The idea that literature contains multitudes is not new. For the greater part of its history, lit(t)eratura referred to any writing formed with letters. Up until the eighteenth century, the only true ...

READING, some time ago, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, I came upon this sentence: ‘Democracy is full of menace to the finer hopes of civilization.’ The idea, of course, is not a new one, and ...

AS one looks forward to the America of fifty years hence, the main source of anxiety appears to be in a probable excess of prosperity, and in the want of a good grievance. We seem nearly at the end of ...