Essays from the Chap-Book

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Various. Essays from the Chap-Book

Ibsen’s New Play. By. H. H. Boyesen

Bits of Criticism. By. John Burroughs

Verlaine: A Feminine Appreciation. By. Mrs. Reginald de Koven

Degeneration. By. Alice Morse Earle

The Pleasures of Historiography. By. Alice Morse Earle

The Bureau of Literary Revision. By. Alice Morse Earle

Mr. Meredith and his Aminta. By. Lewis E. Gates

The Popularity of Poetry. By. Edmund Gosse

Concerning Me and the Metropolis. By. Louise Imogen Guiney

“Trilby” By. Louise Imogen Guiney

Modern Laodicea. By. Norman Hapgood

The Intellectual Parvenu. By. Norman Hapgood

The School of Jingoes. By. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The Uses of Perversity. By. Laurence Jerrold

A Comment on Some Recent Books. By. Hamilton Wright Mabie

One Word More. By. Hamilton Wright Mabie

The Man Who Dares. By. Louise Chandler Moulton

R. L. S. – Some Edinburgh Notes. By. Eve Blantyre Simpson

Mr. Gilbert Parker’s. Sonnets. By. Richard Henry Stoddard

Is the New Woman New? By. Maurice Thompson

The Return of the Girl. By. Maurice Thompson

The Art of Saying Nothing Well. By. Maurice Thompson

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THE difference between a precious stone and a common stone is not an essential difference – not a difference of substance, but of arrangement of the particles – the crystallization. In substance the charcoal and the diamond are one, but in form and effect how widely they differ. The pearl contains nothing that is not found in the coarsest oyster-shell.

Two men have the same thoughts; they use about the same words in expressing them; yet with one the product is real literature, with the other it is a platitude.

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The last is a very poignant line – and again in “Ariettes Oubliées,” —

Then comes the reflection as to the eyes of women, profoundly true and observant, contained in the last two verses of the first stanza: —

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