Representative essays, selected from the series of "Prose masterpieces from the modern essayist."
Preface signed: G.H.P. [i.e. George Haven Putnam] The mutability of literature, by Washington Irving.--Imperfect sympathies, by Charles Lamb.--Conversation, by Thomas De Quincey.--Compensation, by R.W. Emerson.--Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold.--On popular culture, by John Morley.--On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.--On history, by Thomas Carlyle.--History, by T.B. Macaulay.--The science of history, by J.A. Froude.--Race and language, by E.A. Freeman.--Kin beyond sea, by W.E. Gladstone
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