Essays of British Essayists, Vol II including biographical and critical sketches
Introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather
- New York P.F. Collier & Son 1900
- 456 p.
- World's Greatest Literature .
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Volume 2. Charles Lamb : Imperfect sympathies ; All-Fools' Day ; Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist ; Dream children: a reverie -- Walter Savage Landor : Petition of the thugs for toleration ; The benefits of Parliament -- William Hazlitt : The sick chamber ; Of persons one would wish to have seen -- Leigh Hunt : The world of books ; Deaths of little children -- Thomas de Quincey : Conversation (first essay) ; Conversation (second essay) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley : A defence of poetry -- Thomas Carlyle : On history -- Thomas Babington Macaulay : Machiavelli ; Milton -- Douglas Jerrold : Recollections of Guy Fawkes -- William Makepeace Thackeray : Nil nisi bonum -- Arthur Helps : On the art of living with others -- James Anthony Froude : The science of history -- John Ruskin : Painting, a language ; The sublime in architecture ; Man's use and function -- Charles Kingsley : My winter garden -- Herbert Spencer : The collective wisdom ; Gracefulness -- Matthew Arnold : Sweetness and light -- Edward Augustus Freeman : Race and language -- Thomas Henry Huxley : Science and culture -- Sir John Lubbock : Love ; Ambition.