MODERN ESSAYS
Reprinted from Leading Articles in “The Times.”
With an Introduction by Dr. J. W. MACKAIL, F.R.S.L.
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This volume contains a selection from the charming series of Essays which have formed such a prominent feature among the Leading Articles in The Times during the last year or two. They present admirable examples of modern English style, and deal with themes, round which the thought of all ages of literature has sparkled, in the spirit of the twentieth century. Inimitable as are the Essays of Bacon, Addison or Steele, it cannot be denied that the lapse of time has inevitably drawn a line between the intellectual atmosphere in which those famous authors moved, and the current of modern thought. The same problems are with us to-day, but their appeal to us is made under new conditions; these Essays respond to an ever-present need for the wisdom of ages, but arrayed in the guise of 1915.