Prose masterpieces from modern essayists
Subtitle: comprising twelve unabridged essays
By: by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman, and Gladstone ; with twelve portraits in permanent photography
Contributors: Bickers & Son
Publisher: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: English essays; Essayists; Portraits
Notes: Includes 11 woodburytypes and 1 collotype.
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Sweetness and light / by Matthew Arnold; title: On popular culture / by John Morley; title: On a certain condescension in foreigners / by James Russell Lowell; title: On history / by Thomas Carlyle; title: History / by Thomas Babington Macaulay; title: The science of history / by James Anthony Froude; title: Race and language / by Edward A. Freeman; title: Kin beyond sea / by William Ewart Gladstone.