Three centuries of English essays
Subtitle: from Francis Bacon to Max Beerbohm
By: edited by V.H. Collins ...
Contributors: Collins, Vere H. b. 1872 ed.; Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.; Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936.; Harris, Donald G., donor.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; H. Milford
Published: 1941
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: English essays.
Notes: "First published 1931. Reprinted 1933 (twice), ... 1941."

Burns Library copy: gift of Donald G. Harris.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Of friendship / Francis Bacon; value: Sir Roger at church. Meditations in Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison; value: Beau Tibbs, a character. To the printer / by Oliver Goldsmith; value: Christ's Hospital five- and-thirty years ago. The convalescent / Charles Lamb; value: The Indian jugglers / William Hazlitt; value: The English mail-coach / Thomas De Quincy; value: On getting up on cold mornings / James Henry Leigh Hunt; value: Boscastle / Walter Bagehot; value: Walking tours / Robert Louis Stevenson; value: The little river / Hilaire Belloc; value: On lying in bed / Gilbert Keith Chesterton; value: On good resolutions / Robert Lynd; value: Rain / Edward Thomas; value: On going back to school / Max Beerbohm; value: Notes.