Selected modern English essays for college students

1.chinese and western civilization contrasted
　bertrand russell
2.rivalry
　e.v.lucas
3.the successful doctor
　george bernard shaw
4.leisure
　vernon lee
5.poetry and university education
　arthur quiller-couch
6.a relic
　max beerbohm
7.from the mouse's point of view
　lord dunsany
8.romance
　w.somerset maugham
9.on being hard up
　jerome k.jerome
10.confidence
　joseph conrad
.11.the drawing-room
　mary e.coleridge
12.evolution
　john galsworthy
13.on poverty
　hilaire belloc
14.on destroying books
　j.c.squire
15.the patron and the crocus
　virginia woolf
16.fog
　g.s.street
17.fact and fiction
　john middleton murry
18.her own village
　w.h.hudson
19.signs of character
　a.a.milne
20.the wife
　h.v.morton
21.conversation
　a.c.benson
22.the return from siwa
　e.m.forster
23.on running after one's hat
　g.k.chesterton
24.the rose
　logan pearsall smith
25.sunday before the war
　a.clutton-brock
26.laughter in court
　beverley nichols
27.the traveller's eye view
　aldous huxley
28.fifield ashes
　maurice henry hewlett
29.the barber
　arnold bennett
30.marriage
　y.y.
31.set free
　r.b.cunninghame graham
32.this england
　edward thomas
33.on man's extravagance
　j.b.priestley
34.actors
　augustine birrell
35.an afternoon walk in october
　william hale white
36.on talking to one's self
　a.g.gardiner
37.cloud
　alice meynell
38.selections from the private papers of henry ryecroft
　george gissing
39.boswell's life of johnson
　george gordon
40.bed-books and night-lights
　h.m.tomlinson
appendix
　1.the english essayist
　　john freeman
　2.the art of the essayist
　　a.c.benson
　3.the defects of english prose
　　arthur clutton-brock