Essay and general literature index reprint series

P.G. Wodehouse's adaptation of Jatek a Kastelyban (The Play in the Castle) brings Ferenc Molnar's classic comedy to a wider audience. The play is a romantic farce without the usual door-slamming and comic entrances and exits. Instead, we are treated to a party of guests seemingly overhearing a lover's tryst, only to find (with the help of a very quick-witted playwright) that they are actually hearing something very different. The play combines beautifully formed characters with an exquisite text.

This little book contains the final conclusion of a veteran historian whose life has been devoted to the currents of thought and feeling in the history of man's endeavor to realize whatever he has conceived as best. Dr. Taylor treats endeavor as the real human story, since endeavor is the man himself, his true attainment, while any palpable results are seldom in his control and usually extend beyond his ken. This story manifests itself in all manner of relations and continuities, physical and spiritual. It carries the purport and meaning of the world and is for us the least ambiguous expression of the will of God. The first chapter of the book stresses the continunity of the individual in himself; the second traces and analyzes continuities in history; the third considers the effect of personal choice and approval upon cosmic conceptions and the consciousness of self; the fourth is an imaginative illustration of these principles in the person of an ancient poet; and the fifth applies them to a fairly definite historical period. - Publisher's Note.

First published 1935 by Harper.

“Contents: Mark Twain; Henry Adams; Sidney Lanier; James McNeill Whistler; James Gillespie Blaine; Grover Cleveland; Henry James; Joseph Jefferson. Mr. Bradford is a master in the new school of psychographic biography—that type of biography which pictures its subjects as vital and intensely human personalities reacting in a natural way to the conditions peculiar to their time and position. He writes gracefully and entertainingly, has sympathy and discrimination, and is unquestionably accurate.” – – A.L.A.Catalog 1926

Moods and Truths corrects the erroneous judgments of the twentieth century regarding the proper role of religion in the pursuit of happiness and development of a properly ordered society. The critique, however, is not simply a matter of negation. Sheen fills up what is lacking in the modern mood with the imperative, invigorating truths of the Good News. First published in 1932, Moods and Truths shines with the celebrated wit and wisdom of its author, as Sheen redirects the mind and heart of modern man away from passing things and toward the truths that eternally endure. “In a world that is constantly looking for new faiths, new religions, and new creeds, there could be nothing more new or novel than to begin to practice and live the Truths of Christianity.” (Fulton J. Sheen)

Volume 1 of 2.