Note
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 ofThe Atlantic Monthly; four of them, “The Masterful Puritan,” “Are Americans a Timid People?” “Allies,” and “The American Laughs,” through the courtesy ofThe Yale Review; “The Preacher at Large,” through the courtesy ofThe Century Magazine; “They Had Their Day,” through the courtesy ofHarper’s Magazine; “The Idolatrous Dog,” through the courtesy ofThe Forum.