Representative essays, selected from the series of "Prose masterpieces from modern essayists."
Subtitle: Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey ... [and others]
Contributors: Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons for the Chautauqua Press, C.L.S.C. Department
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: English essays.
Other titles: Prose masterpieces.
Notes: "Chautauqua edition."

Preface signed: G.H.P. [i.e. George Haven Putnam].
Table of contents: value: The mutability of literature, by Washington Irving.; value: Imperfect sympathies, by Charles Lamb.; value: Conversation, by Thomas De Quincey.; value: Compensation, by R.W. Emerson.; value: Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold.; value: On popular culture, by John Morley.; value: On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.; value: On history, by Thomas Carlyle.; value: History by T.B. Macaulay.; value: The science of history, by J.A. Froude.; value: Race and language, by E.A. Freeman.; value: Kin beyond sea, by W.E. Gladstone.