Literature and Life

A fascinating collection from Howells, featuring the following: Worries of a Winter Walk, Summer Isles of Eden, Wild Flowers of the Asphalt, A Circus in the Suburbs, A She Hamlet, The Midnight Platoon, The Beach at Rockaway, Sawdust in the Arena, At a Dime Museum, American Literature in Exile, The Horse Show, The Problem of the Summer, Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago, From New York into New England, The Art of the Adsmith, The Psychology of Plagiarism, Puritanism in American Fiction, The What and How in Art, Politics in American Authors, Storage, "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o".