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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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Are Women Human?

19

E. M. Forster

Desmond MacCarthy

20

E. M. Forster

Tolerance

21

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

An Essayist of Three Hundred Years Ago

22

F. L. Lucas

The Master Essayist

23

Jacques Barzun

A Vision for Free Men

24

Jacques Barzun

Berenson and the Boot

25

Jacques Barzun

Culture and Tyranny

26

Jacques Barzun

Democracy: A Culture

27

Jacques Barzun

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

28

Jacques Barzun

Some Distinctive Characteristics of Modern Scholarship

29

Jacques Barzun

The Man-Mountain

30

Jacques Barzun

The Secretary's Turban and the Story Behind It

31

Jacques Barzun

The Tyranny of Idealism in Education

32

Jacques Barzun

Why Not the Third Cheer?

33

James Truslow Adams

Diminishing Returns in Modern Life

34

James Truslow Adams

Is Science a Blind Alley?

35

James Truslow Adams

Sweetness and Light -- Sixty Years After

36

James Truslow Adams

The Tempo of Modern Life

37

John Jay Chapman

Coatesville

38

John Jay Chapman

Learning

39

John Jay Chapman

Obsessions and Digressions

40

John Jay Chapman

The Negro Question

41

John Jay Chapman

The Schoolmaster

42

Leo Stein

William James

43

Leonard Bacon

Camões and the Glory of Portugal

44

Matthew Arnold

Joubert

45

Noel Annan

The Disintegration of an Old Culture

46

Norman St John-Stevas

The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot

47

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Bread and the Newspaper

48

Percy Lubbock

A Lesson of Horace

49

Ralph Adams Cram

Why We Do Not Behave Like Human Beings

50

Stephen Leacock

Oxford as I See It

51

W. H. Auden

Criticism in a Mass Society

52

W. H. Auden

Yale Daily News Banquet Address

53

Walter Bagehot

On the Emotion of Conviction

54

Walter Bagehot

On the Metaphysical Basis of Toleration

55

William James

On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

56

Woodrow Wilson

The Spirit of Learning

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