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 THE MODERN STUDENT’S LIBRARY

Each volume edited with an introduction by a leading American authority

This series is composed of such works as are conspicuous in the province of literature for their enduring influence. Every volume is recognized as essential to a liberal education and will tend to in- fuse a love for true literature and an appreciation of the qualities which cause it to endure.

A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMAC RIVERS

By Henry Davin ToorEav With an Introduction by

ODELL SHEPARD Professor of English at Trinity College

. “,.., Here was a man who stood with his head in the clouds, perhaps, but with his feet firmly planted on rubble and grit. He was true to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. Thoreau’s eminently practical thought was really concerned, in the last anal- ysis with definite human problems. The major question how to live was at the end of all his vistas.”

EMERSON’S ESSAYS Selected and edited, with an Introduction, by

ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN Professor of English and Dean of the College University of Pennsylvania

“* Among the shifting values in our literary history, Emerson stands secure. Asa people we are rather prone to underestimate our native writers in relation to English and continental authors, but even among those who have been content to treat our literature as a by-

“product of British letters, Emrson’s significance has become only more apparent with time.”