HUMANLY SPEAKING
BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
MDCCCCXII
COPYRIGHT, 1912.
BY SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1912
By Samuel M. Crothers
HUMANLY SPEAKING.
AMONG FRIENDS.
BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE.
THE PARDONER'S WALLET.
THE ENDLESS LIFE.
THE GENTLE READER.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: THE AUTOCRAT AND HIS FELLOW BOARDERS.
With Portrait.
MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY.
Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
Contents
[ IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER ]
[ THE CONTEMPORANEOUSNESS OF ROME ]
[ THE UNACCUSTOMED EARS OF EUROPE ]
[ THE OBVIOUSNESS OF DICKENS ]
[ THE SPOILED CHILDREN OF CIVILIZATION ]
[ ON REALISM AS AN INVESTMENT ]
[ TO A CITIZEN OF THE OLD SCHOOL ]
The author wishes to express his thanks to the Editors of the Atlantic Monthly and the Century Magazine for their courtesy in permitting the publication in this volume of certain essays which have appeared in their magazines.