The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell (Volume 8); Latest Literary Essays (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... Railroad journey, effects of, 1, 75. Railroads, American, 4, 82. Railroads, Italian, how planned and built, i, 179. Rain, signs of, 1, 88, 92; ride to Subiaco in, 212. Rainbow, across the waterfall at Tivoli, 1, 154; Vaughan on, 295. Rainy day indoors at Kineo, Maine, 1, 92. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 3, 232; 4, 27 on writing modern history, 4, 282 n; 7, 71. Rambaldi, Benvemito. See Benve-nuto. Ramesey, Dr. William, on the Ger-man tongue and worms, 7, 311. Ramler, Karl Wilhelm, 4, 131; on Lessing's dangerous way of speaking his opinion, 133; Fors-ter on, 134 n. Ramsay, Allan, 4, 156. Randolph, Robert, 2, 342. Rantoul, Robert, 7, 189. Raphael, 3, 288. Raspberries the solace of the pedes-trian, 1, 269. Ravenna, Dante at, 5, 22, 24. Raymond, Mr., at the Philadelphia convention, 6, 33. Raynouard's Lexique roman cited, 2, 365. Reaction, 6, 156, 220. Reading, the habit tyrannical, 1, 9 3; lack of, in Rome, 185; browsing, 4, 123; the world of thought opened to us by, 7, 102; the choice of, 103; illustrated bv the Wallachian legend of Bakala, 103; its influence on character, 104; the way to read, 104; desultory reading unprofit-able, 105; harmfulness of read-ing newspaper gossip, 106; at-tention to the supreme books or to one great author recommended, iO"; desultory reading the only way in which time may be pro-fitably wasted, 108; Bacon on the method and purpose of, 108; value of translations of foreign literature, i11. See also, Books. Ready-made Ag' the, 1, 114. Ready-made clothes, reason of the demand for, 1, 114. Real, the, distinguished from the actual, 7, 98. Real Presence typifies the secret of the power of the Roman Church, i, 229. Real property, 7, 97. Realism in Dante, 5, 52. Realistic novel invented by Fielding, 7 74. Realistic school, imaginative crea-tio...