BOOKS AND CULTURE

 

By

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

Decoration

NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

MDCCCCVII

Copyright, 1896,

By Dodd, Mead and Company,
All rights reserved.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

 

To

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN


 

CONTENTS

  • CHAPTERPAGE
  • MATERIAL AND METHOD7
  • TIME AND PLACE20
  • MEDITATION AND IMAGINATION34
  • THE FIRST DELIGHT51
  • THE FEELING FOR LITERATURE63
  • THE BOOKS OF LIFE74
  • FROM THE BOOK TO THE READER85
  • BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION95
  • PERSONALITY109
  • LIBERATION THROUGH IDEAS121
  • THE LOGIC OF FREE LIFE132
  • THE IMAGINATION143
  • BREADTH OF LIFE154
  • RACIAL EXPERIENCE165
  • FRESHNESS OF FEELING174
  • LIBERATION FROM ONE'S TIME185
  • LIBERATION FROM ONE'S PLACE195
  • THE UNCONSCIOUS ELEMENT204
  • THE TEACHING OF TRAGEDY217
  • THE CULTURE ELEMENT IN FICTION229
  • CULTURE THROUGH ACTION239
  • THE INTERPRETATION OF IDEALISM250
  • THE VISION OF PERFECTION260
  • RETROSPECT271

Chapter I.

Material and Method.

If the writer who ventures to say something more about books and theiruses is wise, he will not begin with an apology; for he will knowthat, despite all that has been said and written on this engrossingtheme, the interest of books is inexhaustible, and that there isalways a new constituency to read them. So rich is the

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