By Agnes Repplier COUNTER-CURRENTS. AMERICANS AND OTHERS. A HAPPY HALF-CENTURY AND OTHER ESSAYS. IN OUR CONVENT DAYS. COMPROMISES. THE FIRESIDE SPHINX. With 4 full-page and 17 text Illustrations by Miss E. BONSALL. BOOKS AND MEN. POINTS OF VIEW ESSAYS IN IDLENESS. IN THE DOZY HOURS, AND OTHER PAPERS. ESSAYS IN MINIATURE. A BOOK OF FAMOUS VERSE. Selected by Agnes Repplier. In Riverside Library for Young People. THE SAME. _Holiday Edition._ VARIA. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK [Illustration] VARIA By AGNES REPPLIER, LITT. D. [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY AGNES REPPLIER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS. PAGE THE ETERNAL FEMININE 1 THE DEATHLESS DIARY 30 GUIDES: A PROTEST 63 LITTLE PHARISEES IN FICTION 85 THE FÊTE DE GAYANT 109 CAKES AND ALE 130 OLD WINE AND NEW 155 THE ROYAL ROAD OF FICTION 185 FROM THE READER’S STANDPOINT 217 “Little Pharisees in Fiction” is reprinted by permission of the publishers from “Scribner’s Magazine,” and “From the Reader’s Standpoint” from “The North American Review” (where it was called “The Contentiousness of Modern Novel Writers”). VARIA. THE ETERNAL FEMININE.