Lectures and essays / by Goldwin Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Goldwin
Format Book
Publication InfoToronto : Printed for the author, by Hunter, Rose & co., 1881.
Descriptionviii, 336 pages ; 23 cm

Contents The greatness of the Romans.--The greatness of England.--The great duel of the seventeenth century.--The lamps of fiction; a speech on the centenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott.--An address to the Oxford school of science and art.--The ascent of man.--The proposed substitutes for religion.-- The labour movement.--What is culpable luxury?--A true captain of industry [Mr. Brassey]--A wirepuller of kings [Baron Stockmar]--The early years of Abraham Lincoln.--Alfredus rex fundator.--The last republicans of Rome.--Austen-Leigh's memoir of Jane Austen.--Pattison's Milton.--Coleridge's life of Keble.
General noteAt head of title: Printed for private circulation.
General note"All the papers have been revised, so that they do not appear here exactly as they were in the periodicals from which they are reprinted."-- Prefatory note.
LCCN 06030032