| Description |
lvi, 349 pages ; 18 cm |
| Note |
Designed by Bruce Rogers. |
| Contents |
Nature: Our tame hummingbirds ; A rhapsody of clouds ; Cheerfulness of birds ; The red leaves on the snow ; The earth-spirit's voices ; Human nature in chickens ; A new earth in the old earth's arms -- Literature and criticism: Shakespeare's prose ; An impression of Balzac ; Three sonnets ; The charms of similitude ; Books of refuge ; The most pathetic figure in story ; German lyric poetry vs. French ; The clang-tint of words ; The objections to spelling reform ; Principles of criticism ; A private letter -- Music: Management of the mind while hearing music ; Can tunes be inherited? -- Psychology and ethics: Individual continuity ; What do we mean by "right" and "ought" ; The psychology of interruptions ; The bread-and-butter moments of the mind ; The slipperiness of certain words ; The ethics of the plank at sea ; The mind as a bad portrait painter ; The felt location of the "I" ; What is the oldest thing in the world? ; The free will of the bonfire ; The invisible part of this world we live in -- Education: Should a college educate? -- Life: Wanted - a friend ; Romantic dispositions ; The good things of our friend as his compensations ; Choosing a class of people for extermination ; The left-over expression of countenance ; The nouveau cultive ; The keeper-in and the blurter-out ; Old Morton. |
| Indexed In: |
Work of Bruce Rogers, 51 |
| Form |
Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site. |
| Subject |
Sill, Edward Rowland, 1841-1887.
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Sill, Edward Rowland, 1841-1887 (OCoLC)fst00008150
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| Added Author |
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner. DLC
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Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| Added Title |
Prose works. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sill, Edward Rowland, 1841-1887. Prose works. Selections. Prose of Edward Rowland Sill. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press, 1900 (OCoLC)567396843 |
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