Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life

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Literary Italy.--Gabriel d'Annunzio--poet, pilot, and pirate.--The futurist school of Italian writers.--Giovanni Papini and the futuristic literary movement in Italy.--Two noisy Italian schoolmasters.--Improvisional Italian literature of to-day and yesterday.--Fictional biography and autobiography.--The literary mausoleum of Samuel Butler.--Saints and sinners.--Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink together.--Postbellum vagaries.--World convalescence.--Banquets and personalities.--Sentimentality and the male.--The play instinct in children.--"If a man walketh in the night, he stumbleth; but if he walketh in the day he seeth the light of this world."--The American eagle changes his perch
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