Studies new and old
By: by W. L. Courtney.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, Ltd.
Published: 1888
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: "The majority of the essays which follow were published in the Fortnightly review.  The first and last appeared in the Edinburgh review, and the paper on 'Jacqueline Pascal' in Time."- Prefatory note.
Table of contents: title: Hobbes.- Studies in the prophetic nature: Carlyle's political doctrines. Emerson, as thinker and writer.- Hawthorne's romances.- "Robert Browning, writer of plays."- Mr. Swinburne's poetry.- Charles Reade's novels.- A royal blue-stocking: Descartes and the Princes Elizabeth.- Pascal the sceptic.- Jacqueline Pascal.- The service of man and the service of Christ.