1906. A collection of essays by Torrey, writer and naturalist. Contents: William Hazlitt; Edward FitzGerald; Thoreau; Thoreau's Demand upon Nature; Robert Louis Stevenson; A Relish of Keats; Anatole France; Verbal Magic; Quotability; The Grace of Obscurity; In Defense of the Traveler's Notebook; and Concerning the Lack of an American Literature.