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Rh in Song," poem (1886); "Poetry as a Representative Art" (1886); "The Genesis of Art Form" (1893); "The Speaker" and "The Writer" (1893); "Art in Theory" and "Pictures in Verse" (1894); "Rhythm and Harmony together with Music as a Representative Art" and "Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts" (1895); "Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture" (1899); "The Representative Significance of Form," "The Aztec God and Other Dramas" (1900), and "The Essentials of Esthetics" (1906).

He was married August 29, 1872, to Mary Elizabeth Blake of Philadelphia, and they have one but child living, a daughter. The books that have been most helpful in fitting him for his profession, Professor Raymond enumerates as the Bible, Milton, Shakespeare, Emerson, Tennyson, Goethe, and works on philosophy, criticism and history of all kinds. The road to success to which he points the young American is: "To make himself and his work indispensable on account of qualities connected with his own individuality. He must be able—or seem to be able—to contribute something to life; if to physical life, through his own strength or diligence; if to intellectual life, through his own conceptions or convictions; if to spiritual life, through his own considerateness or courtesy; if to life in general, through being, in the practical sense of the term, a Christian, harmless as a dove but wise as a serpent, outwardly gentlemanly toward all but inwardly cautious in the presence of the envious and the hostile. Some suppose that the American, being a business man, has a sordid, self-seeking ideal, and that to be successful a man must form himself on selfish ideals and by selfish maxims. But the career of President McKinley alone, would be sufficient to prove this supposition false."