Vol. VI—Great Britain and Ireland—IV

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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