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The Oxford Book of American Essays The charm of the essay lies in the fact that it is not formal, that it may be whimsical in its point of departure and capricious in its ramblings after it has got itself under way. ?Introduction by Brander Mathews  Contents I. The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life by Benjamin Franklin 1 II. The Whistle by Benjamin Franklin 3 III. Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout by Benjamin Franklin 5 IV. Consolation for the Old Bachelor by Francis Hopkinson 10 V. John Bull by Washington Irving 14 VI. The Mutability of Literature by Washington Irving 22 VII. Kean’s Acting by Richard Henry Dana 30 VIII. Gifts by Ralph Waldo Emerson 40 IX. Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson 43 X. Buds and Bird-voices by Nathaniel Hawthorne 56 XI. The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe 63 XII. Bread and the Newspaper by Oliver Wendell Holmes 73 XIII. Walking by Henry David Thoreau 81 XIV. On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners by James Russell Lowell 105 XV. Preface to “Leaves of Grass,” 1855 by Walt Whitman 122 XVI. Americanism in Literature by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 133 XVII. Thackeray in America by George William Curtis 143 XVIII. Our March to Washington by Theodore Winthrop 150 Through the City 150 Philadelphia 151 The “Boston” 152 Annapolis 155 What the Massachusetts Eighth Had Been Doing 157 Our Morning March 158 On Guard with Howitzer No. Two 160 The Bridge 162 The Night-March 163 Morning 165 Washington 166 XIX. Calvin (A Study of Character) by Charles Dudley Warner 167 XX. Five American Contributions to Civilization by Charles William Eliot 174 XXI. I Talk of Dreams by William Dean Howells 192 I 192 II 194 III 195 IV 196 V 198 VI 200 VII 203 XXII. An Idyll of the Honey-bee by John Burroughs 206 XXIII. Cut-off Copples’s by Clarence King 218 XXIV. The Théatre Francais by Henry James 229 XXV. Theocritus on Cape Cod by Hamilton Wright Mabie 245 XXVI. Colonialism in the United States by Henry Cabot Lodge 256 XXVII. New York After Pa