The New World And the New Book, An Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891

Authors: Higginson Thomas Wentworth

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The new world and the new book.- An American temperament.- The shadow of Europe.- On taking ourselves seriously.- A cosmopolitan standard.- A contemporaneous posterity.- On literary tonica.- The fear of the dead level.- Do we need a literary centre?- The equation of fame.- Concerning high-water marks.- Personal ideals.- On the need of a background.- Unnecessary apologies.- The perils of American humor.- On the proposed abolition of the plot.- American translators.- The Westminster abbey of a boo

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k catalogue.- Town and gown.- "Make thy option which of two."- The decline of the sentimental.- Concerning giants.- Weapons of precision.- The test of the dime saved.- The trick of self-depreciation.- The literary pendulum.- The evolution of an American.- A world-literature

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