Prose masterpieces from modern essayists.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: English essays -- 19th century
Notes: Reprint of the 1915 ed.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The mutability of literature, by W. Irving. The world of books, by L. Hunt. Imperfect sympathies, by C. Lamb. Conversation, by T. De Quincy. Petition of the Thugs for toleration, by W. S. Landor. The benefits of Parliament, by W. S. Landor. Fallacies of anti-reformers, by S. Smith. Nil nisi bonum, by W. M. Thackeray. Compensation, by R. W. Emerson. Sweetness and light, by M. Arnold. On popular culture, by J. Morley.; title: v. 2. On the art of living with others, by A. Helps. My winter garden, by C. Kingsley. Work, by J. Ruskin. On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J. R. Lowell. On history, by T. Carlyle. History, by T. B. Macaulay.; title: v. 3. The science of history, by J. A. Froude. Race and language, by E. A. Freeman. Kin beyond sea, by W. E. Gladstone. Private judgement, by J. H. Newman. An apology for plainspeaking, by L. Stephen.