HENRY CABOT LODGE Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS W. HALSEY Associate Editor
The Best of the World's Classics VOL. VI GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IV 1801 1909
CONTENTS Vol. VI Great Britain and Ireland IV
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IV 1801-1909
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
I THE BEGINNINGS OF TRACTARIANISM [1]
II ON HIS SUBMISSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH [5]
III OF ATHENS AS A TRUE UNIVERSITY [7]
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
THE DESCENT OF VESUVIUS ON POMPEII [10]
LORD BEACONSFIELD
JERUSALEM BY MOONLIGHT [12]
CHARLES MERIVALE
THE PERSONALITY OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR [13]
ALEXANDER W. KINGLAKE
I ON MOCKING AT THE SPHINX [15]
II THE BEGINNING OF THE CRIMEAN WAR [16]
CHARLES DARWIN
I ON VARIATIONS IN MAMMALS, BIRDS AND FISHES [17]
II THE GENESIS OF A GREAT BOOK [18]
JOHN BROWN
RAB AND THE GAME CHICKEN [19]
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY
I THE IMPERTURBABLE MARLBOROUGH [20]
II AT THE BALL BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO [21]
III THE DEATH OF COLONEL NEWCOME [23]
IV LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST GEORGE [24]
CHARLES DICKENS
I SIDNEY CARTON'S DEATH [27]
II BOB SAWYER'S PARTY [28]
III DICK SWIVELLER AND THE MARCHIONESS [29]
IV A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY [30]
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
OF THE AUTHOR OF "VANITY FAIR" [31]
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
I OF HISTORY AS A SCIENCE [32]
II THE CHARACTER OF HENRY VIII [35]
III CAESAR'S MISSION [36]
JOHN RUSKIN
I OF THE HISTORY AND SOVEREIGNTY OF VENICE [37]
II ST. MARK'S AT VENICE [39]
III OF WATER [41]
GEORGE ELIOT
AT THE HALL FARM [43]
HERBERT SPENCER
I THE ORIGIN OF PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS [44]
II SELF-DEPENDENCE AND PATERNALISM [46]
III THE ORNAMENTAL AND THE USEFUL IN EDUCATION [48]
IV REMINISCENCES OF HIS BOYHOOD [50]
V A TRIBUTE TO E. L. YOUMANS [51]
VI WHY HE NEVER MARRIED [53]
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE
I THE ISOLATION OF SPAIN [54]
II GEORGE III AND THE ELDER PITT [56]
MATTHEW ARNOLD
THE MOTIVE FOR CULTURE [57]
EDWARD A. FREEMAN
THE DEATH OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR [58]
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
ON A PIECE OF CHALK [60]
FREDERIC HARRISON
THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WORLD [61]
JOHN RICHARD GREEN
GEORGE WASHINGTON [62]
JOHN MORLEY
VOLTAIRE AS AN AUTHOR AND AS A MAN OF ACTION [63]
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I FRANCIS VILLON'S TERRORS [64]
II THE LANTERN BEARERS [65]
Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland IV
Author: Various
Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge and Francis W. Halsey
Language: English
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