Title: Modern English essays ...
Authors: Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946,; Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946,
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons ltd.; E.P. Dutton & Co.,
Year: 1922
Subjects: English essays.; English literature History and criticism
Contents: v. 1. Montaigne (Mark Pattison) A word about Spinoza (Matthew Arnold) A sensitive agitator (Walter Bagehot) "A charm of birds" (Charles Kingsley) Old age (R.W. Emerson) Thoreau (J.R. Lowell) John Stuart Mill's "Autobiography" (R.H. Hutton) An English gnostic ("The Spectator") About Rymer and his Fœdera" ("The Athenæum") Walter Savage Landor (A.C. Swinburne) Notes on Leonard da Vinci (Walter Pater) The romance of the peerage (Frederic Harrison) Christopher Marlowe (Edward Dowden) -- v. 2. Carlyle (Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell) Gay's Fables (Austin Dobson) The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Andrew Lang) A cynic's apology (Leslie Stephen) Cats (Edmond Gosse) Christopher Smart (Edmund Gosse) A belt of asteroids (E.C. Stedman) Faistaff (George Radford) Ramblings in Cheapside (Samuel Butler) Walking tours, (R.L. Stevenson) Goldsmith (Austin Dobson) A transiator of Plato's "Republic" (Richard Garnett) Hugh Latimer (H.C. Beeching) The poets' poet (J.W. Hales) --^