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C O N T E N T SIntroduction to the T ransaction Edition ixLights and Shades of Spanish Character iAre the English C ritical? 21Matthew A rnold 48Croce and the Philosophy of the Flux 66Pascal 73Racine and the Anti-Romantic Reaction 89T he Bicentenary of Diderot 105George Sand and Flaubert 12 iA Century of Indian Epigrams 141Interpreting India to the West 150T he Problem of Style in a Democracy 170Humanist and Specialist 183President Eliot and American Education 198What I Believe: Rousseau and Religion 225Bibliography of the Publications ofIrving Babbitt 249Index to the Collected Works ofIrving Babbitt 261

"Sixth impression, September, 1939." ; Bibliography: p.[337]-344. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless other thinkers, such as T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, and George Will. By providing for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, this collection gets to the heart of their intellectual project, revealing from an insider's perspective the true goals of New Humanism"--