Collected essays.
Edition: [1st AMS ed.]
Series: The Shrewsbury edition of the works of Samuel Butler, v. 18-19
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: Reprint of the 1925 ed.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Introduction to the Shrewsbury edition by H. F. Jones and A. T. Bartholomew. Introduction to "Essays on life, art, and science," by R. A. Streatfeild. Extract from the introduction to "The humour of Homer, and other essays," by R. A. Streatfeild. God the known and God the unknown. A clergyman's doubts. Life and habit, vol. 2. On the genesis of feeling. On knowing what gives us pleasure. Proficiency and originality. The subdivision of the organic world into animal and vegetable. Croesus's kitchen-maid.; title: v. 2. The deadlock in Darwinism. Thought and language. How to make the best of life. Quis desiderio...? The aunt, the nieces, and the dog. Ramblings in Cheapside. Portraits of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. The Sanctuary of Montrigone. L'affaire Holbein-Rippel. A medieval girl school (Oropa) Art in the Valley of Saas. The humour of Homer. Was the Odyssey written by a woman? The "Works and days" of Hesiod translated.