Essay Lit from Google Books

Herein is my personal catalog of reference and other books of particular interest to me that have been scanned and made available in PDF format via Google Books. They've proved a really marvelous resource, and one which is getting steadily better, larger and more useful. While it's handy and convenient to let them store the things so they'll be at your fingertips whenever you're on the web, a cautionary type might want to download copies of at least the ones of most interest. Google is a corporation, with more rights - thanks to Big Tony and the Supremes - and less responsibilities than these anachronisms we call individuals, and they can do whatever they bloody well want to at any time they want to do it.

This is all here because either I can't figure out how to use the tools Google Books provides to do this, or their tools are insufficient and overly fussy. I'm betting the latter.

Feel free to borrow any or all of this, with the understanding that an attribution will keep the karma dogs off your ass.

On a technical note, I've attempted to extract informative or at least entertaining bits from the prefaces or other parts of some of the books. These will appear in this differently colored format which, thankfully, at least isn't blinking. These extracts may contain extraneous artifacts from Google's OCR rendering of the PDF scans into text that I've been too lazy to fix.

On another technical note, I'll occasionally add reviews, comments, etc. from sources external to the books, which will added in a wee font like this.

On a really annoying technical note, some entries will be shown in blue. These are so indicated because they exist and should - by any reading of copyright law not involving Sonny Bono and DisneyCorp - be available. Their non-availability makes me blue in the Buddy Guy way.

If you feel you must get in touch with me so you can send me mint copies of any or all of the books listed below, then send some electrons to baum@stommel.tamu.edu.

ESSAYS

META

Viewpoints in Essays (1922, 67) - Marion Horton

English Essayists: A Reader's Handbook (1916, 217) - William Hawley Davis

The English Essay and Essayist (1915, 343) - Hugh Walker

Later Essayists: With a Bibliography (1921, 28) - George Sidney Hellman

The English Literary Periodical of Morals and Manners (1904, 186) - John Griffith Ames

Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers and Essayists (1865, 178) - Frederick William Hope

1780

An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces: In Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection (1785-1798)

1790

The Olio: Being a Collection of Essays, Dialogues, Letters, Etc. (1796, 321) - Francis Grose

1800

Literary Hours; or, Sketches, Critical, Narratiave, and Poetical, 3rd Ed. (1804) - Nathan Drake

  • Literary Hours, Vol. 2 (1804, 492) - Nathan Drake

  • Literary Hours, Vol. 3 (1804, 552) - Nathan Drake

    Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (1809, 537) - Thomas Chatterton

    Essays: Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler (1809-1910) - Nathan Drake

    1810

    The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays; Selected and Arranged from Scarce or Neglected Volumes (1811) - Nathan Drake

    The Sylvan Wanderer: A Series of Moral, Sentimental, and Critical Essays (1813, 143) - Egerton Brydges

    The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (1814) - Edward Gibbon

    The Projector: A Collection of Essays (1817) - Alexander Chalmers

    The Friend: A Series of Essays (1818) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters (1819) - William Hazlitt

    Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819, 343) - William Hazlitt

    Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward the Third, to the Revolution (1819) - James Caulfield

    1820

    Essays (1821, 162) - William Temple

    Table-Talk; or, Original Essays (1821, 400) - William Hazlitt

    Table-Talk; Original Essays on Men and Manners, 2nd Ed. (1824) - William Hazlitt

    Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries (1825) - Horace Smith

    Tales of an Antiquary: Chiefly Illustrative of the Manners, Traditions, and Remarkable Localities of Ancient London (1828) - Richard Thomson

    1830

    Essays: Moral and Political (1832) - Robert Southey

    Essays (1834, 68) - Samuel Ward

    The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside (1835) - Leigh Hunt

    The Cabinet: A Series of Essays, Moral and Literary (1835) - Archibald Bell

    Selections from the Edinburgh Review (1835) - Maurice Cross

    Thomas's Burlesque Drama, Embellished with Sixty Two Engravings (1838, 50) - Joseph Thomas

    Humour and Pathos; or, Essays, Sketches, and Tales (1838, 262) - George Robert Wythen Baxter

    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1838-?) - Thomas Carlyle

    The Modern Pythagorean: A Series of Tales, Essays, and Sketches (1838) - Robert Macnish

    Essays Moral and Humorous (1839, 194) - Joseph Addison

    Bibliographical Essay on the Collection of Voyages and Travels, Edited and Published by Levinus Hulsius and His Successors (1839, 118) - Adolf Asher

    The Works of Rev. Sydney Smith (1839) - Sydney Smith

    1840

    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1840-?) - Thomas Babington Macaulay

    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1842) - John Wilson

    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1843, 413) - James Stephen

    Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical Essays (1844, 419) - John Foster

    A Gallery of Literary Portraits (1845, 443) - George Gilfillan

    The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace (1845, 609) - George Cone Beckwith

    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1845, 563) - Alexander Hill Everett

    Literary and Historical Essays (1846, 252) - Thom Davis

    Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages (1846) - Thomas Wright

    Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (1846) - Francis Jeffrey

    Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions (1847, 447) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Zoological Recreations (1849, 376) - W. J. Broderip

    Historical Essays (1849, 311) - Philip Henry Stanhope (Lord Mahon)

    1850

    Essays Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Henry Rogers

    Historical Studies (1850, 467) - George Washington Greene

    The Literati: Some Honest Opinions About Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Words of Personality; Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays (1850, 607) - Edgar Allan Poe

    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1850-1851) - James Roche

    Essays: Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous

    Historical Essays (1851, 604) - John Coleman

    Fancies of a Whimsical Man (1852, 281) - Frederic Townsend

    Fun and Earnest (1853, 274) - Frederic Townsend

    The Dark Ages: A Series of Essays Intended to Illustrated the State of Religion and Literature in the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Centuries, 3rd Ed. (1853, 520) - Samuel Roffey Maitland

    Essays on Political and Social Science (1853) - William Rathbone Greg

    Historical and Critical Essays (1853) - Thomas De Quincey

    Essays on Agriculture (1854, 255) - Thomas Gisborne

    Critical and Miscellaneous Writings (1854, 176) - Thomas Noon Talfourd

    Letters from Rome, A.D. 138 (1854, 239) - Frederic Townsend

    Literary Recreations and Miscellanies (1854, 431) - John Greenleaf Whittier

    Spiritual Visitors (1854, 346) - Frederic Townsend

    Salad for the Solitary (1854, 344) - Frederick Saunders

    Essays: Agricultural and Literary (1856, 386) - John Chipman Gray

    Ghostly Colloquies (1856, 267) - Frederic Townsend

    Salad for the Social (1856, 401) - Frederick Saunders

    Chambers's Pocket Miscellany (1854-?) - William Chambers, Robert Chambers

    Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings (1855) - Leigh Hunt

    Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer (1855, 120) - Andrew Wynter

    Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers (1856, 396) - David W. Barlett

    Historical Notes 1509-1714 (1856) - Francis Sheppard Thomas

    Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (1856) - Henry, Lord Brougham

    The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical (1856) - Alexander Chalmers

    Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review (1857) - Francis Bond Head

    Biographical Essays (1857, 475) - Henry Theodore Tuckerman

    Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1857, 517) - George Bancroft

    Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution (1857, 571) - John Wilson Croker

    The author's opinions on the matter may be well inferred from the following:

    My memory and observation of public affairs are about coeval with that event. I was in my ninth year when the Bastille was taken; it naturally made a great impression on me, and the bloody scenes that so rapidly followed rendered that impression unfavourable. Such also was the feeling of my wise and excellent parents, and an alliance between our family and that of Mr. Burke helped to confirm us in that great man's prophetic opinions, which every event from that day to this appears to me to have wonderfully illustrated and fulfilled.

    Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review (1857) - Francis Bond Head

    Tea-Table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (1857) - Anne Jackson

    A Treatise on Hydraulics: For the Use of Engineers (1858, 532) - Jean Francois d'Aubuisson de Voisins

    Pieces of a Broken-Down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Vol. 1-4 (1858) - Charles Astor Bristed

    Lectures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary (1858, 357) - Samuel Brown, John Brown

    Lectures and Essays on Various Subjects, Historical, Topographical, and Artistic (1858, 308) - William Sidney Gibson

    Biographical and Critical Essays (1858-?) - Abraham Hayward

    Historical and Biographical Essays (1858) - John Forster

    The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, 3rd Ed. (1859, 360) - Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker

    The Philological Essays (1859, 342) - Richard Garnett

    Old Faces in New Masks (1859, 391) - Robert Blakey

    Mosaics (1859, 408) - Frederick Saunders

    Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, With Other Papers (1859, 461) - Charles Kingsley

    Rural Essays (1860, 557) - Andrew Jackson Downing

    1860

    Critical Essays Contributed to the Eclectic Review (1860) - John Foster, Jonathan Edwards Rylands

    Miscellanies (1860) - Charles Kingsley

    Curiosities of Civilization (1860, 535) - Andrew Wynter

    Essays from "The Quarterly Review" (1861, 390) - James Hannay

    Prison Books and Their Authors (1861, 357) - John Alfred Langford

    Studies and Sketches in Modern Literature (1861, 433) - Peter Landreth

    Essays on Archaeological Subjects: And on Various Questions Connected with the History of Art, Science, and Literature in the Middle Ages (1861) - Thomas Wright

