Copyright, 1905
BY
PAUL ELMER MORE
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
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The last essay in this volume, though written several years ago, has never before been printed. For permission to reprint the other essays thanks are due to the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, the Independent, and the New York Evening Post.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Correspondence of William Cowper | [1] |
| Whittier the Poet | [28] |
| The Centenary of Sainte-Beuve | [54] |
| The Scotch Novels and Scotch History | [82] |
| Swinburne | [100] |
| Christina Rossetti | [124] |
| Why is Browning Popular? | [143] |
| A Note on Byron's "Don Juan" | [166] |
| Laurence Sterne | [177] |
| J. Henry Shorthouse | [213] |
| The Quest of a Century | [244] |