LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The Journal of a Brave and Talented Girl

HENRY GEORGE
The Troubles of a Job Printer

JACOB RIIS
"The Making of an American"

WILLIAM H. RIDEING
Rejected Manuscripts

HELEN ADAMS KELLER
How She Learned to Speak




JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

(1712-1778)

THE MAN TO WHOM EXPRESSION WAS TRAVAIL

From the "Confessions of Rousseau."

It is strange to hear that those critics who spoke of Rousseau's
"incomparable gift of expression," of his "easy, natural style," were
ludicrously incorrect in their allusions. From his "Confessions" we