The Tempo of Modern LifeBoD – Books on Demand, 2020 M02 21 - 348 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1931. |
Contents
Values and Standards | ii |
Our Changing Characteristics | 34 |
Diminishing Returns in Modern Life | 55 |
The Tempo of Modern Life | 75 |
Kensington Gardens and Lafayette | 101 |
Emerson ReRead | 127 |
Sweetness and LightSixty Years | 148 |
New Modes in Biography | 171 |
Biography as an Art | 187 |
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