    Protestantism and Other Essays (1862, 352) - Thomas De Quincey

    Essays on Scientific and Other Subjects (1862, 504) - Henry Holland

    Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain from 1783 to 1830 (1864, 500) - George Cornewall Lewis

    The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (1864, 659)

    Essays on Social Subjects: From the Saturday Review (1864, 305) - A. Nonymous Git

    Mornings of the Recess, 1861-4 (1864) - Samuel Lucas

    Every Day Papers (1864) - Andrew Halliday Duff

    After Breakfast, or Pictures Done With a Quill (1864) - George Augustus Sala

    Historical Studies (1865, 472) - Herman Merivale

    The Rook's Garden: Essays and Sketches (1865, 295) - Cuthbert Bede

    Our Social Bees: or, Pictures of Town and Country Life, and Other Papers (1865, 532) - Andrew Wynter

    Sunnyside Papers (1866, 312) - Andrew Halliday

    Rural Studies: With Hints for Country Places (1867, 295) - Donald Grant Mitchell

    The Sneering Age; and Other Essays (1867) - John Graye

    Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (1867, 379) - Jacob Bigelow

    Critical and Social Essays: Reprinted from The New-York Nation (1867, 230)

    Chips from a German Workshop: Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language (1867) - Friedrich Max Muller

    The Collector: Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers (1868, 353) - Henry Theodore Tuckerman

    Essays: Political and Miscellaneous (1868) - Bernard Cracroft

    Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers: Being Some of the Chisel-Marks of Our Industrial and Scientific Progress (1869, 446) - Andrew Wynter

    1870

    Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays (1870, 500) - Henry Hart Milman

    Essays: Chiefly on Questions of Church and State from 1850 to 1870 (1870, 617) - Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

    Recreations of a Recluse (1870) - Francis Jacox

    Curiosities of Toil and Other Papers (1870) - Andrew Wynter

    Topics of the Time (1871, 401) - James Parton

    Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Public Spirit (1871, 677) - James Parton

    Cues from All Quarters; or, The Literary Musings of a Clerical Recluse (1871, 340) - Francis Jacox

    Fables Respecting the Popes of the Middle Ages (1871, 302) - Johann Joseph Ignaz von Dollinger

    Essays on Natural History (1871, 631) - Charles Waterton

    Essays on Historical Truth (1871, 468) - Andrew Bisset

    Historical Essays (1871) - Edward A. Freeman

    There was bad blood between Freeman and Froude, brought out in Guy Thorne's "The Historicides of Oxford" in his "I Believe" and Other Essays collection, wherein we find Thorne much championing the latter over the former.

    Essays from "The Times": Being a Selection from the Literary Papers Which Have Appeared in That Journal (1871) - Samuel Phillips

    Tales and Sketches (1872, 389) - Hugh Miller

    Leading Articles on Various Subjects (1872, 453) - Hugh Miller

    Aspects of Authorship; or, Book Marks and Book Makers (1872, 494) - Francis Jacox

    Sketches and Essay; and Winterslow (Essays Written There) (1872, 466) - William Hazlitt

    Essays: Historical and Biographical; Political and Social; Literary and Scientific (1872, 495) - Hugh Miller

    Noctes Ambrosianae (1872) - John Wilson, James Hogg

    The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872) - Henry Thomas Buckle, Helen Taylor

    Master-Spirits (1873, 349) - Robert Williams Buchanan

    The Minor Works of George Grote (1873, 364) - George Grote

    Trade Truths and Fireside Fancies (1873, 136) - Benjamin Andrade

    At Nightfall and Midnight: Musings After Dark (1873, 466) - Francis Jacox

    The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors; Sun and Moon; Earthquakes; Flying-Machines; Coal; Gambling; Coincidences; Ghosts; &c. (1873, 438) - Richard Anthony Proctor

    Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873, 214) - Walter Pater

    Jest and Earnest: A Collection of Essays and Reviews (1873) - George Webbe Dasent

    The Jesuits, and Other Essays (1874, ?) - Willis Nevin

    Catholics in Ireland and England are not fond of "tracts," and especially is this observable in the case of the " Clifton tracts," which in single numbers have hardly any sale, while in the volume form there is still a moderate sale. Considering the fact that Protestants of all kinds, and in particular, Bitualists, do gain numerous adherents to their views by means of "tracts," I am sorry Catholics should not appreciate a weapon which their opponents use to advantage. The fact that the old heathen, Aristotle, has been so valuable to Catholics, is a lasting proof that we may learn from non-Catholics how to turn neutral or opposing forces to account. However, in my particular case, I must thank Catholics for the encouragement I have received from them, and hope that now I have taken away from my former readers the necessity of alluding to tracts on the Jesuits, etc., I shall find my old supporters will once again aid me in my attempts to give antidotes to the daily falsehoods of the London Press.

    Essays Critical and Narrative (1874, 462) - William Forsyth

    A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays (1874, 251) - Charles Bradlaugh

    Leaves from a Journalist's Note-Book (1874, 176) - Percy Russell

    Paradoxes and Puzzles: Historical, Judicial, and Literary (1874, 472) - John Paget

    Sketches and Studies: Descriptive and Historical (1874, 488) - Richard John King

    Hours in a Library (1874-?) - Leslie Stephen

    Peeps Into the Human Hive (1874) - Andrew Wynter

    Essays Political, Social, and Religious (1874-1900) - Richard Congreve

    Impressions of London Social Life (1875, 223) - Ehrman Syme Nadal

    A Sheaf of Papers (1875, 362) - Thomas Gold Appleton

    Saxon Studies (1875, 452) - Julian Hawthorne

    Lectures on the History of France (1875, 710) - James Stephen

    Fruit Between the Leaves, Vol. 1 & 2 (1875, 271 & 259) - Andrew Wynter

    Essays (1876, 298) - William Chauncey Fowler

    Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales and Sketches (1876, 300) - William Henry Rhodes

    The Echo Club and Other Literary Diversions (1876, 187) - Bayard Taylor

    The habit originated, very much as it is described in the " First Evening," at least twenty years ago, in a small private circle. Three or four young authors found not only amusement, but an agreeable relaxation from their graver tasks, in drawing names and also subjects as from a lottery-wheel, and improvising imitations of older and more renowned poets. Nothing was further from their minds than ridicule, or even incidental disparagement, of the latter, many of whom were not only recognized, but genuinely revered, by all. One form of intellectual diversion gradually led to another: the parodies alternated with the filling up of end-rhymes (usually of the most difficult and incongruous character), with the writing of double or concealed acrostics, spurious quotations from various languages, and whatever else could be devised by the ingenuity of the company. I may mention that some years before Mr. Lewis Carroll delighted all lovers of nonsense with his ballad of " The Jabberwock," we tried precisely the same experiment of introducing invented words. The following four lines may serve as a specimen of one attempt: —

    "Smitten-by harsh, transcetic thuds of shame,
    My squelgence fades : I mogrify my blame :
    The lupkin world, that leaves me yole and blant,
    Denies my affligance with looks askaut! "

    Of course, nothing further than amusing nonsense was ever contemplated. A few of the imitations found their way into print, but they were comparatively unnoticed in the flood of burlesque with which the public was then supplied from many other quarters. As a participant, for several years, in a variety of fun which was certainly harmless so long as it remained private, I was of the opinion that very little could be made public without some accompanying explanation. The idea of setting the imitations in a framework of dialogue which should represent various forms of literary taste and opinion seemed, first, to make the publication possible. But when I came to examine the scattered leaves with a view to this end, I was at once struck with their inadequacy to the purpose of comical illustration. Removed from the genial atmosphere in which they had spontaneously grown, many of them seemed withered and insipid. Many others were simply parodies of particular poems, instead of being burlesque reproductions of an author's manner and diction. The plan demanded that they should be rewritten, in consonance with the governing conception of the work, as a whole. This was accordingly done ; and not more than three or four of the following poems belong to the original private " diversions."

    Toilers and Spinsters: And Other Essays (1876, 389) - Anne Thackeray Ritchie

    Stray Studies from England and Italy (1876, 421) - John Richard Green

    Essays and Reviews (1876, 479) - Henry H. Lancaster

    Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us (1876, 323) - Richard Anthony Proctor

    Domestic Explosives and Other Sixth Column Fancies (1877, 334) - William Livingston Alden

    Biographies of Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers (1877, 387) - Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts

    Essays and Sketches (1877, 306) - Edmund J. Armstrong

    Hours with Men and Books (1877, 384) - William Mathews

    Backlog Studies (1878, 281) - Charles Dudley Warner

    Shooting Stars: As Observed from the "Sixth Column" of the Times (1878, 224) - William Livingston Alden

    Windfalls (1878, 364) - Thomas Gold Appleton

    Out-Door Papers (1879, 370) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Chequer-Work (1879, 385) - Thomas Gold Appleton

    Spare Hours (1879-1881) - John Brown

    1880

    Essays and Criticisms (1880, 365) - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

    Rough Ways Made Smooth: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects (1880, 410) - Richard Anthony Proctor

    Essays on Political Economy (1880, 291) - Frederic Bastiat

    The Friendship of Books and Other Lectures, 3rd Ed. (1880, 384) - Frederick Denison Maurice

    Critical Essays and Literary Notes (1880, 382) - Bayard Taylor

    Forty Years' Recollections: Literary and Political (1880, 347) - Thomas Frost

    Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe (1880) - John Addington Symonds

