Essays in Little - Classic Reprint Author:Andrew Lang PREFACE. — OF the following essays, five are new~ and were — written for this volume. They arc the paper — on 11r. R L. Stevenson, the cc Letter to a Young — Journalist," the study of Mr. Kipling, the note on — Homer, and "The Last Fashionable Novel." The — article on the author of ~(Oh, no t we never mention — Her," appeared In the New York Sun, and w... more »as
suggested by Mr. Dana, the editor of that journa1.
The papers on Thackeray and Dickens were published
in Good 11lords, that on Dumas appeared in
Sc-n'bncy's .AI agazine, that on M. Theodore de Banville
in The New Quarterly Review. The other essays
were originally written for a. newspaper" Syndicate.".
They have been re-cast, augmented, and, to a great
extent, re-written.
A L.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; ALEXANDRE DUMAS ? ?; MR S'rEVENSON'S WORKS ?; THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY; TH'OnORR DE ~A'NVILr,E ?; ?; ? ?; ?; HOMER AND THE STUDY OF GREEK; THE LAST FASHIONABLE NOVEL; THACKERAY; DICKENS; ?; ?; ADVENTURES OF BUCCANEERS ~; THE SAGAS ,"; CHARLES KINGSLEY ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; fACI; ? I; ? 24; ? 36; · 5t; ? 77; ? 93; ?; 103; ? 118; " 132; ? 141; " 153; CHARLES LEVER: HIS BOOKS ADVENTURES AND lllSFORTUNES; THE POEMS OF SIR WAtTER SCOTT; JOHN BUNYAN; LEITER TO A YOUNG JOURNALIST ?; MR K1PLING'S Sl'OfUES ? ? ?; ?; ? 160; I 171; ? 182; ? ? ? 191; ? ? ? 198
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