THE ESSAYS OF
OF ELIA

YOARBL

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

HELEN J. ROBINS

TEACHER OF ENGLISH IN MISS BALDWIN'S SCHOOL

BRYN MAWR

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO.. LTD.

1909

All rights reserved

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Set

COPYRIGHT, 1905,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

up and electrotyped. Published August, 1905. Reprinted
August, 1906; March, 1907; April, 1908; January, 1909.

CONTENTS

MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST

INTRODUCTION.

ESSAYS: FIRST SERIES

THE SOUTH-SEA HOUSE .

OXFORD IN THE VACATION

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO

THE TWO RACES OF MEN

NEW YEAR'S EVE .

A CHAPTER ON EARS

A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE ME-