The choice of books
Subtitle: and other literary pieces
By: By Frederic Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Books and reading; Literature
Table of contents: title: The choice of books (partly from Fortnightly review, April 1879): I. How to read. II. Poets of the old world. III. Poets of the modern world. IV. The misuse of books; title: Culture: a dialogue (Fortn. rev., Nov. 1867); title: Past and present: a letter to Mr. Ruskin [in reply to one ... published in Fors clavigera for June 1876] (Fortn. rev., July 1876); title: The romance of the peerage: Lothair (Fortn. rev., June 1870; title: Froude's Life of Carlyle (North Amer. rev., Jan. 1885); title: The life of George Eliot [George Eliot's life ... Ed. by her husband, J. W. Cross, 1885] (Fortn. rev., March 1885); title: Historic London (Macmillan's mag., Apr. 1884); title: Opening of the courts of justice (The Times, Dec. 1882); title: A plea for the Tower of London (The Times, July 1883); title: The aesthete (Pall Mall gazette, May 1882); title: At Burlington house (Pall Mall gazette May 1882); title: Bernard of Clairvaux [review of Morison's Life and times of St. Bernard. 1863]; title: A few words about the eighteenth century (Nineteenth cent., March 1883); title: Histories of the French revolution (North Amer. rev., Oct. 1883); title: A few words about the nineteenth century (Fortn. rev., April 1882)