Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers ….

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it..

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies..

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, exc….

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity..

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to..

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia an….

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the….

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing thro….

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions tha….