Essays, critical and political

Abstract

Of the twenty-four essays, nineteen are reprinted from the Westminister review, 1875-1886; two from the Times, 1876; one from thr National review, 1906; two here published for the first time. ; v.1. Critical: Charlotte Brontë.--George Eliot as a novelist.--Walter Savage Landor.--Michael Angelo.--Bleak house (Dickens).--Macready's reminiscences.--White conquest.--The warfare of science.--Nicolò Machiavelli and his times.--Theophrastus Such.--The art of acting.--Artistic copyright.--Henry Fawcett.--v.2. Political: Our colonial empire.-- Afghanistan.--The Africa slave trade.--Russia.--The cradle of the Blue Nile.--England in Egypt.--England's supremacy.--Gordon's journals.--Party government.--The coming social revolution.--The unemployed. ; Mode of access: Internet.