Chapter I. |
Philosophers |
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By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- The economics of Ricardo
- James Mill
- Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind
- Thomas Brown
- Sir William Hamilton
- Mansel
- John Stuart Mill
- System of Logic
- Utilitarianism
- On Liberty
- Political Economy
- Jevons
- George Grote; Alexander Bain
- George Croom Robertson
- The influence of Comte
- Rational and Religious Philosophers; John Grote
- Frederick Denison Maurice; Newman’s Grammar of Assent; William George Ward
- Martineau
- Herbert Spencer and the Philosophy of Evolution
- Darwin
- George Henry Lewes
- Huxley
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Leslie Stephen
- Maine’s Ancient Law
- Bagehot
- Henry Sidgwick; The Methods of Ethics
- Shadworth Hodgson
- Idealists
- Ferrier’s Institutes of Metaphysic
- Stirling’s Secret of Hegel
- Thomas Hill Green
- Prolegomena to Ethics
- William Wallace
- John Caird and Edward Caird
- Francis Herbert Bradley
- Alexander Campbell Fraser
- Robert Adamson
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II. |
Historians, Biographers and Political Orators |
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By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Sharon Turner
- Lingard
- Henry Hallam
- Sir James Mackintosh
- Macaulay
- Lays of Ancient Rome
- Essays
- History of England
- Sir Archibald Alison
- Sir Francis Palgrave
- John Mitchell Kemble
- Freeman
- The History of the Norman Conquest
- Stubbs
- The Constitutional History of England
- John Richard Green
- A Short History of the English People
- Sir Henry Maine
- J. E. Thorold Rogers
- Frederic Seebohm
- Frederic William Maitland
- Mary Bateson
- J. S. Brewer
- James Gairdner
- Froude
- History of England
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
- Coxe
- Earl Stanhope
- Goldwin Smith
- Sir J. R. Seeley
- Harriet Martineau
- W. N. Molesworth
- Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea
- P. F. Tytler
- John Hill Burton
- Andrew Lang
- J. P. Prendergast
- Sir J. T. Gilbert
- C. L. Falkiner
- James Mill’s History of India
- Sir A. C. Lyall
- J. A. Doyle; E. J. Payne
- Creighton; History of the Papacy
- W. E. Collins; J. H. Overton; W. R. Stephens; T. G. Law
- T. McCrie
- Buckle’s History of Civilization
- Lecky; History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe; The History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
- A History of England in the Eighteenth Century
- Biographers and Memoir-Writers; Lockhart
- Scott
- Moore
- Southey
- Roscoe
- Mark Pattison
- Sir James Stephen
- Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland
- Mrs. M. A. Everett Green
- Sir Theodore Martin
- Masson’s Life of Milton
- John Forster
- The Greville Memoirs
- The Croker Papers
- The Creevey Papers
- N. W. Senior
- Lord Acton
- Political Orators and Writers of Pamphlets; William Wilberforce
- Windham
- Whitbread
- Erskine
- Tierney
- Canning
- Brougham
- Orators of the Reform Bill period
- Palmerston
- Plunket
- Daniel O’Connell
- Richard Lalor Sheil
- Sir Robert Peel
- Edward Stanley, fourteenth earl of Derby
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Richard Cobden; John Bright
- Gladstone
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III. |
Critical and Miscellaneous Prose
JOHN RUSKIN AND OTHERS |
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By HUGH WALKER, LL.D., Professor of English at St. David’s College, Lampeter
- Abraham Hayward
- John Doran
- George Brimley; E. S. Dallas; The Gay Science
- James Hannay
- Richard Holt Hutton
- Bagehot
- Sir Leslie Stephen
- Watts-Dunton
- Borrow
- Traill
- Dowden
- Henley
- Ruskin; Modern Painters
- Haydon
- Mrs. Jameson
- J. Addington Symonds
- Walter Pater
- Oscar Wilde
- Hugh Miller; W. and R. Chambers
- John Brown; Rab and his Friends
- Alexander Smith
- A. K. H. Boyd; John Skelton
- R. L. Stevenson
- W. B. Rands; Sir Arthur Helps; W. R. Greg
- Andrew Lang
- Laurence Oliphant
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Richard Jefferies
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IV. |
The Growth of Journalism |
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By J. S. R. PHILLIPS, Editor of The Yorkshire Post, Leeds
- Eighteenth Century Newspapers
- Literary and Art Criticism; The Drama
- Politics
- The War Correspondent
- Progress of journalism in the Victorian era
- Jerdan
- The Times; The Walters
- Delane
- The Stuarts and The Morning Post
- James Perry and The Morning Chronicle
- The Standard
- The Morning Advertiser
- The Daily News
- The Daily Telegraph
- The Halfpenny morning press
- The Penny evening papers
- Weekly illustrated papers
- The Hour
- The Press
- The Examiner
- The Spectator
- The Saturday Review
- The Scots Observer
- The Guardian
- The Athenaeum
- Illustrated papers
- The Observer
- The Pilot; The Tribune
- The “Provincial” Press
- The Manchester Guardian
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University Journalism |
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By VERNON HORACE RENDALL, sometime Scholar of Trinity College
- Calverley
- A. C. Hilton
- The Cambridge Review
- The Granta
- The Oxford Magazine
- The Isis
- Scottish and Irish University Journals
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VI. |
Caricature and the Literature of Sport
“PUNCH” |
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By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Hogarth
- Gillray
- Boydell
- Ackermann; Bunbury; Rowlandson
- Combe
- Dr. Syntax
- Gilpin
- The Microcosm of London
- Pierce Egan; Life in London
- The English Spy
- James Catnach
- The Newgate Calendar
- The Literature of Pugilism and Hunting
- “Nimrod”
- Surtees
- Bewick
- Punch
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VII. |
The Literature of Travel, 1700–1900 |
