Table of Contents:
  • Thackeray, W. M. Jonathan Swift
  • Newman, J. H. The idea of a university
  • Arnold, M. The study of poetry
  • Ruskin, J. Sesame and lilies
  • Bagehot, W. John Milton
  • Huxley, T. H. Science and culture
  • Freeman, E. A. Race and language
  • Stevenson, R. L. Truth of intercourse. Samuel Pepys
  • Channing, W. E. On the elevation of the laboring classes
  • Poe, E. A. The poetic principle
  • Thoreau, H. D. Walking
  • Lowell, J. R. Abraham Lincoln. Democracy.