Essays in biography and criticism.
By: By Peter Bayne.
Publisher: Gould and Lincoln; Sheldon
Published: 1871
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: value: 1st ser. Thomas De Quincey and his works.  Tennyson and his teachers.   Mrs. Barrett Browning.  Glimpses of recent British art.  Ruskin and his critics.  Hugh Miller.  The modern novel: Dickens, Bulwer, Thackeray.  Currer Bell: Ellis, Acton, Currer.; value: 2d ser. Charles Kingsley.  Thomas Babington Macaulay.  Sir Archibald Alison.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Wellington.  Napoleon Bonaparte.  Plato.  Characteristics of Christian civilization.  The modern university.  The pulpit and the press.  "The testimony of the rocks;" a defense.