BY WILLIAM LYON PHELPS LAMPSON PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT YALE AND LETTERS NOTE TO THE READER The paper in this volume is brittle or the inner margins are extremely narrow. We have bound or rebound the volume utilizing the best means possible. PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE GENERAL BOOKBINDING CO., CHESTERLAND, OHIO BY WILLIAM LYON PHELPS M.A. (HARVARD), Ph.D. (Yale) LAMPSON PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT YALE AND LETTERS New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914 All rights reserved 804 201758 Copyright, 1907, by The North American Review Publishing Company; PREFACE MOST of the essays in this volume have appeared in various periodicals - the Century Magazine, the North American Review, the Forum, the New Englander, the Yale Review, and others. Some were written as introductions to limited editions. The first essay was originally read at a joint meeting of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, at New York, in 1912; the essay on Schiller was read at Yale University, on the one hundredth anniversary of the poet's death, in 1905. SEVEN GABLES, LAKE HURON, W. L. P. |