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Early recollections.--Early ventures with a 'prentice pen.--Philosophy.--The metempsychosis of ideas.--Reading.--Mrs. Leo Hunter.--Geology.--Talk.--Critics.--Novels comfortable and uncomfortable.--The pulpit.--"The play's the thing."--A chapter in history [John Paul Jones--My curiosities of literature.--Lectures.--Conversation.--Mad poets.--Writing.--Books and art.--Miscellaneous matters.--My right to write.--Laissez-faire.--Some sayings.--Land-taxers.--Some political gossip.--Herbert Spencer.--About politics and parties.--Nineteenth-century politics.--Humour at elections.--Some men.--Politics and the future.--Thoroughness in politics.--Socialism and syndicalism.--Some politicians.--Some stray reminiscences.--Index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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.

Includes index. ; Includes legislation. ; Spine title: The law of rating. ; Mode of access: Internet.