BOOKS AND MEN
BY
AGNES REPPLIER Litt. D.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1888 AND 1916, BY AGNES REPPLIER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Children, Past and Present | 1 |
| On the Benefits of Superstition | 33 |
| What Children Read | 64 |
| The Decay of Sentiment | 94 |
| Curiosities of Criticism | 125 |
| Some Aspects of Pessimism | 157 |
| The Cavalier | 191 |