Collected essays
By: by Augustine Birrell.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 23417.
Publisher: E. Stock
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Literature
Notes: Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1978. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 23417)

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Obiter dicta: first series (1884) Carlyle. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry. Truth-hunting. Actors. A rogue's memoirs. The via media. Falstaff. Obiter dicta: second series (1887) John Milton. Pope. Dr. Johnson. Edmund Burke. The muse of history. Charles Lamb. Emerson. The office of literature. Worn-out types. Cambridge and the poets. Book-buying.; title: v. 2. Res judicatae (1892) Samuel Richardson. Edward Gibbon. William Cowper. George Borrow. Cardinal Newman. Matthew Arnold. William Hazlitt. The letters of Charles Lamb. Authors in court. Nationality. The Reformation. Sainte-Beuve. Essays about men, women, and books (1893) Dean Swift. Lord Bolingbroke. Sterne. Dr. Johnson. Richard Cumberland. Alexander Knox and Thomas De Quincey. Hannah More. Marie Bashkirtseff. Sir John Vanbrugh. John Gay. Roger North's autobiography. Books old and new. Book-binding. Poets laureate. Parliamentary candidates. The bonâfide traveller. 'Hours in the library.' Americanisms and Briticisms. Authors and critics.