Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Leading American Essayists
The English essay is a literary species not easily defined. The term has been applied even in modern times to productions as far apart as the Essays of Ella and the Essay on Population. Between these extremes come countless writings, ranging from the solemnity of the Essays and Reviews to the light-heartedness, not to say the frivolity, of The New Republic. These contrasting examples from English literature may be matched on the American side of the Atlantic by naming Horace Greeley's Essays on American Farming with Donald Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor, the Essays of Count Rumford with Irving's Sketch Book, and the miscellaneous writings of the elder Henry James with those of the younger.
We may, however, omit from the reckoning with out any serious question both the Reverend Mr. Malthus and the contributors to the Essays and Reviews, both the American pioneer of physical science and the American journalist, together with the authors of many other writings that are styled essays rather by accident than of set purpose.
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