- 1Preface
- 2American Literature — By John Macy
- 3Mary White by William Allen White
- 4Niagara Falls — By Rupert Brooke
- 5The Almost Perfect State — By Don Marquis
- 6“The Man-o’-War’s ‘Er ‘Usband” — By David W. Bone
- 7The Market — By William Mcfee
- 8Holy Ireland — By Joyce Kilmer
- 9A Familiar Preface — By Joseph Conrad
- 10On Drawing — By A. P. Herbert
- 11O. Henry — By O. W. Firkins
- 12The Mowing of a Field — By Hilaire Belloc
- 13The Student Life by William Osler
- 14The Decline of the Drama — By Stephen Leacock
- 15America and the English Tradition — By Harry Morgan Ayres
- 16The Russian Quarter — By Thomas Burke
- 17A Word for Autumn — By A. A. Milne
- 18“A Clergyman” — By Max Beerbohm
- 19Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians — By Stuart P. Sherman
- 20Bed-books and Night-lights — By H. M. Tomlinson
- 21The Precept of Peace — By Louise Imogen Guiney
- 22On Lying Awake at Night — By Stewart Edward White
- 23A Woodland Valentine — By Marian Storm
- 24The Elements of Poetry — By George Santayana
- 25Nocturne — By Simeon Strunsky
- 26Beer and Cider — By George Saintsbury
- 27A Free Man’s Worship — By Bertrand Russell
- 28Some Historians — By Philip Guedalla
- 29Winter Mist — By Robert Palfrey Utter
- 30Trivia — By Logan Pearsall Smith
- 31Beyond Life — By James Branch Cabell
- 32The Fish Reporter — By Robert Cortes Holliday
- 33Some Nonsense About a Dog — By Harry Esty Dounce
- 34The Fifty-first Dragon — By Heywood Broun
Modern Essays
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