Gathered in 1914 from The Yale Review and other periodicals, this collection of critical essays considers Richardson, Dickens, Austen, and Marlowe; it also includes the articles “Notes on Mark Twain,” “Realism and Reality in Fiction,” “Carlyle’s Love-Letters,” “Schiller’s Personality and Influence,” “Schopenhauer and Omar,” “Lessing as a Creative Critic,” and more.