UNDER DISPUTE

BY
AGNES REPPLIER, Litt.D.
AUTHOR OF “POINTS OF FRICTION,” “COMPROMISES,”
“COUNTER-CURRENTS,” ETC.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1924

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

Five of the twelve essays in this volume,“To Counsel the Doubtful,”“The Happiness of Writing an Autobiography,”“The Divineness of Discontent,”“Strayed Sympathies,” and“The Battlefield of Education,” arereprinted through the courtesy of TheAtlantic Monthly; four of them, “TheMasterful Puritan,” “Are Americans aTimid People?” “Allies,” and “TheAmerican Laughs,” through the courtesyof The Yale Review; “ThePreacher at Large,” through the courtesyof The Century Magazine; “TheyHad Their Day,” through the courtesyof Harper’s Magazine; “The IdolatrousDog,” through the courtesy of TheForum.