BRET HARTE AS A PARODIST

With a Note on Nationalism in Literature

THE PURPOSE OF BIOGRAPHY

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WHAT is biography for? What useful purpose does it serve? Why should one write it? What is its actual importance in the field of literature? Above all, what is autobiography for, and what proper motive might one have for writing it?’

THE KING’S JESTER:
MODERN STYLE

ALAS, POOR YORICK!

An Apology for the Human Race

IF ONLY—

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EPSTEAN’S LAW

A FEW DAYS after Mr. Willkie’s nomination I happened to see a published statement from him in which he flatly accused Mr. Roosevelt of promoting the idea of Statism; that is to say, the idea that the individual exists for the State. He said that he himself believed the exact opposite of this; he believed that the State exists for the individual. Mr. Willkie added that this issue—the issue of individualism versus Statism—was the issue on which he intended to make his campaign.

SUNDAY IN BRUSSELS

To Munson Havens

MY DEAR FRIEND:

You are a charming correspondent, fully entitled to a leather medal, because you never ask any fool questions. You have never even asked me what I think about the international situation and the chance of war, which is Fool Question No. I. Just for that, I am now going to uncork all the inside information which I have been picking up at great expense in the various European chancelleries these last six months, and much good may it do you.

THE THEORY OF EDUCATION

IN THE UNITED STATES

BY ALBERT JAY NOCK

THE PAGE-BARBOUR LECTURES FOR 1931
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

NEW YORK