Chapter I: Talk of Dreams 308

William Dean Howells (1837- ).

AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE 331
John Burroughs (1837- ).

CUT-OFF COPPLES'S 351
Clarence King (1842-1901).

THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS 368
Henry James (1843- ).

THEOCRITUS ON CAPE COD 394
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846- ).

COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES 410
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- ).

NEW YORK AFTER PARIS 440
William Crary Brownell (1851- ).

THE TYRANNY OF THINGS 467
Edward Sandford Martin (1856- ).

FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION IN LITERATURE 475
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857- ).

DANTE AND THE BOWERY 480
Theodore Roosevelt (1858- ).

THE REVOLT OF THE UNFIT 489
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862- ).

ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE 497
William Peterfield Trent (1862- ).