Lectures and essays
By: by Goldwin Smith
Publisher: Copp, Clark Co., Ltd.
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Presidents; World history; Childhood and youth; Biography; Canadian essays
Notes: Previously published: Toronto : Hunter, Rose & Co. ; New York : MacMillan & Co., 1881.

Includes: The early years of Abraham Lincoln (from Toronto mail): p. 240-266.

"These essays ... were originally printed for private circulation. The demand for them afterwards let to a small edition being placed on the market. The demand continues, and in compliance with it, three hundred copies, the balance of the original edition, which were reserved, are now placed in our hands for publication."

Includes bibliographical references.

Book, bound in cloth.
Table of contents: title: The greatness of the Romans; title: The greatness of England; title: The great duel of the seventeenth century; title: The lamps of fiction (a speech on the centenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott); title: An address to the Oxford school of science and art; title: The ascent of man; title: The proposed substitutes for religion; title: The labor movement; title: What is culpable luxury?; title: A true captain of industry [Mr. Brassey]; title: A wirepuller of kings [Baron Stockmar]; title: The early years of Abraham Lincoln; title: Alfredus rex fundator; title: The last republicans of Rome; title: Austen-Leigh's memoir of Jane Austen; title: Pattison's Milton; title: Coleridge's life of Keble.