"The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays" by Alice Meynell Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist. This book contains multiple essays that take readers into Meynell's mind as she discusses topics of life through her unique perspective and the lens of her characters. It contains: The Rhythm of Life, Decivilised, A Remembrance, The Sun, The Flower, Unstable Equilibrium, The Unit of the World, By the Railway Side, Pocket Vocabularies, Pathos, The Point of Honour, Composure, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Domus Angusta, Rejection, The Lesson of Landscape, Mr. Coventry Patmore's Odes, Innocence and Experience, and Penultimate Caricature.