Essays on Modern Novelists

PREFACE

Some of the essays in this volume have appeared in recent numbers of various periodicals. The essays on "Mark Twain" and "Thomas Hardy" were originally printed in the _North American Review_; those on "Mrs. Ward" and "Rudyard Kipling," in the _Forum_; those on "Alfred Ollivant," "Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson," and "...