Emerson and Other Essays

Emerson and Other Essays is by John Jay Chapman. The contents list Emerson, Walt Whitman, A Study of Romeo, Michael Angelo's Sonnets, The Fourth Canto of the Inferno, Robert Browning and Robert Louis Stevenson. The Emerson essay quotes the words Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses, and calls masses rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence.

The text says the conclusion of Berkeley, that the external world is known to us only through our impressions, and that therefore, for aught we know, the whole universe exists only in our own consciousness, cannot be disproved. The text says Walt Whitman has given utterance to the soul of the tramp, and asks how often we have wondered how life appeared to one of these men sitting on a gate, or sauntering down a city street. The text names the New Arabian Nights as one of the books which established Stevenson's fame, and mentions the series of tales about Prince Florizel of Bohemia.