Counsel Upon the Reading of Books (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1900 collection of papers contains essays written by historians H. Morse Stephens, Agnes Repplier, Arthur T. Hadley, Brander Matthews, Bliss Perry, and Hamilton Wright Mabie. Written for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, essays cover such topics as history; memoirs and biographies; sociology, economics, and politics; fiction; poetry; and criticism.