    Linguistic and Oriental Essays (1880-?) - Robert Needham Cust

    Essays and Phantasies (1881) - James Thomson

    English Studies; or, Essays in English History and Literature (1881, 448) - John Sherren Brewer

    Waifs: A Handful of Essays and Sketches (1881, 206) - William Tait Ross

    Some Private Views: Being Essays from "The Nineteenth Century" Review (1881, 221) - James Payn

    Literary Style, and Other Essays (1881, 312) - William Mathews

    Famous Books: Sketches in the Highways and Byeways of English Literature (1881, 384) - William Davenport Adams

    Essays by the Late George Brimley (1882, 327) - George Brimley, William George Clark

    Essays at Home and Elsewhere (1882) - Ehrman Syme Nadal

    Atlantic Essays (1882, 341) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Roman Cameos and Florentine Mosaics: A Series of Studies (1882, 332) - Emile Gebhart

    Traits and Travesties: Social and Political (1882, 429) - Laurence Oliphant

    Under the Sun (1882, 366) - Phil Robinson

    Stories from the State Papers (1882) - Alexander Charles Ewald

    The Imagination and Other Essays (1883, 312) - George MacDonald

    Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others (1883, 507) - Matthew Arnold

    A Scratch Team of Essays (1883, 255) - Septimus Berdmore

    Sketches and Tales (1883, 227) - Thomas Newbigging

    Glimpses Through the Cannon-Smoke (1883, 310) - Archibald Forbes

    Recreations of a Literary Man; or, Does Writing Pay? (1883, 331) - Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald

    A Scratch Team of Essays Never Before Put Together (1883, 255) - Septimus Berdmore

    Historical and Other Sketches (1883, 288) - James Anthony Froude

    By-Ways of Literature; or, Essays on Old Things and New, in the Customs, Education, Character, Literature, and Language of the English-Speaking People (1883, 247) - David Hilton Wheeler

    Essays on Sport and Natural History (1883, 485) - James Edmund Harting

    Living London, Being "Echoes" Reechoed (1883, 568) - George Augustus Sala

    The Childishness and Brutality of the Time (1883, 339) - Hargrave Jennings

    I have for a certain number of years concluded that our present age has become vastly too swift for that which, by a contradictory metaphor, may be called, " safe-running." I do not think I shall be corrected to exactness in averring that, for most purposes of truth and of cool, sound judgment, a previous time was very greatly superior to the hasty and conceited period in which we live. There are various reasons for this falling off. Principally among these causes are love of show, love of money, love of self. All these are good qualities in moderation; but, exaggerated and forced to an extreme, it needs no modern Diogenes—with his proverbial lantern to light him in his search for the " honest man," or, as the best Greek readers assure us is the meaning, the " Man "—to know that they fail.

    Satires and Profanities (1884, 191) - James Thomson

    Bacon's Essays with Annotations (1884, 641) - Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Franklin Fiske Heard

    Horses and Riders and Other Essays (1885, 235) - Oswald John F. Crawfurd

    Scientific Culture and Other Essays (1885, 293) - Josiah Parsons Cooke

    Darwinism, and Other Essays (1885, 374) - John Fiske

    Essays on the Art of Pheidias (1885, 431) - Charles Waldstein

    Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance (1885, 453) - Vernon Lee

    Studies Re-Studied: Historical Sketches from Original Sources (1885, 374) - Alexander Charles Ewald

    The Great Conversers, and Other Essays (1885, 304) - William Mathews

    Pastime Papers (1885, 233) - Frederick Saunders

    Plays and Puritans: And Other Historical Essays (1885, 271) - Charles Kingsley

    Miscellanies: Prose and Verse (1885) - William Maginn

    Magazine Essays (1886, 44) - Leigh Hadley Irvine

    Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century (1886, 426) - Charles Harold Herford

    The Pleasures of a Book-Worm (1886, 201) - John Rogers Rees

    Chapters of Erie: And Other Essays (1886, 429) - Charles Francis Adams

    The Choice of Books and Other Literary Pieces, 2nd Ed. (1886, 447) - Frederic Harrison

    Historical Essays (1886, 368) - James Anthony Froude

    Under the Sun: Essays Mainly Written in Hot Countries (1886, 397) - George Augustus Sala

    A Look Round Literature (1887, 386) - Robert Williams Buchanan

    The Diversions of a Book-Worm (1887, 258) - John Rogers Rees

    Men, Places, and Things (1887, 396) - William Mathews

    Essays (1887, 279) - Winthrop Mackworth Praed

    Roundabout Papers (1887, 367) - William Makepeace Thackeray

    Other Suns Than Ours: A Series of Essays on Suns - Old, Young, and Dead (1887, 419) - Richard Anthony Proctor

    Eighteenth Century Waifs (1887, 353) - John Ashton

    Tuscan Studies and Sketches (1888, 329) - Leader Scott

    Miscellaneous Essays (1888, 435) - Richard William Church

    Arm-Chair Essays (1888, 318) - Frederick Arnold

    Stray Chapters in Literature, Folk-Lore, and Archaeology (1888, 308) - William Edward Armytage Axon

    Essays on Literature (1888, 297) - Herman Friedrich Grimm

    The Story of Some Famous Books, 2nd Ed. (1888, 208) - Frederick Saunders

    Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1889) - Robert Louis Stevenson

    Pleasant Ways in Science (1889, 402) - Richard Anthony Proctor

    By-Ways in Book-Land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects (1889, 224) - William Davenport Adams

    Rambles in Book-Land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects (1889, 226) - William Davenport Adams

    Essays (1889) - Mark Pattison

    1890

    Three-Cornered Essays (1890, 314) - Frederick Arnold

    The Philospher in Slippers: Zigzag Views of Life and Society (1890, 311) - Frederick Arnold

    Our Dictionaries and Other English Language Topics (1890, 174) - Ralph Olmstead Williams

    Paper and Parchment: Historical Sketches (1890, 335) - Alexander Charles Ewald

    Blunders and Forgeries: Historical Essays (1890, 300) - Thomas Edward Bridgett

    Northern Studies (1890, 268) - Edmund Gosse

    Literary Essays (1890) - James Russell Lowell

    The Coming Terror and Other Essays and Letters (1891, 385) - Robert Williams Buchanan

    Faith and Unfaith: And Other Essays (1891, 249) - Charles Kegan Paul

    The Roman and the Teuton (1891, 343) - Friedrich Max Muller

    Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings (1891, 402) - Leigh Hunt

    Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses (1891, 488) - William Stirling Maxwell

    Historical Essays (1891, 422) - Henry Adams

    Essays in Little (1891, 205) - Andrew Lang

    Imaginary Conversations (1891) - Walter Savage Landor

    The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays (1892, 352) - James Anthony Froude

    Studies in Literature 1789-1877, 6th Ed. (1892, 523) - Edward Dowden

    Playthings and Parodies (1892, 309) - Barry Pain

    Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History (1892, 464) - Paul Vinogradoff

    Miscellaneous Essays (1892, 429) - George Saintsbury

    The New World and the New Book (1892, 239) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Americanisms and Briticisms with Other Essays on Other Isms (1892, 190) - Brander Matthews

    Historical and Political Essays (1892, 213) - Henry Cabot Lodge

    Historical Essays (1892, 155) - George Brubaker Kulp

    Eighteenth Century Vignettes (1892-?) - Austin Dobson

    Essays in London and Elsewhere (1893, 305) - Henry James

    Safe Studies (1893, 429) - Lionel A. Tollemache

    The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893, 100) - Alice Thompson Neynell

    Excursions in Criticism (1893, 166) - William Watson

    Excursions in Art and Letters (1893, 295) - William Wetmore Story

    After the Revolution: And Other Holiday Fantasies (1893, 321) - William Wallace

    My Miscellanies (1893, 426) - Wilkie Collins

    Letters to Dead Authors (1893, 253) - Andrew Lang

    The English Peasant: Studies; Historical, Local, and Biographic (1893, 382) - Richard Heath

    The Experimental Novel and Other Essays (1893, 413) - Emile Zola

    Essays: Literary and Miscellaneous (1893, 198) - Edward Slack

    Cheerful Thoughts of a Cheery Philosopher, Vol. II (1894, 306) - Frederick Arnold

    Two Essays on the Remnant (1894, 49) - John Eglinton (William Kirkpatrick Magee)

    Studies in Mediaeval Life and Literature (1894, 188) - Edward Tompkins McLaughlin

    Random Roaming, and Other Papers (1894, 264) - Augustus Jessopp

    Addresses on Historical and Literary Subjects (1894, 300) - Johann Joseph Ignaz von Dollinger

    Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Miscellaneous Essays (1894, 342) - George Eliot

    Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known (1894) - George Augustus Sala

    The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1894) - Washington Irving

    Varia (1894, 219) - John Ashton

    Essays of John Dryden (1895, 218) - John Dryden, C. D. Yonge

    New Studies in Literature (1895, 451) - Edward Dowden

    Studies in Early Victorian Literature (1895, 224) - Frederic Harrison

    Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 (1895, 328) - Edwin Lawrence Godkin

    The Book-Hunter in London: Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting (1895, 334) - William Roberts

    Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries (1895, 587) - John Horace Round

    Political Essays (1895, 415) - Charles Bradlaugh

    Light Science for Leisure Hours (1895, 343) - Richard Anthony Proctor

    Essays and Studies (1895, 369) - John Churton Collins

    Essays and Reviews (1895) - Edwin Percy Whipple

    Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists (1895-1897)

