 Alexander’s writing on art falls into two kinds. First, there are essays on literature and art. These are all reprinted in Alexander’s (1939), and cover a wide range of topics: from the art of Jane Austen, to the writings of Pascal, to the origin of the creative impulse. Second, there are the pieces comprising Alexander’s account of value. Alexander’s early interest in ethics—exemplified in his first monograph (1889)—survived in his later work as a preoccupation with the nature of value, albeit with a focus on the aesthetic value of beauty. Alexander’s (1920) contained several chapters on the nature of value, and he goes on to supplement these with further papers on the same theme. These include “Naturalism and Value”, and “Value”, both reprinted in Alexander’s Philosophical and Literary Pieces (1939); and “Morality as An Art” (1928). These papers culminate in another monograph, Beauty and Other Forms of Value (1933), Alexander’s most important work on the topic. His writings on value are of greater philosophic interest than those on literature and art.