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Miscellanies

Print Book, English, 1860
J.W. Parker and Son, London, 1860
2 volumes 20 cm
10017287
I. Sir Walter Raleigh and his time. ʻA mad world, my masters. ̓My winter garden. Chalk-stream studies. Tennyson. The poetry of sacred and legendary art. Alexander Smith and Alexander Pope. Thoughts on Shelley and Byron. Hours with the mystics. Burns and his school
II. Mansfield's Paraguay, Brazil, and the Plate. Froude's History of England. Plays and Puritans. The agricultural crisis. The water supply of London. North Devon
a prose idyl. Speech in behalf of the Ladies' sanitary association, 1859. Great cities, and their influence for good and evil. On the study of natural history. Thoughts in a gravel-pit
"Reprinted chiefly from 'Fraser's magazine ̓and the 'North British review."̓