Inquiries And Opinions

James Brander Matthews was born in New York in 1852. He was an American author and educator. Matthews was the first American Professor of dramatic literature. Matthews went to Columbia Law School and later taught literature at Columbia. Essays ncluded in this volume are Literature in the New Century, The Supreme Leaders, An Apology for Technic, Old Friends with New Faces, Invention and Imagination, Poe and the Detective-story, Mark Twain, A Note on Maupassant, The Modern Novel and the Modern Play, The Literary Merit of our Latter-day Drama, Ibsen the Playwright, and The Art of the Stage-manager