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Articles

Essays and shorter works not included in the book catalogue.

Articles
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Shorter works

The collection

Essays, addresses, criticism, and occasional pieces, arranged alphabetically by author.

01

A. E. Housman

Lecture at University College London

02

Agnes Repplier

Horace

03

Agnes Repplier

Sympathy

04

Albert Jay Nock

A Cultural Forecast

05

Albert Jay Nock

Artemus Ward

06

Albert Jay Nock

Artemus Ward's America

07

Albert Jay Nock

College is No Place to Get an Education

08

Albert Jay Nock

Free Speech and Plain Language

09

Albert Jay Nock

Isaiah's Job

10

Albert Jay Nock

Pantagruelism

11

Albert Jay Nock

The Decline of Conversation

12

Albert Jay Nock

The Triumph of the Gadget

13

Albert O. Hirschman

The Principle of the Hiding Hand

14

Aldous Huxley

If My Library Burned Tonight

15

Aldous Huxley

Words and Behaviour

16

André Gide

Montaigne

17

André Maurois

Alain

18

Desmond MacCarthy

Samuel Butler

19

Dorothy L. Sayers

Are Women Human?

20

E. M. Forster

Desmond MacCarthy

21

E. M. Forster

Tolerance

22

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

An Essayist of Three Hundred Years Ago

23

F. L. Lucas

The Master Essayist

24

Jacques Barzun

A Vision for Free Men

25

Jacques Barzun

Berenson and the Boot

26

Jacques Barzun

Culture and Tyranny

27

Jacques Barzun

Democracy: A Culture

28

Jacques Barzun

Foreword to "Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War"

29

Jacques Barzun

Some Distinctive Characteristics of Modern Scholarship

30

Jacques Barzun

The Man-Mountain

31

Jacques Barzun

The Secretary's Turban and the Story Behind It

32

Jacques Barzun

The Tyranny of Idealism in Education

33

Jacques Barzun

Why Not the Third Cheer?

34

James Truslow Adams

Diminishing Returns in Modern Life

35

James Truslow Adams

Is Science a Blind Alley?

36

James Truslow Adams

Sweetness and Light -- Sixty Years After

37

James Truslow Adams

The Tempo of Modern Life

38

John Jay Chapman

Coatesville

39

John Jay Chapman

Learning

40

John Jay Chapman

Obsessions and Digressions

41

John Jay Chapman

The Negro Question

42

John Jay Chapman

The Schoolmaster

43

Leo Stein

William James

44

Leonard Bacon

Camões and the Glory of Portugal

45

Matthew Arnold

Joubert

46

Noel Annan

The Disintegration of an Old Culture

47

Norman St John-Stevas

The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot

48

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Bread and the Newspaper

49

Percy Lubbock

A Lesson of Horace

50

Ralph Adams Cram

Why We Do Not Behave Like Human Beings

51

Stephen Leacock

Oxford as I See It

52

W. H. Auden

Criticism in a Mass Society

53

W. H. Auden

Yale Daily News Banquet Address

54

Walter Bagehot

On the Emotion of Conviction

55

Walter Bagehot

On the Metaphysical Basis of Toleration

56

William James

On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

57

Woodrow Wilson

The Spirit of Learning

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