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By F. A. KIRKPATRICK, M.A., Trinity College
- William Dampier
- Woodes Rogers
- Anson
- Cook
- James Bruce
- Clarke
- Barrow
- Waterton; Darwin; Wallace
- Richard Ford
- Borrow
- Warburton; Eothen
- Curzon’s Monasteries of the Levant
- Sir Richard Burton
- W. G. Palgrave
- A. H. Layard
- Speke
- Winwood Reade; Mary Kingsley
- Peaks, passes and glaciers
- Dilke’s Greater Britain
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VIII. |
The Literature of Science |
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- PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
By W. W. ROUSE BALL, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College
- Cambridge mathematicians
- The British Association
- Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences
- Michael Faraday
- De Morgan
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton
- J. J. Sylvester
- John Couch Adams
- Cayley
- H. J. S. Smith
- Sir George Darwin
- George Green
- Sir George Stokes
- Lord Kelvin
- James Clerk Maxwell
- CHEMISTRY
By M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
- The study of material changes
- Four main lines of advance in chemistry since the later years of the eighteenth century
- Priestley and Cavendish
- Black
- The Atomic Theory and Dalton
- Williamson
- Frankland
- Sir Humphry Davy; Electricity and Chemical Affinity
- Thomas Graham
- Faraday
- BIOLOGY
By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College
- The Royal Society
- Nehemiah Grew
- Ray and Willughby
- Robert Hooke
- Stephen Hales
- Museums
- Botanic Gardens
- Learned Societies
- Scientific Journals
- Exploration: Sir Joseph Banks; Robert Brown
- J. S. Henslow
- Lindley
- Berkeley
- James Hutton
- John Playfair
- William Smith
- Adam Sedgwick
- Scrope
- de la Beche
- Lyell
- Sorby
- Murchison
- Buckland
- Richard Owen
- Edward Forbes
- The voyage of “The Challenger”
- Central America
- Darwin
- Wallace
- The Origin of Species
- Sir Joseph Hooker
- Research after Darwin; Huxley
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Anglo-Irish Literature |
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By ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A.
- Gaelic and Classical Literature
- Gaelic Poetry
- Translations
- Irish influence on English Literature
- Geoffrey Keating
- James Ussher
- The Sheridans
- Le Fanu
- National Folk-ballads and other writings
- Maginn
- Lever
- Lover
- Crofton Croker
- Carleton
- Patrick Kennedy
- Mahony
- The Banims
- Thomas Osborne Davis
- McGee
- Sir Samuel Ferguson
- Griffin
- National Songs
- Women writers
- Later writers
- Synge
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Anglo-Indian Literature |
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By EDWARD FARLEY OATEN, M.A., LL.B., Indian Educational Service, Professor of History at the Presidency College, Calcutta
- Early historians
- William Browne Hockley; Philip Meadows Taylor; The mutiny
- The later historians
- Sir Edwin Arnold; Sir Alfred Lyall
- Bankin Chandra Chatterji
- Torulata Dutt
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XI. |
English-Canadian Literature |
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By PELHAM EDGAR, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Professor of English Literature in Victoria College, University of Toronto
- Haliburton
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Archibald Lampman
- William Henry Drummond
- Lesser Poets
- Historians
- Novelists
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XII. |
The Literature of Australia and New Zealand |
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By HAROLD CHILD
- Charles Harpur
- Henry Clarence Kendall
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- James Brunton Stephens
- Henry Kingsley and William Howitt; Marcus Clarke: “Rolf Boldrewood”
- Historians
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XIII. |
South African Poetry |
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By Sir T. HERBERT WARREN, K.C.V.O., President of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Thomas Pringle
- Afar in the Desert
- The Bechuana Boy
- Anthologies
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XIV. |
Education |
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By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King’s College, London, and Professor of Education in the University of London
- The industrial revolution
- French and German education
- The universities
- Nonconformist academies
- Public schools
- Education of girls
- Elementary education
- Chesterfield’s Letters
- The Edgeworths
- Wordsworth
- Priestley
- Study of English
- Thomas Sheridan
- The Scottish School of Rhetoric
- Education and the state
- Mrs. Trimmer
- Bell and Lancaster
- Robert Owen
- Brougham and The Edinburgh Review
- Mechanics’ institutes
- Adult education
- English and Scottish universities
- The university of London
- Tutors versus professors
- Public School reform
- William Ellis
- Ruskin
- Newman
- The state assumes responsibility for elementary education; The revised code
- Spencer
- Royal Commissions
- Arnold and secondary education
- John Stuart Mill
- Essays on a liberal education
- Edward Thring
- The Education Act of 1870
- Alexander Bain
- The education of women
- Universities and research
- The new universities
- The legislation of 1902
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Changes in the Language since Shakespeare’s Time |
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By W. MURISON, M.A., Aberdeen
- The world-wide expansion of the English language
- Changes in pronunciation
- Changes in spelling
- Changes in grammar
- Vocabulary
- Methods of word-making
- Influx of foreign words
- Plain and ornate style
- Afterword
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