Copyright, 1907, by
Brander Matthews
Published September, 1907
TO MY FRIEND AND FELLOW CRAFTSMAN
HENRY ARTHUR JONES
| CONTENTS | PAGE | |
| I | Literature in the New Century | 1 |
| II | The Supreme Leaders | 27 |
| III | An Apology for Technic | 49 |
| IV | Old Friends with New Faces | 73 |
| V | Invention and Imagination | 95 |
| VI | Poe and the Detective-story | 111 |
| VII | Mark Twain | 137 |
| VIII | A Note on Maupassant | 167 |
| IX | The Modern Novel and the Modern Play | 179 |
| X | The Literary Merit of our Latter-day Drama | 205 |
| XI | Ibsen the Playwright | 227 |
| XII | The Art of the Stage-manager | 281 |
[This paper was read on September 24th, 1904, in the section ofBelles-lettres of the International Congress of the Arts and Sciences,held at St. Louis.]
There is no disguising the difficulty of any attempt to survey the wholefield of literature as it is disclosed before us now at the opening of anew century; and there is no denying the danger of any effort to declarethe outlook in the actual present and the prospect in the immediatefuture. How is it possible to project our vision, to foresee whither thecurrent is bearing us, to anticipate the ro