My Literary Passions

The sort of autobiography of which 'My Literary Passions' is an example is always interesting. Mr. Howells is by no means the first to write upon the theme of "Books Which Have Influenced Me", but we do not just now think of anyone before him who has made it the subject of a whole volume. Mr. Howells has had many "literary passions"— fifty, or thereabouts, to reckon only from the chapter headings—...