Americans and others

Americans and others (1912)
by Agnes Repplier

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AMERICANS AND OTHERS

BY

AGNES REPPLIER, Litt.D.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY AGNES REPPLIER

Published October 1912

Note

Five of the essays in this volume appear in print for the first time. Others have been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, Harper's Bazar, and the Catholic World.

Contents

A Question of Politeness	1
The Mission of Humour	29
Goodness and Gayety	58
The Nervous Strain	85
The Girl Graduate	99
The Estranging Sea	119
Travellers' Tales	141
The Chill of Enthusiasm	155
The Temptation of Eve	173
"The Greatest of These is Charity"	208
The Customary Correspondent	219
The Benefactor	237
The Condescension of Borrowers	252
The Grocer's Cat	273

AMERICANS AND OTHERS

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