Excerpt from A Modern Outlook: Studies of English and American Tendencies The Essays which comprise this volume have appeared at intervals during the last three years in the section of T fie Nation entitled Life and Letters, ' and I am indebted to the Editor for permission to republish them. Most of them are social or literary studies, sometimes suggested by passing events or by some new book of more than ordinary note; others are concerned with philosophical or religious problems in their more popular bearings, while a few are dis tinctly political. For convenience they have been grouped under headings suggested by a certain affinity of subject-matter; articles dealing with American life, some speculations upon the Women's Movement, discussions of the present and the future of British Christianity are gathered into separate com partments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.