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Sample ## Take a look inside BY THE SAME AUTHOR VILLA RUBEIN, and Other Stories THE ISLAND PHARISEES THE MAN OF PROPERTY THE COUNTRY HOUSE FRATERNITY THE PATRICIAN THE DARK FLOWER THE FREELANDS BEYOND FIVE TALES SAINT’S PROGRESS A COMMENTARY A MOTLEY THE INN OF TRANQUILLITY THE LITTLE MAN, and Other Satires A SHEAF ANOTHER SHEAF ADDRESSES IN AMERICA: 1919 PLAYS: FIRST SERIES and Separately THE SILVER BOX JOY STRIFE PLAYS: SECOND SERIES and Separately THE ELDEST SON THE LITTLE DREAM JUSTICE PLAYS: THIRD SERIES and Separately THE FUGITIVE THE PIGEON THE MOB A BIT O’ LOVE MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS MEMORIES. Illustrated CONTENTS PAGE I. AT THE LOWELL CENTENARY 1 II. AMERICAN AND BRITON 11 III. FROM A SPEECH AT THE LOTUS CLUB, NEW YORK 45 IV. FROM A SPEECH TO THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, NEW YORK 51 V. ADDRESS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 54 VI. TO THE LEAGUE OF POLITICAL EDUCATION, NEW YORK 67 VII. TALKING AT LARGE 73 ADDRESSES IN AMERICA 1919 I AT THE LOWELL CENTENARY We celebrate to-night the memory of a great man of Letters. What strikes me most about that glorious group of New England writers—Emerson and Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Thoreau, Motley, Holmes, and Lowell—is a certain measure and magnanimity. They were rare men and fine writers, of a temper simple and unafraid. I confess to thinking more of James Russell Lowell as a critic and master of prose than as a poet. His single-hearted enthusiasm for Letters had a glowing quality which made it a guiding star for the frail barque of culture. His humour, breadth of view, sagacity, and the all-round character of his activities has hardly been equalled in your country. 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