Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Reprinted in part from various sources The new farming generation, by C. M. Harger.--Country life problems, from the Nation.--Conditions and needs of country life, by J. M. Gillette.--The social center, by W. Wilson.--The rural reformation, by R. W. Bruère.--Problems of rural social life, by T. N. Carver.--The way to better farming and better living, by Sir H. Plunkett.--The farmer and finance, by M. T. Herrick.--The realm of the commonplace, by L. H. Bailey.--A hermit's notes on Thoreau, by P. E. More.--On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge, by T. H. Huxley.--Science (1857-1907) by H. S. Pritchett.--Conservation of natural resources, by T. Roosevelt.--Huxley, by P. E. More.--Education for efficiency, by E. Davenport.--The function and efficiency of the agricultural college, by W. H. Jordan.--A liberal education and where to find it, by T. H. Huxley.--Literature and science, by M. Arnold.--The significance of the frontier in American history, by F. J. Turner.--The fatalism of the multitude, by J. Bryce.--Traffic, by J. Ruskin.--The American scholar, by R. W. Emerson