CONTENTS

William Hazlitt[ 1]
Edward FitzGerald[ 43]
Thoreau[ 89]
Thoreau’s Demand upon Nature[ 131]
Robert Louis Stevenson[ 151]
A Relish of Keats[ 195]
Anatole France[ 227]
Verbal Magic[ 275]
Quotability[ 289]
The Grace of Obscurity[ 309]
In Defense of the Traveler’s Notebook[ 319]
Concerning the Lack of an American Literature [ 329]