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Modern English Essays I sort of realize what we’re fighting for now, and I never did before. It’s for women like that and their kids. —“Holy Ireland” by Joyce Kilmer 当 代 英 语 散 文 选 读 Contents 1. American Literature by John Macy 1 2. Mary White by William Allen White 10 3. Niagara Falls by Rupert Brooke 14 4. The Almost Perfect State by Don Marquis 18 I 18 II 20 5. “The Man-o’-War’s ’Er ’Usband” by David W. Bone 23 6. The Market by William McFee 28 7. Holy Ireland by Joyce Kilmer 31 8. A Familiar Preface by Joseph Conrad 38 9. On Drawing by A. P. Herbert 44 10. O. Henry by O. W. Firkins 47 11. The Mowing of a Field by Hilaire Belloc 53 12. The Student Life by William Osler 60 13. The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock 68 14. America and the English Tradition by Harry Morgan Ayres 72 15. The Russian Quarter by Thomas Burke 75 16. A Word for Autumn by A. A. Milne 81 17. “A Clergyman” by Max Beerbohm 83 18. Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians by Stuart P. Sherman 88 19. Bed-Books and Night-Lights by H. M. Tomlinson 99 20. The Precept of Peace by Louise Imogen Guiney 104 21. On Lying Awake at Night by Stewart Edward White 109 22. A Woodland Valentine by Marian Storm 112 23. The Elements of Poetry by George Santayana 115 24. Nocturne by Simeon Strunsky 117 25. Beer and Cider by George Saintsbury 120 26. A Free Man’s Worship By Bertrand Russell 125 27. Some Historians by Philip Guedalla 132 The Night Attack 135 How the Prussians Came To Guitry-Le-Sec 135 28. Winter Mist by Robert Palfrey Utter 138 29. Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith 141 Stonehenge 141 The Stars 141 The Spider 142 L’Oiseau Bleu 142 I See the World 142 The Church of England 143 Consolation 143 The Kaleidoscope 143 The Poplar 144 30. Beyond Life by James Branch Cabell 145 31. The Fish Reporter by Robert Cortes Holliday 151 32. Some Nonsense about a Dog by Harry Esty Dounce 158 33. The Fifty-First Dragon by Heywood Broun 161 1. American Literature by John Macy This vigorous survey of American lett