BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge 1916

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY AGNES REPPLIER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April 1916

THIRD IMPRESSION, AUGUST 1916

Note

These nine essays, in their original form, were published in the Atlantic Monthly during the past three years.

Contents

The Cost of Modern Sentiment [1]
Our Loss of Nerve [33]
Christianity and War [63]
Women and War [98]
The Repeal of Reticence [136]
Popular Education [165]
The Modest Immigrant [197]
Waiting [233]
Americanism [260]

COUNTER-CURRENTS


The Cost of Modern Sentiment