Some eighteenth century byways and other essays
By: by John Buchan.
Publisher: W. Blackwood & Sons
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Reprints in part from Blackwood's magazine, the Atlantic monthly, the Quarterly review and the Spectator.
Table of contents: title: Prince Charles Edward.; title: Lady Louise Stuart.; title: Mr. Secretary Murray (John Murray of Broughton); title: Lord Mansfield.; title: Charles IL; title: The making of modern Scotland.; title: Castlereagh.; title: A comic Chesterfield (the eleventh earl of Buchan); title: A Scottish lady of the old school (Lady John Scott); title: The Victorian chancellors.; title: The first Lord Dudley.; title: Mr. Balfour as a man of letters.; title: John Bunyan.; title: Count Tolstoi and the idealism of war.; title: The heroic age of Ireland.; title: Rabelais.; title: Theodor Mommsen.; title: The apocalyptic style.