Pages from an old volume of life a collection of essays, 1857-1881
by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- Boston New York Houghton, Mifflin and company 1899.
- 3 p. l., [v]-vi, 433 p. illus. 20 cm.
- The writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. [Riverside ed.] ... vol. VIII .
Bread and the newspaper.--My hunt after "The Captain".--The inevitable trial.--The physiology of walking.--The seasons.--The human body and its management.--Cinders from the ashes.--Mechanism in thought and morals.--The physiology of versification.--Crime and automatism.--Jonathan Edwards.--The pulpit and the pew.