The new world and the new book, an address, delivered before the Nineteenth century club of New York city, Jan. 15, 1891. With kindred essays, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
The new world and the new book.--An American temperament.--The shadow of Europe.--On taking ourselves seriously.--A cosmopolitan standard.--A contemporaneous posterity.--On literary tonics.--The fear of the dead level.--Do we need a literary centre?--The equation of fame.--Concerning high-water marks.--Personal ideals.--On the need of a background.--Unnecessary apologies.--The perils of American humor.--On the proposed abolition of the plot.--American translators.--The Westminster abbey of a book catalogue.--Town and gown.--"Make thy option which of two."--The decline of the sentimental.--Concerning giants.--Weapons of precision.--The test of the dime novel.--The trick of self- depreciation.--The literary pendulum.--The evolution of an American.--A world- literature.
