n Policy_ Frederic C. Howe 31

_A New Relationship between Capital
and Labor_ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 42

_My Uncle_ Alvin Johnson 48

_When a Man Comes to Himself_ Woodrow Wilson 53

_Education through Occupations_ William Lowe Bryan 68

_The Fallow_ John Agricola 81

_Writing and Reading_ John Matthews Manly and
Edith Rickert 87

_James Russell Lowell_ Bliss Perry 94

_The Education of Henry Adams_ Carl Becker 109

_The Struggle for an Education_ Booker T. Washington 119

_Entering Journalism_ Jacob A. Riis 128

_Bound Coastwise_ Ralph D. Paine 135

_The Democratization of the Automobile_
Burton J. Hendrick 145

_Traveling Afoot_ John Finley 157

_Old Boats_ Walter Prichard Eaton 165

_Zeppelinitis_ Philip Littell 177

TO
E., C., AND H.
STUDENTS AND FRIENDS

PREFACE

As the reader, if he wishes, may discover without undue delay, the little
volume of modern prose selections that he has before him is the result of
no ambitious or pretentious design. It is not a collection of the best
things that have lately been known and thought in the American world; it is
not an anthology in which "all our best authors" are represented by
striking or celebrated passages. The editor planned nothing either so
precious or so eclectic. His purpose rather was to bring together some
twenty examples of typical contemporary prose, in which writers who know
whereof they write discuss certain present-day themes in readable fashion.
In choosing material he has sought to include nothing merely because of the
name of the author, and he has demanded of each selection that it should be
of such a character, both in subject and style, as to impress normal and
wholesome Americans as well worth reading.

The earlier selections--President Roosevelt's noble eulogy upon Lincoln,
Secretary Lane's two addresses on American tradition