Essays from the Chap-Book / Being a Miscellany of Curious and interesting Tales, Histories, &c; newly composed by Many Celebrated Writers and very delightful to read.

Chap-Book Essays

ESSAYS from the Chap-Book
Being a MISCELLANY of Curious and interesting Tales, Histories, &c; newly composed by Many Celebrated Writers and very delightful to read. CHICAGO. Printed for Herbert S. Stone & Company , and are to be sold by them at The Caxton Building in Dearborn Street 1896

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY HERBERT S. STONE & CO.



IBSEN’S NEW PLAY.
NEVER has the great master written anything simpler and more human than “Little Eyolf.” The two fundamental chords which sound with varying force through all his earlier works are here struck anew with increased distinctness and resonance. The ennobling power of suffering, the educational value of pain,—that is the first lesson which the play conveys; and the second, which is closely akin to it, is the development of personality through the discipline of renunciation.