In republishing this collection, The Atlantic Press owes its warm thanks to every author represented, and desires to make acknowledgment to Houghton Mifflin Company for the inclusion of Mr. Merwin's inimitable 'Dogs and Men,' already reprinted in a volume of the author's own; to the Macmillan Company for permission granted to Miss Addams to allow her contemporary legend 'The Devil Baby' to be reprinted here. It should be added that Mr. Chapman's shining paper on 'The Greek Genius' will be found in more extended form in his volume of similar title, to which every instructed reader should turn.
E. S.
The Atlantic Office.
January, 1918.
| Contents | ||
|---|---|---|
| [DOGSANDMEN] | Henry C. Merwin | [1] |
| [JUNGLENIGHT] | William Beebe | [26] |
| [THEDEVILBABYATHULL-HOUSE] | Jane Addams | [52] |
| [EVERYMAN'SNATURAL DESIRE TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE ] | Samuel McChord Crothers | [78] |
| [THETEMPLE'SDIFFICULT DOOR] | Robert M. Gay | [95] |
| [EXILEANDPOSTMAN] | Jean Kenyan Mackenzie | [109] |
| [THELIFEOFADVENTURE] | Edgar J. Goodspeed | [121] |
| [ANINDICTMENTOFINTERCOLLEGIATEATHLETICS] | William T. Foster | [134] |
| [CAR-WINDOW BOTANY] | Lida F. Baldwin | [162] |
| [STUDIESINSOLITUDE] | Fannie Stearns Gifford | [173] |
| [THEGREEKGENIUS] | John Jay Chapman | [184] |
| [INPRAISEOFOLDLADIES] | Lucy Martin Donnelly | [217] |
| [AMEMORYOFOLDGENTLEMEN] | Sharlot M. Hall | [227] |
| [VIOLA'SLOVERS] | Richard Bowland Kimball | [235] |
| [HAUNTEDLIVES] | Laura Spencer Portor | [247] |
| [THEACROPOLISANDGOLGOTHA] | Anne C. E. Allinson | [273] |
| [THEBAPTIZINGOFTHEBABY] | Elizabeth Taylor | [292] |
| [BIOGRAPHICALNOTES] | [ 307] | |
Dogs and Men
By Henry C. Merwin
THERE are men and women in the world who, of their own free will, live a dogless life, not knowing what they miss; and for them this essay, securely placed in the dignified Atlantic, there to remain so long as libraries and books shall endure, is chiefly written. Let them not pass it by in scorn, but rather stop to consider what can be said of the animal as a fellow being entitled to their sympathy, and having, perhaps, a like destiny with themselves.