    Biographical and Critical Studies (1896, 483) - James Thomson

    Without Prejudice (1896, 384) - Israel Zangwill

    Transcripts and Studies (1896, 525) - Edward Dowden

    Essays (1896, 533) - Sarah Gaynor Atkinson

    Stories, Sketches and Studies (1896, 463) - Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Studies in Black and Red (1896, 320) - Joseph Forster

    Legends of the Middle Ages (1896, 340) - Helene Adeline Guerber

    At Random: Essays and Stories (1896, 263) - Louis Frederic Austin

    Adventures in Criticism (1896, 408) - Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

    Renaissance Fancies and Studies (1896, 258) - Vernon Lee

    Essays (1896, 312) - Arthur Christopher Benson

    Excursions in Libraria: Being Retrospective Reviews and Bibliographical Notes (1896, 271) - George Herbert Powell

    The Year After the Armada, and Other Historical Studies (1896, 388) - Martin Andrew Sharp Hume

    Words: Their Use and Abuse (1896, 494) - William Mathews

    Nugae Litterariae; or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other Themes (1896, 344) - William Mathews

    Episodes in a Life of Adventure; or, Moss from a Rolling Stone (1896, 420) - Laurence Oliphant

    Essays in Miniature (1896, 237) - Agnes Repplier

    Reviews and Critical Essays (1896, 345) - Charles Henry Pearson

    Collected Essays - Thomas Henry Huxley

    Occasional Papers (1897) - Richard William Church

    The Unconscious Humourist, and Other Essays (1897, 244) - Edmund Henry Lacon Watson

    Realism and Romance: And Other Essays (1897, 291) - Henry MacArthur

    Essays: Modern (1897, 334) - Frederic William Henry Myers

    Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh (1897, 461) - Thomas Carlyle

    Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England (1897, 527) - Frederic William Maitland

    The Platitudes of a Pessimist (1897, 334) - Thomas Longueville

    Studies in Literature (1897, 347) - John Morley

    The New Fiction and Other Essays on Literary Subjects (1897, 322) - Henry Duff Traill

    The Personal Equation (1898, 377) - Harry Thurston Peck

    The Penalties of Taste and Other Essays (1898, 164) - Norman Bridge

    Essays at Eventide (1898, 230) - Thomas Newbigging

    Pagan Papers (1898, 192) - Kenneth Grahame

    Curious Bypaths of History: Being Medico-Historical Studies and Observations (1898, 367) - Augustin Cabanes

    Stelligeri, and Other Essays Concerning America (1898, 217) - Barrett Wendell

    New Fragments (1898, 500) - John Tyndall

    Literary Studies: With a Prefatory Memoir (1898) - Walter Bagehot

    Critical Miscellanies (1898) - John Morley

    Short Studies on Great Subjects (1898-1907) - James Anthony Froude

    What is Good English? (1899, 318) - Harry Thurston Peck

    Sketches and Studies in South Africa (1899, 328) - William John Knox-Little

    Essays (1899, 175) - Wray Hunt

    The Vale of Anworth and Other Essays (1899) - D. Brown Anderson

    Book and Heart: Essays on Literature and Life (1899, 237) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography (1899, 343) - Richard Garnett

    Literature and Life (1899, 344) - Edwin Percy Whipple

    The Backwater of Life; or, Essays of a Literary Veteran (1899, 223) - James Payn

    The Literary Shop and Other Tales (1899, 360) - James Lauren Ford

    Literary Essays (1899, 333) - Mark Twain

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays (1899, 349) - John Fiske

    A Century of Science and Other Essays (1899, 477) - John Fiske

    Historians and Essayists (1899, 180)

    Essays of French, German and Italian Essayists (1899, 466)

    Tramping With Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life (1899, 398) - Josiah Flynt

    Retrospects and Prospects: Descriptive and Historical Essays (1899, 228) - Sidney Lanier

    Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books (1899, 228) - Augustine Birrell

    Collected Essays (1899) - Augustine Birrell

    On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles (1899) - John Ruskin

    1900

    The Decay of Sensibility: And Other Essays and Sketches (1900, 236) - Stephen Lucius Gwynn

    Things Seen: Impressions of Men, Cities, and Books (1900, 325) - George Warrington Steevens

    Sleeping Beauty: And Other Prose Fancies (1900, 211) - Richard Le Gallienne

    Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore (1900, 210) - Benjamin Taylor

    Literary Essays (1900, 490) - Richard Holt Hutton

    The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1900) - David Josiah Brewer

    The Pageantry of Life (1900, 269) - Charles Whibley

    Conferences on Books and Men (1900, 299) - Henry Charles Beeching

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece (1900) - John Addington Symonds

    Sharps and Flats (1900) - Eugene Field

    Obiter Dicta (1900-1907) - Augustine Birrell

    Miscellanies (1901, 285) - Augustine Birrell

    The Poet's Poet and Other Essays (1901, 352) - William Alfred Quayle

    A Model Village of Homes: And Other Papers (1901, 308) - Charles Edward Bolton

    Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature, 2nd Ed. (1901, 341) - Edward Dowden

    Pebbles from a Brook (1901, 115) - John Eglinton (William Kirkpatrick Magee)

    Essays of an Ex-Librarian (1901, 359) - Richard Garnett

    Essays in Historical Criticism (1901, 304) - Edward Gaylord Bourne

    Counsel Upon the Reading of Books (1901, 306) - H. Morse Stephens, et al.

    Essays in Historical Criticism (1901, 304) - Edward Gaylord Bourne

    The Historical Novel and Other Essays (1901, 321) - Brander Matthews

    A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things (1901, 166) - Elbert Hubbard

    Men and Letters (1901, 334) - Herbert Woodfield Paul

    Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901) - James Bryce

    The Rewards of Taste and Other Essays (1902, 270) - Norman Bridge

    A Persian Pearl and Other Essays (1902, 152) - Clarence Darrow

    Old Picture Books: With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (1902, 282) - Alfred William Pollard

    Mr. Gladstone As I Knew Him, and Other Essays (1902, 287) - Robert Brown

    Historical Introductions to the Rolls Series (1902, 534) - William Stubbs

    Melomaniacs (1902, 350) - James Huneker

    Selected Essays and Papers (1902, 393) - Richard Copley Christie

    The Romance of the Commonplace (1902, 152) - Gelett Burgess

    Salmagundi; or, the Whimhams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others (1902, 496) - William Irving, James Kirke Paulding, Washington Irving

    Pen and Ink: Papers on Subjects of More or Less Importance (1902, 277) - Brander Matthews

    Fashions in Literature, and Other Literary and Social Essays and Addresses (1902, 330) - Charles Dudley Warner

    Ephemera Critica, or Plain Truths About Current Literature (1902, 377) - John Churton Collins

    Essays: Historical and Literary, Vol. 1 & 2 (1902, 422 & 316) - John Fiske

    Aspects of Fiction: And Other Ventures in Criticism, 3rd Ed. (1902, 297) - Brander Matthews

    Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays (1902, 300) - Charles Kingsley

    Historical Lectures and Essays (1902, 404) - Charles Kingsley

    A Book About Books (1903, 254) - Robert Blatchford

    Historical Studies (1903, 365) - John Richard Green

    A Book of Essays (1903, 309) - George Slythe Street

    Contributions to "Punch" Etc. (1903, 759) - William Makepeace Thackeray

    The Diversions of a Book-Lover (1903, 322) - Adrian Hoffman Joline

    Ponkapog Papers (1903, 195) - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

    Stray Studies: Second Series (1903, 276) - John Richard Green

    Historical Studies (1903, 365) - John Richard Green

    The Aftermath; or, Gleanings from a Busy Life (1903, 194) - Hilaire Belloc

    Portraits of the Sixties (1903, 339) - Justin McCarthy

    Essays and Historiettes (1903, 336) - Walter Besant

    Historical Essays and Reviews (1903, 356) - Mandell Creighton

    Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903, 344) - John Churton Collins

    The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (1903, 311) - Frank Norris

    Chats on Writers and Books (1903) - John N. Crawford

    Studies of a Booklover (1904, 301) - Thomas Marc Parrott

    The Views About Hamlet and Other Essays (1904, 403) - Albert Harris Tolman

    The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Lterature (1904, 360) - Barrett Wendell

    Journalism and Literature, and Other Essays (1904, 226) - Henry Walcott Boynton

    Reflections of a Bass-Drum Player on Everything Worth Thinking About (1904, 279) - Dr. Bombo

    Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life (1904, 307) - Arthur Conan Doyle

    Prose Fancies (1904, 204) - Richard Le Gallienne

    Recreations of an Anthologist (1904, 228) - Brander Matthews

    Shelburne Essays, First Series (1904, 253) - Paul Elmer More

    Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses (1904, 374) - Henry Sidgwick

    Literary Portraits (1904, 334) - Charles Whibley

    Collected Essays and Reviews (1904, 406) - Thomas Graves Law, Peter Hume Brown

    Natural History Essays (1904-1907) - Graham Renshaw

    Elizabethan Critical Essays (1904) - George Gregory Smith, ed.

    Composers (1904-?) - Daniel Gregory Mason

    In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays (1905, 312) - Augustine Birrell

    Hebrew Humour and Other Essays (1905, 186) - Joseph Chotzner

    Essays by the Late Marquess of Salisbury (1905) - Robert Cecil

    Pryings Among Private Papers: Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1905, 214) - Thomas De Longueville

    Fisherman's Luck: And Some Other Uncertain Things (1905, 283) - Henry Van Dyke

    Essays in Application (1905, 282) - Henry Van Dyke

    Books and Things: A Collection of Stray Remarks (1905, 246) - George Slythe Street

    More.

