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John Henry Newman—(Born in 1801, died in 1890.) |
I | | The Beginnings of Tractarianism. |
| | (From the "Apologia pro Vita Sua") | 3 |
II | | On His Submission to the Catholic Church. |
| | (From the "Apologia") | 7 |
III | | Of Athens as a True University. |
| | (From Volume III of the "Historical Sketches") | 13 |
Edward Bulwer Lytton—(Born in 1803, died in 1873.) |
| | The Descent of Vesuvius on Pompeii. |
| | (From "The Last Days of Pompeii") | 21 |
Lord Beaconsfield—(Born in 1804, died in 1881.) |
| | Jerusalem by Moonlight. |
| | (From "Tancred") | 31 |
Charles Merivale—(Born in 1808, died in 1893.) |
| | The Personality of Augustus Cæsar. |
| | (From the "History of the Romans Under the Empire") | 37 |
Alexander W. Kinglake—(Born in 1809, died in 1891.) |
I | | On Mocking at the Sphinx. |
| | (From "Eothen") | 42 |
II | | The Beginnings of the Crimean War. |
| | (From "The Invasion of the Crimea") | 44 |
Charles Darwin—(Born in 1809, died in 1882.) |
I | | On Variations in Mammals, Birds and Fishes. |
| | (From "The Origin of Species") | 47 |
II | | The Genesis of a Great Book. |
| | (From the "Autobiography," printed in Volume I of the "Life and Letters") | 51 |
John Brown—(Born in 1810, died in 1882.) |
| | Rab and the Game Chicken. |
| | (From "Rab and His Friends") | 56 |
William M. Thackeray—(Born in 1811, died in 1863.) |
I | | The Imperturbable Marlborough. |
| | (From "The History of Henry Esmond") | 62 |
II | | At the Ball Before the Battle of Waterloo. |
| | (From "Vanity Fair") | 65 |
III | | The Death of Colonel Newcome. |
| | (From "The Newcomes") | 75 |
IV | | London in the Time of the First George. |
| | (From the "Four Georges") | 80 |
Charles Dickens—(Born in 1812, died in 1870.) |
I | | Sidney Carton's Death. |
| | (The conclusion of "A Tale of Two Cities") | 86 |
II | | Bob Sawyer's Party. |
| | (From Chapter XXXI of "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club") | 88 |
III | | Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness. |
| | (From Chapters LVII and LVIII of "The Old Curiosity Shop") | 97 |
IV | | A Happy Return of the Day. |
| | (From Book III, Chapter IV, of "Our Mutual Friend") | 105 |
Charlotte Bronte—(Born in 1816, died in 1855.) |
| | Of the Author of "Vanity Fair." |
| | (Preface to the second edition of "Jane Eyre") | 119 |
James Anthony Froude—(Born in 1818, died in 1894.) |
I | | Of History as a Science. |
| | (From "Short Studies on Great Subjects") | 122 |
II | | The Character of Henry VIII. |
| | (From the "History of England") | 132 |
III | | Cæsar's Mission. |
| | (From the concluding chapter of "Cæsar—A Sketch") | 136 |
John Ruskin—(Born in 1819, died in 1900.) |
I | | Of the History and Sovereignty of Venice. |
| | (From Chapter I of "The Stones of Venice") | 140 |
II | | St. Mark's at Venice. |
| | (From Vol. II of "The Stones of Venice") | 151 |
III | | Of Water. |
| | (From Vol. II, Section V, of "Modern Painters") | 159 |
George Eliot—(Born in 1819, died in 1880.) |
| | At the Hall Farm. |
| | (From "Adam Bede") | 167 |
Herbert Spencer—(Born in 1820, died in 1904.) |
I | | The Origin of Professional Occupations. |
| | (From Volume III of "The Principles of Sociology") | 173 |
II | | Self-Dependence and Paternalism. |
| | (From the "Essays, Moral, Political and Esthetic") | 181 |
III | | The Ornamental and the Useful in Education. |
| | (From "Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical") | 186 |
IV | | Reminiscences of His Boyhood. |
| | (From Part I, Chapter II, of the "Autobiography") | 191 |
V | | A Tribute to E. L. Youmans. |
| | (From Part VII of the "Autobiography") | 195 |
VI | | Why He Never Married. |
| | (From Part XII of the "Autobiography") | 197 |
Henry Thomas Buckle—(Born in 1821, died in 1862.) |
I | | The Isolation of Spain. |
| | (From Vol. II, Chapter VIII, of the "History of Civilization in England") | 198 |
II | | George III and the Elder Pitt. |
| | (From Vol. I, Chapter VII, of the "History of Civilization in England") | 204 |
Matthew Arnold—(Born in 1822, died in 1888.) |
| | The Motive for Culture. |
| | (From "Culture and Anarchy") | 208 |
Edward A. Freeman—(Born in 1823, died in 1892.) |
| | The Death of William the Conqueror. |
| | (From "The History of the Norman Conquest") | 214 |
Thomas Henry Huxley—(Born in 1825, died in 1895.) |
| | On a Piece of Chalk. |
| | (From "Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews") | 219 |
Frederic Harrison—(Born in 1831.) |
| | The Great Books of the World. |
| | (From an address on "The Choice of Books") | 230 |
John Richard Green—(Born in 1837, died in 1883.) |
| | George Washington. |
| | (From Book IV, Chapter II, of the "History of the English People") | 242 |
John Morley—(Born in 1838.) |
| | Voltaire as an Author and as a Man of Action. |
| | (From "Voltaire") | 244 |
Robert Louis Stevenson—(Born in 1850, died in 1894.) |
I | | Francis Villon's Terrors. |
| | (From "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon") | 247 |
II | | The Lantern Bearers. |
| | (From "Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays") | 251 |
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