Lectures and essays
1881
viii, 336 p. 23 cm At head of title: Printed for private circulation "All the papers have been revised, so that they do not appear here exactly as they were in the periodicals from which they are reprinted."--Prefatory note The greatness of the Romans.--The greatness of England.--The great duel of the seventeenth century.--The lamps of fiction; a speech on the centenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott.--An address to the Oxford school of science and art.--The ascent of man.--The proposed substitutes for religion.--The labour movement.--What is culpable luxury?--A true captain of industry [Mr. Brassey]--A wirepuller of kings [Baron Stockmar]--The early years of Abraham Lincoln.--Alfredus rex fundator.--The last republicans of Rome.--Austen-Leigh's memoir of Jane Austen.--Pattison's Milton.--Coleridge's life of Keble committed to retain 20170930
