Six of the ten essays in this volume--“Living in History,” “Dead Authors,” “Consolations of the Conservative,” “The Cheerful Clan,” “Woman Enthroned,” and “Money”--are reprinted through the courtesy of _The Atlantic Monthly_; “The Beloved Sinner” and “The Strayed Prohibitionist” through the courtesy of _The Century Magazine_; “Cruelty and Humour” through the courtesy of _The Yale Review_; “The Virtuous Victorian” through the courtesy of _The Nation_. When Mr. Bagehot spoke his luminous words about “a fatigued way of looking at great subjects,” he gave us the key to a mental attitude which perhaps is not the modern thing it seems. There were, no doubt, Greeks and Romans in plenty to whom the…
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