Great books as life-teachers
Subtitle: studies of character, real and ideal
By: by Newell Dwight Hillis.
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Character
Table of contents: value: The new times, and the poets and essayists as prophets of a new era.-  John Ruskin's "Seven lamps of architecture" as interpreters of the seven laws of life ...-  George Eliot's Tito, in "Romola" ...- Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter" and the retributive workings of conscience ...-  Victor Hugo's "Les miserables".-  Tennyson's "Idylls of the king".- The tragedy of the ten-talent men; a study of Browning's "Saul".-  The memoirs of Henry Drummond, and the dawn of an era of friendship between science and religion.-  The opportunities of leisure and wealth; an outlook upon the life of Lord Shaftesbury.-  The biography of Frances Willard, and the heroes of social reform.-  Blaikie's life of David Livingstone; a study of nineteenth-century heroism.-  The Christian scholar in politics; a study of the life of William Ewart Gladstone.