In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

by Agnes Repplier

AND OTHER PAPERS
BY
AGNES REPPLIER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1894
Copyright, 1894,
By AGNES REPPLIER.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
TO
ANNIS LEE WISTER

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
[In the Dozy Hours]	[1]
[A Kitten]	[16]
[At the Novelist’s Table]	[32]
[In Behalf of Parents]	[42]
[Aut Cæsar, aut Nihil]	[60]
[A Note on Mirrors]	[76]
[Gifts]	[85]
[Humor: English and American]	[94]
[The Discomforts of Luxury: A Speculation]	[112]
[Lectures]	[123]
[Reviewers and Reviewed]	[137]
[Pastels: A Query]	[153]
[Guests]	[158]
[Sympathy]	[165]
[Opinions]	[176]
[The Children’s Age]	[190]
[A Forgotten Poet]	[201]
[Dialogues]	[211]
[A Curious Contention]	[217]
[The Passing of the Essay]	[226]

IN THE DOZY HOURS, AND OTHER PAPERS.

IN THE DOZY HOURS.

“Montaigne and Howell’s letters,” says Thackeray, “are my bedside books. If I wake at night, I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again. They talk about themselves forever, and don’t weary me. I like to hear them tell their old stories over and over again. I read them in the dozy hours, and only half remember them.”