    Books and Personalities (1905, 317) - Henry Woodd Nevinson

    Hither and Thither: A Collection of Comments on Books and Bookish Matters (1905, 388) - John Thomson

    Part of a Man's Life (1905, 311) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Shelburne Essays, Second Series (1905, 253) - Paul Elmer More

    Shelburne Essays, Third Series (1905, 265) - Paul Elmer More

    The Enchanted Woods: And Other Essays on the Genius of Places (1905, 320) - Vernon Lee

    Selected Essays of Henry Fielding (1905, 222) - Henry Fielding

    In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays (1905, 312) - Augustine Birrell

    Studies from Court and Cloister (1905, 379) - Jean Mary Stone

    French Profiles (1905, 372) - Edmund Gosse

    Adventures Among Books (1905, 312) - Andrew Lang

    Lectures and Essays (1905) - Alfred Ainger

    Books and Life: Brief Studies (1906, 221) - William Alfred Quayle

    Studies in Seven Arts (1906, 394) - Arthur Symons

    Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays (1906, 211) - Thomas Whittaker

    The New Sketch Book: Being Essays Now First Collected from "The Foreign Quarterly Review" (1906, 323) - William Makepeace Thackeray

    The Companionship of Books: And Other Papers (1906, 320) - Frederic Rowland Marvin

    The Religion of Numa and Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome (1906, 189) - James Benedict Carter

    The Coming of the Friars: And Other Historic Essays (1906, 344) - Augustus Jessopp

    Lectures on Early English History (1906, 391) - William Stubbs

    Fireside and Sunshine (1906, 239) - Edward Verrall Lucas

    Recreations of a Naturalist (1906, 433) - James Edmund Harting

    Literary Essays (1906, 384) - John Morley

    A Frontier Town and Other Essays (1906, 274) - Henry Cabot Lodge

    Stray Leaves (1906, 307) - Herbert Woodfield Paul

    Dramatic Opinions and Essays (1906-1909) - Bernard Shaw

    Inquiries and Opinions (1908, 305) - Brander Matthews

    "I Believe" and Other Essays (1907, 311) - Guy Thorne

    The Toil of Life: Being a Collection of Essays on the Philosophy of Joy and Pain (1907, 257) - Francis Powys Stopford

    Adventures in Contentment (1907, 249) - Ray Stannard Baker

    Modern Studies (1907, 342) - Oliver Elton

    Books in the House (1907, 151) - Alfred William Pollard

    Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers and Essays (1907, 390) - John Brown

    Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country (1907, 352) - Alexander Smith

    Historical Essays and Studies (1907, 544) - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

    Studies, Historical and Critical (1907, 319) - Pasquale Villari

    Shelburne Essays, Fourth Series (1907, 283) - Paul Elmer More

    The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1907, 264) - W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Literary Essays (1907, 440) - Jonathan Swift

    Astronomical Essays: Historical and Descriptive (1907, 342) - John Ellard Gore

    Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking (1907, 410) - Leslie Stephen

    A Fighting Frigate and Other Essays and Addresses (1907, 316) - Henry Cabot Lodge

    Studies of a Biographer (1907) - Leslie Stephen

    Studies in Biography (1907, 378) - Spencer Walpole

    The Case of Sir John Fastolf, and Other Historical Studies (1907, 240) - David Wallace Duthie

    We live in an age when the whitewashing of reputations is a recognised form of literary enterprise. The art of Sir Peter Lely, on whose canvas ladies found themselves to be as beautiful as they had always suspected, has descended to the man of letters. We rub our eyes before the appearing of old friends with faces so new that we may be pardoned if we boggle in the recognition of them. The mask of the monster has been taken from Tiberius, the Roman emperor, and lo! a meek ascetic of singularly humane disposition, and puritanic propriety of morals. Henry VIII., Bluebeard of our schoolboy days, is but a henpecked husband, driven to severity only by intolerable domestic persecutions. The tyrant and murderer has disappeared in Richard III. He now stands before us " an unpopular king." Machiavelli had long remained the embodiment of Satanic suggestion: we are assured, if we will but listen intently enough, we may hear the cooing of the dove above the hissing of the serpent. No longer, on the showing of his own people and his own times, is Borgia Simony and Unbridled Licence sitting on the throne of St. Peter: viewed in fairer perspective he is the " gentle and kindly affectioned Shepherd" who overcame the disability of being the father of a family by " exhibiting an illustrious example of paternal virtue." " Bloody Clavers" must henceforth be known as " Bonny Dundee"; the slaughterer of the peaceable, God-fearing Covenanters was but the puppet of a lying legend, " the truth being that he was an honourable gentleman, of a Christian life and lofty ideals." A last example is at our own doors, where the iron visage of Cromwell, cleansed from the blood and tears of three kingdoms, and wearing an aureole from Chelsea, looks out from the Houses of Parliament, whose liberties the Protector despised and overthrew.

    Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History (1907-1909) - John Henry Wigmore, Ernst Freund, William Ephraim Mikell

    Short Studies on Great Subjects (1907) - James Anthony Froude

    Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography (1907) - James Stephen

    Studies of a Biographer (1907) - Leslie Stephen

    Studies in the History of Venice (1907) - Horatio Forbes Brown

    Pearls and Parasites (1908, 232) - Arthur Everett Shipley

    The Privileged Classes (1908, 272) - Barrett Wendell

    De Quibus: Discourses and Essays (1908, 380) - William Henry Taylor

    Essays in Municipal Administration (1908, 374) - John Archibald Fairlie

    Days Off: And Other Digressions (1908, 320) - Henry Van Dyke

    Books and Reading (1908, 381) - Roscoe Crosby Gaige, ed.

    Some Eighteenth Century Byways and Other Essays (1908, 345) - John Buchan

    Some Threepenny Bits (1908, 322) - George William Erskine Russell

    A Pocketful of Sixpences (1908, 344) - George William Erskine Russell

    Sir William Temple Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, With Other XVIIth Century Garden Essays (1908, 272) - Albert Forbes Sieveking

    The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: And Other Essays (1908, 330) - Francis Aidan Gasquet

    The Old English Bible, and Other Essays (1908, 347) - Francis Aidan Gasquet

    Irish & English: Portraits and Impressions (1908, 240) - Robert Lynd

    Imaginary Obligations (1908, 335) - Frank Moore Colby

    Limbo, and Other Essays (1908, 292) - Vernon Lee

    The Sentimental Traveller: Notes on Places (1908, 281) - Vernon Lee

    Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (1908, 450) - Vernon Lee

    At Large (1908, 425) - Arthur Christopher Benson

    Reviews (1908, 554) - Oscar Wilde

    Essays Political and Biographical (1908, 317) - Spencer Walpole

    Shelburne Essays, Fifth Series (1908, 261) - Paul Elmer More

    The New American Type and Other Essays (1908, 343) - Henry Dwight Sedgwick

    Essays on Life, Art and Science (1908, 339) - Samuel Butler

    Literary and Historical Essays (1908, 271) - Henry Grey Graham

    American Sketches (1908, 310) - Charles Whibley

    Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century (1908) - Joel Elias Spingarn

    The Appreciation of Music (1908-1921) - Thomas Whitney Surette, Daniel Gregory Mason

    Studies in Several Literatures (1909, 296) - Harry Thurston Peck

    A Snuff-Box Full of Trees and Some Apocryphal Essays (1909, 91) - William De Lancey Ellwanger

    Carlyle's Laugh and Other Surprises (1909, 388) - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Gospels of Anarchy: And Other Contemporary Studies (1909, 372) - Vernon Lee

    Studies of Religious Dualism (1909, 355) - Paul Elmer More

    The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays (1909, 249) - Ambrose Bierce

    Sixpenny Pieces (1909, 305) - Albert Neil Lyons

    On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1909, 261) - Hilaire Belloc

    Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Art and Political Economy (1909, 311) - Oliver Lodge

    The American of the Future and Other Essays (1909, 355) - Brander Matthews

    Historical Essays (1909, 335) - James Ford Rhodes

    1910

    Adventures in Friendship (1910, 232) - Ray Stannard Baker

    A Group of English Essayists of the Early Nineteenth Century (1910, 250) - Caleb Thomas Winchester

    Essays Modern and Elizabethan (1910, 379) - Edward Dowden

    Excursions of a Book-Lover: Being Papers on Literary Themes (1910, 331) - Frederic Rowland Marvin

    Before the Great Pillage: With Other Miscellanies (1910, 260) - Augustus Jessopp

    Constrained Attitudes (1910, 249) - Frank Moore Colby

    Essays on the Spot (1910, 292) - Charles David Stewart

    The Silent Isle (1910, 444) - Arthur Christopher Benson

    Society and Politics in Ancient Rome: Essays and Sketches (1910, 267) - Frank Frost Abbott

    Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series (1910, 269) - Paul Elmer More

    Revolution, and Other Essays (1910, 309) - Jack London

    Anarchism and Other Essays (1910, 277) - Emma Goldman

    On Everything (1910, 293) - Hilaire Belloc

    Among Friends (1910, 278) - Samuel McChord Crothers

    Essays on Modern Novelists (1910, 293) - William Lyon Phelps

    Historical and Political Essays (1910, 296) - William Edward Hartpole Lecky

    Essays on Russian Novelists (1911, 322) - William Lyon Phelps

    Essays and Criticism (1911, 378) - Thomas Gray

    Essays (1911, 328) - Henry Francis Pelham

    Literature (1911, 394) - Henry Van Dyke, ed.

