Works
- Literature and the American College (1908)
- The New Laokoön (1910)
- The Masters of Modern French Criticism (1912)
- Rousseau and Romanticism (1919)
- Democracy and Leadership (1924)
- On Being Creative (1932)
- The Dhammapada (1936) translator, with essay
- Spanish Character, and other essays (1940) reprinted as Character & Culture: Essays on East and West
- Representative Writings (ed. George A. Panichas, 1981),
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