Representative Essays, Selected From the Series of Prose Masterpieces From the Modern Essayists. Comprising Twelve Unabridged Essays by Irving (And Others)
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York, G.P. Putnam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: English essays; Essais anglais
Other titles: Prose Masterpieces
Notes: Pref. Signed: G.H.P. <I.E. George Haven Putnam>

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Table of contents: title: Contents.- the Mutability of Literature, by W. Irving.- Imperfect Sympathies, by C. Lamb.- Conversation, by T. De Quincey.- Compensation, by R.W. Emerson.- Sweetness and Light, by M. Arnold.- on Popular Culture, by J. Morley.- on a Certain Condescension in Foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.- on History, by T. Carlyle.- History, by T.B. Macaulay.- the Science of History, by J.A. Froude.- Race and Language, by E.A. Freeman.- Kin Beyond Sea, by W.E. Gladstone.