    The Gentle Reader (1911, 321) - Samuel McChord Crothers

    The Patient Observer and His Friends (1911, 348) - Simeon Strunsky

    Prejudices (1911, 264) - Charles Macomb Flandrau

    The Leaves of the Tree: Studies in Biography (1911, 454) - Arthur Christopher Benson

    Genius and Other Essays (1911, 288) - Edmund Clarence Stedman

    The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (1911, 285) - William Makepeace Thackeray

    European Years: The Letters of an Idle Man (1911, 373) - Hermann jackson Warner, George Edward Woodberry

    Daniel Webster: A Vindication, With Other Historical Essays (1911, 419) - William Cleaver Wilkinson

    Literary Influences in Colonial Newspaper, 1704-1750 (1912, 279) - Elizabeth Christine Cook

    A Little of Everything (1912, 239) - Edward Verrall Lucas

    Backgrounds of Literature (1912, 328) - Hamilton Wright Mabie

    Among Famous Books, 2nd Ed. (1912, 324) - John Kelman

    The Fascination of Books: With Other Papers on Books and Bookselling (1912, 356) - Joseph Shaylor

    Some English Story Tellers: A Book of the Younger Novelists (1912, 508) - Frederic Taber Cooper

    Essays of Travel and in the Art of Writing (1912, 331) - Robert Louis Stevenson

    Heretics (1912, 305) - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

    Overtones: A Book of Temperaments (1912, 335) - James Huneker

    All Manner of Folk (1912, 206) - Holbrook Jackson

    A Little of Everything (1912, 239) - Edward Verrall Lucas

    The Common People of Ancient Rome: Studies of Roman Life and Literature (1912, 290) - Frank Frost Abbott

    The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays (1912, 380) - Roswell Park

    The Common People of Ancient Rome: Studies of Roman Life and Literature (1912, 290) - Frank Frost Abbott

    This and That and the Other (1912, 351) - Hilaire Belloc

    Gateways to Literature and Other Essays (1912, 294) - Brander Matthews

    The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook (1912, 266) - James Harvey Robinson

    Modern Problems: A Discussion of Debatable Subjects (1912, 348) - Oliver Lodge

    Studies in Frankness (1912, 262) - Charles Whibley

    A Book of Scoundrels (1912, 287) - Charles Whibley

    Portraits and Sketches (1912, 297) - Edmund Gosse

    Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism (1912) - Vernon Lee

    The Anarchist Ideal and Other Essays (1913, 274) - Robert Mark Wenley

    Earth-Hunger and Other Essays (1913, 377) - William Graham Sumner

    The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment (1913, 342) - Ray Stannard Baker

    The Invincible Alliance: And Other Essays (1913, 235) - Francis Grierson

    The Humour of the Underman: And Other Essays (1913, 204) - Francis Grierson

    The Critic in the Orient (1913, 178) - George Hamlin Fitch

    The Critic in the Occident (1913, 177) - George Hamlin Fitch

    The Treasure of the Humble (1913, 224) - Maurice Maeterlinck

    Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques (1913, 195) - James Huneker

    The Edge of the Woods, and Other Papers (1913, 224) - Zephine Humphrey

    Along the Road (1913, 462) - Arthur Christopher Benson

    The Drift of Romanticism (Shelburne Essays, Eighth Series) (1913, 302) - Paul Elmer More

    Legal Antiquities: A Collection of Essays Upon Ancient Laws and Customs (1913, 349) - Edward Joseph White

    Vices in Virtues and Other Vagaries (1913, 96) - Thomas Longueville

    Clio, a Muse: And Other Essays Literary and Pedestrian (1913, 200) - George Macaulay Trevelyan

    New Letters of an Idle Man (1913, 300) - Hermann Jackson Warner, George Edward Woodberry

    Essays in Biography (1913, 311) - Charles Whibley

    Byways in Bookland: Confessions and Digressions (1914, 204) - Walter Arnold Mursell

    Essays (1914, 267) - Alice Christiana Meynell

    The City of Dancing Dervishes, and Other Sketches and Studies from the Near East (1914, 257) - Harry Luke

    Studies in Southern History and Politics (1914, 394)

    Fantastics and Other Fancies (1914, 239) - Lafcadio Hearn

    The Bee: And Other Essays (1914, 416) - Oliver Goldsmith

    The Challenge of Facts: And Other Essays (1914, 450) - William Graham Sumner

    Famous Reviews: Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes (1914, 498) - Reginald Brimley Johnson

    The Humour of Homer and Other Essays (1914, 301) - Samuel Butler

    Gossip in a Library (1914, 277) - Edmund Gosse

    Seventeenth Century Studies (1914, 350) - Edmund Gosse

    Critical Kit-Kats (1914, 309) - Edmund Gosse

    Fireside Papers (1915, 357) - Frederic Rowland Marvin

    Essays and Letters (1915, 306) - Hiram David Peck

    Essays in Social Justice (1915, 429) - Thomas Nixon Carver

    Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays (1915, 377) - Richard Le Gallienne

    Escape, and Other Essays (1915, 302) - Arthur Christopher Benson

    Aristocracy and Justice (1915, 243) - Paul Elmer More

    The Democracy of the Constitution: And Other Addresses and Essays (1915, 297) - Henry Cabot Lodge

    Modern Essays (1915, 291) - John William Mackail

    A Budget of Paradoxes (1915) - Augustus de Morgan

    A great many individuals, ever since the rise of the mathematical method, have, each for himself, attacked its direct and indirect consequences. I shall not here stop to point out how the very accuracy of exact science gives better aim than the preceding state of things could give. I shall call each of these persons a paradoxer, and his system a paradox. I use the word in the old sense: a paradox is something which is apart from general opinion, either in subject-matter, method, or conclusion.

    Many of the things brought forward would now be called crotchets, which is the nearest word we have to old paradox. But there is this difference, that by calling a thing a crotchet we mean to speak lightly of it; which was not the necessary sense of paradox. Thus in the sixteenth century many spoke of the earth's motion as the paradox of Copernicus, who held the ingenuity of that theory in very high esteem, and some, I think, who even inclined towards it. In the seventeenth century, the depravation of meaning took place, in England at least. Phillips says paradox is "a thing which seemeth strange"—here is the old meaning: after a colon he proceeds—"and absurd, and is contrary to common opinion," which is an addition due to his own time.

    ...

    There is a line to be drawn which is constantly put aside in the arguments held by paradoxers in favor of their right to instruct the world. Most persons must, or at least will, like the lady in Cadogan Place,1 form and express an immense variety of opinions on an immense variety of subjects; and all persons must be their own guides in many things. So far all is well. But there are many who, in carrying the expression of their own opinions beyond the usual tone of private conversation, whether they go no further than attempts at oral proselytism, or whether they commit themselves to the press, do not reflect that they have ceased to stand upon the ground on which their process is defensible. Aspiring to lead others, they have never given themselves the fair chance of being first led by other others into something better than they can start for themselves; and that they should first do this is what both those classes of others have a fair right to expect. New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation of old knowledge in every matter which concerns thought; mechanical contrivance sometimes, not very of ten, escapes this rule. All the men who are now called discoverers, in every matter ruled by thought, have been men versed in the minds of their predecessors, and learned in what had been before them. There is not one exception. I do not say that every man has made direct acquantance with the whole of his mental ancestry; many have, as I may say, only known their grandfathers by the report of their fathers. But even on this point it is remarkable how many of the greatest names in all departments of knowledge have been real antiquaries in their several subjects.

    Fragments of Science (1915) - John Tyndall

    Studies in Gardening (1916, 337) - Arthur Clutton-Brock

    Studies in Insect Life and Other Essays (1916, 338) - Arthur Everett Shipley

    Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations (1916, 438) - John Cowper Powys

    Penultimate Words and Other Essays (1916, 205) - Lev Shestov

    The Booklover and His Books (1916, 183) - Harry Lyman Koopman

    The Observations of Professor Maturin (1916, 224) - Clyde Bowman Furst

    Portraits of the Seventies (1916, 485) - George William Erskine Russell

    The Man Versus the State (1916, 357) - Herbert Spencer

    Essays and Literary Studies (1916, 310) - Stephen Leacock

    Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, and Other Essays (1916, 229) - Samuel McChord Crothers

    The English Familiar Essay (1916, 471) - William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane

    Inter Arma: Being Essays Written in Time of War (1916, 248) - Edmund Gosse

    Essays Scientific, Political and Speculative (1916) - Herbert Spencer

    Great Possessions: A New Series of Adventures (1917, 208) - Ray Stannard Baker

    Books and Persons: Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 (1917, 337) - Arnold Bennett

    Utopia of Userers: And Other Essays (1917, 217) - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

    A Naturalist of Souls: Studies in Psychography (1917, 290) - Gamaliel Bradford

    Unicorns (1917, 361) - James Huneker

    What is Man? and Other Essays (1917, 375) - Mark Twain

    Political Portraits (1917, 327) - Charles Whibley

    The Moderns: Essays in Literary Criticism (1917, 341) - John Freeman

    Walking-Stick Papers (1918, 309) - Robert Cortes Holliday

    Shandygaff: A Number of Most Agreeable Inquirendoes Upon Life and Letters (1918, 326) - Christopher Morley

