BY AGNES REPPLIER, LITT.D. AUTHOR OF “POINTS OF FRICTION,” “COMPROMISES,” “COUNTER-CURRENTS,” ETC. Five of the twelve essays in this volume, “To Counsel the Doubtful,” “The Happiness of Writing an Autobiography,” “The Divineness of Discontent,” “Strayed Sympathies,” and “The Battlefield of Education,” are reprinted through the courtesy of _The Atlantic Monthly_; four of them, “The Masterful Puritan,” “Are Americans a Timid People?” “Allies,” and “The American Laughs,” through the courtesy of _The Yale Review_; “The Preacher at Large,” through the courtesy of _The Century Magazine_; “They Had Their Day,” through the courtesy of _Harper’s Magazine_; “The Idolatrous Dog,” through the courtesy …
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