Nineteenth century questions.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 19th century; Literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Reprint of the 1897 ed.
Table of contents: title: Literary studies: Lyric and dramatic elements in literature and art. Dualism in national life. Did Shakespeare write Bacon's works? The evolution of a great poem: Gray's elegy.; title: Religious and philosophical: Affinities of Buddhism and Christianity. Why I am not a free-religionist. Have animals souls? Apropos of Tyndall. Law and design in nature.; title: Historical and biographical: The two Carlyles, or Carlyle past and present. Buckle and his theory of averages. Voltaire. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harriet Martineau. The rise and fall of the slave power in America.