Prose masterpieces from modern essayists .
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1883
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: English essays; English prose literature
Notes: Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 1985. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The mutability of literature, by W. Irving. The world of books, by Leigh Hunt. Imperfect sympathies, by Charles Lamb. Conversation, by Thomas De Quincey. Petition of the thugs for toleration, by Walter Savage Landor. The benefits of Parliament, by Walter Savage Landor. Fallacies of anti-reformers, by Sydney Smith. Nil nisi bonum, by William Makepeace Thackeray. Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold. On popular culture, by John Morley.; title: v. 2. On the art of living with others, by Arthur Helps. My winter garden, by Charles Kingsley. Our best society, by George William Curtis. On a certain condenscension in foreigners, by James Russell Lowell. On history, by Thomas Carlyle. History, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.; title: v. 3. The science of history, by James Anthony Froude. Race and language, by Edward A. Freeman. Kin beyond sea, by William Ewart Gladstone. Private judgment, by John Henry Newman. An apology for plainspeaking, by Leslie Stephen.