
An inviting sampler of American essay writing in the years of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.