Literary studies
By: by the late Walter Bagehot, with a prefatory memoir, ed. by Richard Holt Hutton.
Contributors: Hutton, Richard Holt, 1826-1897, ed.
Publisher: Longmans, Green
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Several of the essays were published by Mr. Bagehot in "Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen"; many others are republished from the National review, the Fortnightly review, the Contemporary review, and the Economist.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Preliminary memoir.  The first Edinburgh reviewers (l855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare; title: the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (l855) Appendix : Letters on the French coup d'état of 1851 (1852) Cæsarism as it existed in 1856. Memoir of the Right Hon. James Wilson (1860); title: v. 2. Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (l858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (l857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862)  Henry Crabb Robinson (1869)  On the emotion of conviction (1871) The metaphysical basis of toleration (1874) The Public worship regulation bill (1874)