Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "Ten o'clock," by J. M. Whistler.--Tact, by Sir J. Lubbock, lord Avebury.--Book-buying, by A. Birrell.--Alexander Hamilton, by F. Harrsion.--Salad, by C. S. Baldwin.--Words that laugh and cry, by C. A. Dana.--National characteristics as moulding public opinion, by J. Bryce.--American manners, by Wu Tingfang.--Franklin, by H. C. Lodge.--The serious Pepys, by W. C. Abbott.--What the ten-year sergeant of police tells, by H. H. Curran.--The powers of the President, by W. H. Taft.--John Greenleaf Whittier, by G. E. Woodberry.--Thackeray's centenary, by H. A. Beers.--Tennyson, by P. E. More.--Realism Canby. Edward Gibbon, by J. F. Rhodes --The mildness of the yellow press, by G. K. Chesterton.--What is education? by C. M. Flandrau.--Why a classic is a classic, by A. Bennett.--Homer and the study of Greek, by A. Lang.--Homer and humbug, an academic discussion, by S. Leacock.--On the case of a certain man who is never thought of, by W. G. Sumner.--The training of intellect, by W. Wilson.--The responsibility of authors, by Sir O. Lodge.--Filial relations, by J. Addams.--The irony of nature, by R. Burton.--0n seeing ten bad plays, by F. M. Colby.--A stepdaughter of the prairie, by Margaret Lynn.--Yosemite, by A. Colton.--The Bowery and Bohemia, by H. C. Bunner.--Evolution, by J. Galsworthy.--Biographical index