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CONTENTS


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I
The World-Author
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Biography—Centennial—Russia—Germany—Italy—Spain—Latin-America—France—England—Retrospect and Prospect.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
II
The Man
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26
 
Relation to Time and Place—Accurate Observer—Interest in Public Education—Slavery—Alleged Sectionalism—Americanism—Humor—At Home—Religion—Intemperance—Not the Poet Laureate of Darkness.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
III
The CriticIntroduction
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73
 
"The Faculty of Identification"
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76
 
"The Novel as History and Philosophy"
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78
 
"An Omen of Better Days for Southern Literature"
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80
 
"Comparison vs. Ideality"
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82
 
"A Present Tense Wrongly Used"
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93
 
"The Spirit of Research in Our Navy"
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94
 
"Government and the Forms of Government"
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97
 
"William Cullen Bryant"
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98
 
"Indefinitiveness in Song"
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106
 
"Fancy and Imagination"
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110
 
"The Nature and Interest of Plot"
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116
 
"Defects in the Technique of Barnaby Rudge"
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124
 
"Longfellow's Ballads"
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142
 
"The Technique of the Short Story"
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149
 
"Repetition an Aid to Quaintness"
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158
 
"Shelley and After"
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160
 
"Plagiarism"
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163
 
"How to Improve Our Drama"
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166
 
"German Criticism"
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171