THE OXFORD BOOK OF
AMERICAN ESSAYS
CHOSEN BY
BRANDER MATTHEWS
Professor in Columbia University
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
NEW YORK
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMERICAN BRANCH: 35 West 32nd Street
LONDON, TORONTO, MELBOURNE, AND BOMBAY
HUMPHREY MILFORD
1914
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Copyright, 1914
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMERICAN BRANCH
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | v |
| The Ephemera: an Emblem of Human Life | 1 |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). | |
| The Whistle | 4 |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). | |
| Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout | 7 |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). | |
| Consolation for the Old Bachelor | 15 |
| Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). | |
| John Bull | 21 |
| Washington Irving (1783-1859). | |
| The Mutability of Literature | 34 |
| Washington Irving (1783-1859). | |
| Kean’s Acting | 47 |
| Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879). | |
| Gifts | 62 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). | |
| Uses of Great Men | 67 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). | |
| Buds and Bird-voices | 88 |
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