The Inn of Tranquillity (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1912 collection of twenty-six “essays and studies,” divided between “Life” and “Letters” was praised by the New York Times reviewer as “a string of the finest pearls.”  Contents include the title entry, as well as “The Black Godmother,” “Magpie Over the Hill,” “Sheep-shearing,” “Evolution,” “On Our Dislike of Things as They Are,” and “A Christian,” among others.