    Colour Studies in Paris (1918, 260) - Arthur Symons

    A Novelist on Novels (1918, 245) - Walter Lionel George

    Appreciations and Depreciations: Irish Literary Studies (1918, 162) - Ernest Augustus Boyd

    The Comforts of Home (1918, 106) - Ralph Bergengren

    There's Pippins and Cheese to Come (1918, 139) - Charles Stephen Brooks

    Literary Recreations (1918, 329) - Edward Tyas Cook

    The War and After: Short Chapters on Subject of Serious Practical Import for the Average Citizen from A.D. 1915 Onwards (1918, 252) - Oliver Lodge

    The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays (1919, 559) - William Graham Sumner

    Old and New Masters (1919, 249) - Robert Lynd

    Why Authors Go Wrong, and Other Explanations (1919, 212) - Grant Martin Overton

    A Music Motley (1919, 326) - Ernest Newman

    Set Down in Malice: A Book of Reminiscences (1919, 286) - Charles Frederick Kenyon

    Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street (1919, 280) - Christopher Morley

    Broome Street Straws (1919, 298) - Robert Cortes Holliday

    A Lover of the Chair (1919, 303) - Sherlock Bronson Gass

    Leaves in the Wind (1919, 274) - Alfred George Gardiner

    Chimney-Pot Papers (1919, 184) - Charles Stephen Brooks

    With the Wits (1919, 311) - Paul Elmer More

    Nothing and Other Things (1919, 100) - Thomas Longueville

    Education by Violence: Essays on the War and the Future (1919, 233) - Henry Seidel Canby

    The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays (1919, 509) - Thorstein Veblen

    Sketches and Reviews (1919, 150) - Walter Pater

    Literary Studies (1919, 370) - Charles Whibley

    Percolator Papers (1919, 258) - Ellwood Hendrick

    Books and Things (1919, 281) - Philip Littell

    The Recreations of a Historian (1919, 254) - George Macaulay Trevelyan

    Untimely Papers (1919, 230) - Randolph Silliman Bourne

    The Liberators: Beings Adventures in the City of Fine Minds (1919, 266) - Elbert Hubbard

    Books in General (1919-1920) - John Collings Squire

    1920

    Collected Essays and Reviews (1920, 516) - William James

    Essays (1920, 259) - Irene Clark Safford

    Journeys to Bagdad (1920, 138) - Charles Stephen Brooks

    Faces in the Fire; and Other Fancies (1920, 272) - Frank Boreham

    Contemporary Portraits (1920, 346) - Frank Harris

    Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers (1920, 314) - Paul Rosenfeld

    Books and Their Writers (1920, 343) - Stuart Petre Brodie Mais

    Bedouins (1920, 271) - James Huneker

    Men and Books and Cities (1920, 251) - Robert Cortes Holliday

    Library Essays: Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries (1920, 432) - Arthur Elmore Bostwick

    A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects (1920, 344) - Arthur Elmore Bostwick

    History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays (1920, 343) - Randolph Silliman Bourne

    Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life (1920, 312) - Theodore Dreiser

    Literary Essays (1920, 336) - George Edward Woodberry

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters (1920, 344) - Edmund Gosse

    Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 9th Ed. (1920, 492) - Walter William Rouse Ball

    The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (1920, 373) - Alfred Edward Newton

    Prejudices (1920-1922) - H. L. Mencken

    Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (1921, 231) - Remy de Gourmont

    John Ruskin, Preacher and Other Essays (1921, 187) - Lewis Herbert Chrisman

    Cross-Lots and Other Essays (1921, 184) - George Clarke Peck

    Originality and Other Essays (1921, 140) - William Henry McMasters

    Wiltshire Essays (1921, 234) - Maurice Henry Hewlett

    Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts: A Book of Essays and Excursions (1921, 319) - Henry Van Dyke

    Hints to Pilgrims (1921, 192) - Charles Stephen Brooks

    Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts: A Book of Essays and Excursions (1921, 312) - Henry Van Dyke

    Things That Have Interested Me (1921, 332) - Arnold Bennett

    The Luggage of Life (1921, 246) - Frank Boreham

    A Magnificent Farce: And Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (1921, 267) - Alfred Edward Newton

    Pipefuls (1921, 274) - Christopher Morley

    More (1921, 201) - Max Beerbohm

    And Even Now (1921, 320) - Max Beerbohm

    Seeing Things at Night (1921, 268) - Heywood Broun

    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1921, 246) - George Gissing

    The Uses of Diversity: A Book of Essays (1921, 289) - G. K. Chesterton

    A New England Group and Others (1921, 295) - Paul Elmer More

    The Circus and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces (1921, 299) - Joyce Kilmer

    Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop (1921, 362) - James Lauren Ford

    Literary Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1921, 320) - George Edward Woodberry

    Studies of a Litterateur (1921, 328) - George Edward Woodberry

    The Senate of the United States: And Other Essays and Addresses Historical and Literary (1921, 248) - Henry Cabot Lodge

    Books on the Table (1921, 348) - Edmund Gosse

    The Art of Letters (1921, 240) - Robert Lynd

    Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms (1922, 211) - Heywood Broun

    Studies in Prose and Verse (1922, 291) - Arthur Symons

    Essays on Books (1922, 319) - William Lyon Phelps

    Essays (1922, 174) - Percy Stickney Grant

    Companionable Books (1922, 391) - Henry Van Dyke

    Books and Characters: French and English (1922, 322) - Lytton Strachey

    Books and Authors (1922, 271) - Robert Lynd

    The Portrait of a Scholar and Other Essays Written in Macedonia 1916-1918 (1922, 147) - Robert William Chapman

    When Winter Comes to Main Street (1922, 370) - Grant Martin Overton

    Plum Pudding; of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned (1922, 242) - Christopher Morley

    Books Reviewed (1922, 293) - John Collings Squire

    Essays at Large (1922, 211) - John Collings Squire

    Giving and Receiving: Essays and Fantasies (1922, 216) - Edward Verrall Lucas

    Variations (1922, 279) - James Huneker

    A Market Bundle (1922, 310) - Albert Neil Lyons

    An Old Castle and Other Essays (1922, 395) - Caleb Thomas Winchester

    A Scrap Book (1922, 298) - George Saintsbury

    Essays on English (1922, 282) - Brander Matthews

    The Tocsin of Revolt and Other Essays (1922, 293) - Brander Matthews

    Aspects and Impressions (1922, 299) - Edmund Gosse

    Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1922, 410) - Elbert Hubbard

    Periodicals

    The Analectic Magazine

    Vol. 11 (1818)

    Blackwood's Magazine

    Vol. 25 (1829)

    • Clifford the astrologer: a legend of Craven - Teutonicus
    • Hansel Monday
    • Luther
    • On what general principles ought Ireland to be governed?
    • Observations on the Duke of Newcastle's letter
    • Ireland as it is, Chap. VII-VIII
    • It's very odd!
    • Sketches of Italy and the Italians, with remarks on antiquities and fine art
    • Edinburrgh Sessional School
    • The working of the currency
    • The boxes
    • Chapters on churchyards, Chap. XVII - A.
    • Sketches of Italy and the Italians, with remarks on antiquities and fine art, Chap. XI-XIX
    • The murder hole: an ancient legend
    • Ireland as it is, Chap. IX-X
    • Luther
    • Marquis of Anglesea
    • First and last
    • The modern Gyges: A tale of trials
    • The assembling of Parliament
    • Cuttings
    • The Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel
    • First and last, No. II
    • The man-mountain
    • Sketches of Italy and the Italians, with remarks on antiquities and fine art, Chap. XX-XXV
    • The two Emilies
    • The supremacy of the Church of Rome not acknowledged by the British Christians till the ninth century - Hywel
    • Tailors
    • Chapters on churchyards, Chap. XVIII
    • Twelve years of military adventure in three quarters of the globe
    • Noctes Ambrosianae, No. XLI
    • Ireland in MDCCCXXIX
    • Mary Melrose - The Ettrick Shepherd
    • Bosworth Field
    • Peter Starofsky: A tale of Armenia
    • First and last, No. III
    • Sketches on the road in Ireland, No. I
    • Chapters on churchyards, Chap. XIX
    • The "breaking in upon the Constitution of 1688"
    • Noctes Ambrosianae, No. XLII
    • Noctes Ambrosianae, No. XLIII
    • Sketches on the road in Ireland, No. II
    • Sketches of Italy and the Italians, with remarks on antiquities and fine arts, Chap. XXVI-XXXI
    • First and last, No. IV
    • Lord Pitsligo
    • Chapters on churchyards, Chap. XX
    • The Duke De Rovigo and Co.
    • The Irish church establishment vs. Thomas Spring Rice and Daniel Whittle Harvey
    • The British colonies: A second letter to his grace the Duke of Wellington, from James M'Queen, Esq.
    • Case of East Betford
    • Debates in Parliament on the silk trade
    • The millennium
    • Sketches of Italy and the Italians, Chap. XXXII-XLII
    • What's to be done? - P.W.
    • Some account of the conduct of Bishop Brown
    • The murderer's last night
    • Sound morality - The Ettrick Shepherd
    • Colloquies in Ireland respecting recent measures
    • Sketches on the road in Ireland, No. III
    • An opposition
    • Noctes Ambrosianae, No. XLIV

    Cornhill Magazine

    Vol. 94 (New Series Vol. 21, 1906)

    • The mind of a dog - S. Alexander
    • A sceptic of the stone age - H. C. Bailey
    • Twenty years in London by a French resident - Paul Villars
    • The passing of Euclid - Charles Godfrey
    • The winds of the ocean - Frank T. Bullen
    • General Marbot and his memoirs - J. Holland Rose
    • Alcohol and tobacco - R. Brudenell Carter

    • Objects of polar discovery - Clements Markham
    • Memories of church restoration - Thomas Hardy
    • When the herring come in - Stephen Gwynn
    • Snuffed out - George Scott
    • Links with the past: Old miniatures - Martin Haile
    • At Montmirail in 1814: A fragment of autobiography - Emma Marie Caillard
    • Ruskin in Venice - Alvise Zorzi

    • A Scotchman at Mars-La-Tour - Campbell von Laurentz
    • The face of the land - F. Warre Cornish
    • For better, for worse - Martin Ross
    • Ruskin in Venice II - Alvise Zorzi
    • House-breakers in the Alps - D. G. H.-G.
    • The origin of life - W. A. Shenstone
      ...

