Lectures and essays

viii, 336 pages ; 23 cm At head of title: Printed for private circulation 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 -- A wirepuller of kings -- The early years of the conqueror of Quebec -- Falkland and the Puritans -- The early years of Abraham Lincoln -- Alfreds Rex Fundator -- The last republicans of Rome -- Austen-Leigh's memoir of Jane Austen -- Pattison's Milton -- Coleridge's life of Keble