Excerpt from Essays on Modern Novelists 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 [venn - American Re view, those on Mrs. Ward and Rudyard Kip ling, in the Forum; those on Alfred Ollivant, bjornstjerne Bj'ornson, and Novels as a Uni versity Study, in the Independent. The same magazine contained a portion of the present essay on Lorna Doone, while the article on The Teacher's Attitude toward Contemporary Liter ature was written for, the a'cago Interior. My friend, Mr. Andrew Keogh, Reference Librarian of Yale University, has been kind enough to pre pare the List of Publications, thereby increasing my debt to him for many previous favours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.