    The Eclectic Review

    The Edinburgh Review

    Vol. 78 (1843)

    • Free trade and retaliation
    • Life of a Travelling Physician
    • Beechey's "Voyages Towards the North Pole"
    • Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing
    • Parisian morals and manners
    • Mexico and the great western prairies
    • Life and writings of Joseph Addison

    • Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner
    • Hay on harmonious colouring and form
    • Ritter von Lang's life and times
    • Royal Society of Literature - Anglo-Saxon literary biography
    • Dramatic reform - Classification of theatres
    • Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries
    • Travels in Yucatan - ruins and antiquities of Central America
    • Jeremy Bentham
    • The Ministry and the late session

    Vol. 136 (1872)

    • Complete works of Bishop Berkeley
    • The Stuarts at Saint Germains
    • Helps' "Thoughts on Government"
    • The Popes and the Italian humanists
    • The southern states since the war
    • Memoirs of the Marquis of Pombal
    • Researches on life and disease
    • Reform in Japan
    • The Bennett judgment

    • Corea
    • New Shakspearian interpretations
    • Memorials of Baron Stockmar
    • Terrestrial magnetism
    • The past and future of naval tactics
    • The Fiji Islands
    • The life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke
    • The progress of medicine and surgery
    • Grote's "Aristotle"
    • The past and future of naval tactics

    Vol. 281 (1873)

    • The Trevelyan Papers
    • The Talmud
    • Baron Hubner's "Trip Round the World"
    • The savings of the people
    • Life of Sir Henry Lawrence
    • The approaching Transit of Venus
    • Miss Thackeray's "Old Kensington"
    • Fergusson on "Rude Stone Monuments"
    • The life and labours of Antoine Court
    • Personal memoir of Mr. Grote
    • Recent events in Afghanistan

    The Review was not without its entertaining detractors:

    English Historical Review

    Vol. 15 (1900)

    • The Sienese Statues of 1262 (1-19) - E. Armstrong
    • The disappearance of English serfdom (20-37) - Edward P. Cheney
    • The Dutch power in Brazil (38-57) - George Edmundson
    • The state and education during the Commonwealth (58-72) - Foster Watson
    • Book reviews:
      • "The Philosophical Theory of the State" by Bernard Bosanquet - W. G. Pogson Smith
      • "Authority and Archaeology, Sacred and Profane" ed. by D. G. Hogarth - G. McN. Rushforth
      • "Egyptian Chronology" by F. G. Fleay - F. Ll. Griffith
      • "Documents relatifs a l'Histoire de l'Industrie et du Commerce en France" by Par Gustave Fagniez - F. W. Maitland
      • "The Heart of Asia: A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times" by Francis Henry Skrine - Stanley Lane-Poole
      • "Yule and Christmas: Their Place in the Germanic Year" by Alexander Tille - Henry Bradley
      • (ancient Turkish history book reviews)
      • "Italy and Her Invaders" by Thomas Hodgkin - E. W. Brooks
      • "Le Chateau Gaillard; Etude de l'Architecture Militaire au XIII Siecle" by Par Marcel Dieulafoy - A.
    • The Scottish parliament before the Union of the Crowns, I (209-237) - Robert S. Rait
    • The relations of Defoe and Harley (238-250) - Thomas Bateson
    • The foreign policy of England under Walpole, I (251-276) - Basil Williams
    • Colonel Cradock's missions to Egypt (277-287) - Alfred Stern
    • The Scottish parliament before the Union of the Crowns, II (417-444) - Robert S. Rait
    • The regulation of wages in the sixteenth century (445-455) - Ellen A. McArthur
    • Humanism under Francis I (456-478) - Arthur Tilley
    • The foreign policy of England under Walpole, II (479-494) - Basil Williams
    • Customs of the Western Pyrenees (625-640) - A. R. Whiteway
    • Colchester during the Commonwealth (641-664) - J. H. Round
    • The foreign policy of England under Walpole, III (665-698) - Basil Williams
    • Nelson at Naples (699-727) - A. T. Mahan

    The English Illustrated Magazine

    Vol. 8 (1891)

    • The new trade-union movement - Urquhart A. Forbes
    • The "Vicar of Wakefield" and its illustrators - Austin Dobson
    • In New Guineau - Hume Nisbet
    • Edinburgh - Mrs. Oliphant
    • Winchester College - Earl of Selborne
    • Children's Happy Evenings - Mrs. Jeune
    • A holiday in South Africa - M. Kelly
    • Microscopic labourers and how they serve us - Percy F. Frankland
    • A Royal surgical nurse - E. Sellers
    • The ancestral home of the Washingtons - William Clarke
    • A painter of players - J. Fitzgerald Molloy
    • Working men's clubs - Bishop of Bedford
    • Inns and taverns of old London - Philip Norman
    • The Frogmousiad - H. Kynaston
    • Nooks and corners in Westminster Abbey - Archdeacon Farrar
    • Patriotic airs - J. Cuthbert Hadden
    • English convent life - Sister Aloysia
    • An adventure in San Francisco - Charles Dumaresq
    • Association football - C. W. Alcock
    • La Grande Chartreuse: A lonely island of prayer - Donald M. Spence
    • Cabs and their drivers - W. Outram Tristram
    • The education of genius - James Sully
    • Bookbinding - T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
    • To the east, Westwards! Our empire highway - George Baden-Powell
    • Russian girlhood - Madame Romanoff
    • Norwich - R. Owen Allsop
    • British Guiana - Charles Bruce
    • Thoughts in prison - Mrs. Watts-Jones
    • Across the North Atlantic in a torpedo boat - An officer on board
      ...

    The Foreign Quarterly Review

    Vol. 30 (1843)

    • French criticism of English writers
    • Anselm of Canterbury
    • Celebrated crimes
    • The first philosophers of Greece
    • Russegger's travels in Europe
    • Travelling romancers: Dumas on the Rhine
    • Letters of Margaret of Navarre
    • Naples and the Neapolitans
    • Gervinus on German literature
    • The Idyls of Theocritus
    • Memoirs of Barere
    • The newspaper literature of America

    • Hoffmeister on Schiller
    • Charles Gutzkow's Paris
    • Socrates and the sophists of Athens
    • Balzac's "Provincial Bachelor's Household"
    • The Countess Hahn-Hahn's letters
    • Francesco Forti's "Civil Institutes"
    • George Sand's "Consuelo"
    • The King of Saxony's travels in Montenegro
    • Alfred de Musset's "White Thrush"
    • Klopstock
    • The newspaper press of France

    The London Quarterly Review

    Vol. 109 (1861)

    • Canada and the north-west
    • The Welsh and their literature
    • The united Netherlands
    • The Iron manufacture
    • Italy
    • The dogs of history and romance
    • The income-tax and its rivals
    • Essays and reviews

    • The pearls and mock-pearls of history
    • Euphuism
    • Lord Dundonald
    • Spiritual destitution in the metropolis
    • German, Flemish and Dutch art
    • African discovery
    • Lord Stanhope's "Life of Pitt"
    • Indian currency, finance, and legislation

    Vol. 110 (1861)

    • Thomas de Quincey
    • Montalembert on western monachism
    • The English translators of Virgil
    • Maine's "Ancient Law"
    • Scottish character
    • Russia on the Amoor
    • Cavour
    • Democracy on its trial

    • Life of Shelley
    • Life, enterprise, and peril in coal-mines
    • The immutability of nature
    • Newton as a scientific discoverer
    • The growth of English poetry
    • Plutarch
    • Education of the poor
    • Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Church-rates

    The Quarterly Review

    Vol. 153 (1882)

    • New Testament revision: The New English Version
    • Politics and parties in the United States
    • Sir Charles Lyell
    • The Jacobin conquest: Taine, Wallon, Schmidt, Mortimer-Terneaux
    • Darwin on earth-worms
    • The Comte de Montlosier
    • Fishes and their habits
    • The liberal work of two years

    • New Testament revision: Westcott and Hort's Textual Theory
    • Jonathan Swift
    • English poets and Oxford critics
    • Life and letters of De Busbecq
    • Mr. Lecky's "England in the Eighteenth Century"
    • Journals of Caroline Fox
    • The Manchester School: Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright
    • What shall be done with Ireland?