[1] As, for example, The Battle of Blenheim, The Inchcape Rock and The Cataract of Lodore.

[2] "The Nelson Memorial," by J. K. Laughton, 1896. "The Life of Nelson. The embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain," by Captain A. T. Mahan, 1897.

[3] "Select Poems of Wordsworth," by Matthew Arnold. "Golden Treasury Series."

[4] Charles Kingsley's "Two Years Ago" appeared the same year—in 1857.

[5] Reprinted in 1875 in "Essays and Studies."

[6] See "Poems and Prose Remains" by Arthur Hugh Clough, with a Selection from his Letters, and a Memoir, edited by his wife. 2 vols., 1888.

[7] All over the country the peasants chanted a ballad of which the burden is still remembered. Macaulay, History, Vol. II., p. 371.

[8] Charles Kingsley's novels and miscellaneous writings are published by Macmillan & Co., in twenty-nine volumes. Henry Kingsley's novels have been recently issued by Ward & Lock in twelve volumes.

[9] "The Collected Works of Charles Lever." Downey & Co.

[10] A New Library Edition of the novels of Wilkie Collins has just been published by Chatto and Windus.

[11] Froude's "History of England," vol. ii. chap. ix.

[12] "Lectures on the Council of Trent," "English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century," and "Life and Letters of Erasmus."

[13] "Memoirs of Mark Pattison."

[14] Mrs Thackeray-Ritchie, Harper's Magazine (1883).

[15] "Reminiscences," by Thomas Carlyle. 2nd Edition. Edited by C. E. Norton (1887).

[16] When George Eliot read Carlyle's eulogy on Emerson in introducing his essays to the British public, she wrote:—"I have shed many tears over it: this is a world worth abiding in while one man can thus venerate and love another."—Cross's "Life of George Eliot."

[17] Green's "Short History of the English People."

[18] "Autobiography" by John Stuart Mill (1869), pp. 232, 233.

[19] A contemporary epigram thus expressed the general feeling: