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Bibliographic Details
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1970]
Series:	Essay index reprint series
Subjects:	English essays > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

v. 1. The mutability of literature, by W. Irving. The world of books, by L. Hunt. Imperfect sympathies, by C. Lamb. Conversation, by T. De Quincy. Petition of the Thugs for toleration, by W. S. Landor. The benefits of Parliament, by W. S. Landor. Fallacies of anti-reformers, by S. Smith. Nil nisi bonum, by W. M. Thackeray. Compensation, by R. W. Emerson. Sweetness and light, by M. Arnold. On popular culture, by J. Morley
v. 2. On the art of living with others, by A. Helps. My winter garden, by C. Kingsley. Work, by J. Ruskin. On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J. R. Lowell. On history, by T. Carlyle. History, by T. B. Macaulay
v. 3. The science of history, by J. A. Froude. Race and language, by E. A. Freeman. Kin beyond sea, by W. E. Gladstone. Private judgement, by J. H. Newman. An apology for plainspeaking, by L. Stephen.

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