Representative essays
Subtitle: selected from the series of "Prose masterpieces from the modern essayist."
By: Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey ... [and others]
Contributors: Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930. ed.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: English essays
Other titles: Prose-masterpieces.
Notes: Preface signed: G.H.P. [i.e. George Haven Putnam]
Table of contents: title: The mutability of literature, by Washington Irving.; title: Imperfect sympathies, by Charles Lamb.; title: Conversation, by Thomas De Quincey.; title: Compensation, by R.W. Emerson.; title: Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold.; title: On popular culture, by John Morley.; title: On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.; title: On history, by Thomas Carlyle.; title: History, by T.B. Macaulay.; title: The science of history, by J.A. Froude.; title: Race and language, by E.A. Freeman.; title: Kin beyond sea, by W.E. Gladstone.