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Niagara Falls
Rupert Brooke
The poet usually is the best reporter, for he is an observer not merely accurate but imaginative, self-trained to see subtle suggestions, relations and similarities. This magnificent bit of description was written by Rupert Brooke as one of the letters sent to the Westminster Gazette describing his trip in the United States and Canada in 1913. It is included in the volume Letters from America to which Henry James contributed so affectionate and desperately
Modern Essays
Table of Contents
- Preface 11
- American Literature 23
- John Macy 23
- Mary White 52
- William Allen White 52
- Niagara Falls 64
- Rupert Brooke 64
- The Almost Perfect State 77
- Don Marquis 77
- I 80
- II 87
- The Market 110
- William Mcfee 110
- Holy Ireland 120
- Joyce Kilmer 120
- A Familiar Preface 141
- Joseph Conrad 141
- On Drawing 160
- A. P. Herbert 160
- The Mowing Of A Field 191
- Hilaire Belloc 191
- The Student Life 215
- William Osler 215
- The Decline Of The Drama 241
- Stephen Leacock 241
- America And The English Tradition 254
- Harry Morgan Ayres 254
- The Russian Quarter 264
- Thomas Burke 264
- A Word For Autumn 283
- A. A. Milne 283
- The Precept Of Peace 353
- Louise Imogen Guiney 353
- On Lying Awake At Night 369
- Stewart Edward White 369
- A Woodland Valentine 379
- Marian Storm 379
- The Elements Of Poetry 387
- George Santayana 387
- Nocturne 394
- Simeon Strunsky 394
- Beer And Cider 405
- George Saintsbury 405
- A Free Man's Worship 419
- Bertrand Russell 419
- Some Historians 442
- Philip Guedalla 442
- Winter Mist 460
- Robert Palfrey Utter 460
- Trivia 470
- Logan Pearsall Smith 470
- Beyond Life 482
- James Branch Cabell 482
- The Fish Reporter 501
- Robert Cortes Holliday 501
- Some Nonsense About A Dog 525
- Harry Esty Dounce 525
- Footnotes: 556
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