_Contents_
FIRST SERIES: A Hermit's Notes on Thoreau--The Solitude of
Nathaniel Hawthorne--The Origins of Hawthorne and Poe--The
Influence of Emerson--The Spirit of Carlyle--The Science of English
Verse--Arthur Symonds: The Two Illusions--The Epic of Ireland--Two
Poets of the Irish Movement--Tolstoy; or, The Ancient Feud between
Philosophy and Art--The Religious Ground of Humanitarianism.
SECOND SERIES: Elizabethan Sonnets--Shakespeare's Sonnets--Lafcadio
Hearn--The First Complete Edition of Hazlitt--Charles Lamb--Kipling
and FitzGerald--George Crabbe--The Novels of George
Meredith--Hawthorne: Looking before and after--Delphi and Greek
Literature--Nemesis; or, The Divine Envy.
THIRD SERIES: The Correspondence of William Cowper--Whittier the
Poet--The Centenary of Sainte-Beuve--The Scotch Novels and Scotch
History--Swinburne--Christina Rossetti--Why is Browning Popular?--A
Note on Byron's "Don Juan"--Laurence Sterne--J. Henry
Shorthouse--The Quest.
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