THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much…

THE WRITER HIMSELF  by Robert Saunders Dowst Critical Faculty—Cultivation of Genius—Observation and Information—Open-mindedness—Attitude Toward Life—Prejudice and Provincialism—The Social Question—Reading—Imagination. Accessible as are the data of the fiction writer, the facts and possibilities of life, their…

BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND HATS by Mark Twain           ADDRESS AT THE PILGRIMS' CLUB LUNCHEON, GIVEN IN HONOR OF Mr.           CLEMENS AT THE SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON, JUNE 25, 1907.           Mr. Birrell, , Chief-Secretary for…

WHAT I CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF MY YOUTH   I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and…

RUPERT BROOKE: by Henry James Nothing more generally or more recurrently solicits us, in the light of literature, I think, than the interest of our learning how the poet, the true poet, and above all…

  No thornier theme could well be suggested than I was once invited to consider by an Englishman who wished to know how far American politicians were scholars, and how far American authors took part…

There was a painless stage of incubation that lasted twenty-five years, and then it broke out on me, and people said I was It. But they called it humor instead of measles. The employees in…

Life and Writing  by Arthur Christopher Benson There is a tendency, not by any means among the greater writers, but among what may be called the epigoni,—the satellites of literature, the men who would be…

I Am Not An Animal Expert! by Jack London American journalism has its moments of fantastic hysteria, and when it is on the rampage the only thing for a rational man to do is to…