Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. Two letters from Mrs. Carlyle's "Letters and Memorials," and one letter from Sir G. O. Trevelyan's "Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay."

Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Three letters from "The Letters of Charles Dickens"; one letter by FitzGerald and one by Thomas Carlyle, from "Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald"; one letter from "Charles Kingsley: his Letters and Memories of his Life"; and two extracts from "Further Records, 1848-1883," by Frances Anne Kemble.

Mr. John Murray. One letter from "The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning."

GEORGE SAINTSBURY.

1 Royal Crescent, Bath,
October, 1921.

CONTENTS

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Preface[v]
Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing[1]
I. Ancient History. II. Letters in English—before1700. III. The Eighteenth Century. IV. NineteenthCentury Letters—Early. V. NineteenthCentury Letters—Later. VI. Some Special Kindsof Letter. VII. Conclusion.
Appendix to Introduction:
Greek Letters—Synesius[100]
(i) To his Brother—Preparations to meet Raiders.
(ii) To Hypatia—Longing but unable to come to her.
Latin Letters—Pliny[102]
Accepts a Brief for a Lady.
Letters of the "Dark" Ages—Sidonius Apollinaris[105]
The exploits of Ecdicius.
Early Mediaeval (Twelfth Century) Letter[108]
Duchess of Burgundy to King Louis VII.—Matchmaking.
ENGLISH LETTERS
The "Paston" Letters[111]
1. A Channel Fight.
2. Margery is Willing.
Roger Ascham[116]
3. "Up the Rhine."
4. Nostalgia for Cambridge.
Lady Mary Sidney[122]
5. Have you no room at Court?
George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland[125]
6. A Death-bed letter.
John Donne[129]
7-10. Letters to Magdalen Lady Herbert.
James Howell[135]
11. "Long Melford for Ever."
12. The White Bird.
John Evelyn[139]
13. How to take care of ears, eyes and brains.
Dorothy Osborne[146]
14. A discourse of Flying, and several other things.
15. Some testimonies of kindness.
Jonathan Swift[154]
16. Letter-hunger.
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu[159]
17. Directions for running away with her.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield[164]
18. Some manners that make a gentleman.
George Ballard[173]
19. The wickedness of Reviewers.
Thomas Gray[180]
20. Romanities and Plain English.
21. Kent, Rousseau, Lord Chatham, etc.
Horace Walpole (and W. M. Thackeray)[187]
22. What Horace wrote.
23. What Horace might have written.
Tobias George Smollett[195]
24. Of Johnson, and Johnson's Frank—To Wilkes.
William Cowper[197]
25. About a Greenhouse.
Sydney Smith[201]
26. Vegetation, stagnation, and assassination.
27. His "hotel." Hasty judgments deprecated.
Sir Walter Scott[206]
28. Authors and Morals.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge[212]
29. From Spinosa to Gobwin through things in general.
Robert Southey[217]
30-33. The Lingo Grande.
Charles Lamb[221]
34. A Sigh for Solitude.
George Gordon, Lord Byron[228]
35. Of Pictures, and Sepulture, and his Daughters.
Percy Bysshe Shelley[233]
36. Of Pictures only.
John Keats[239]
37. A Voyage, and the Quarterly and Charmian.
The Carlyles[244]
38. Thomas on Latrappism.
39. Jane Welsh on her Travels.
40. Jane Welsh on the blessings of Photography.
Thomas Babington Macaulay[253]
41. Outfits, and Election Dinners. Miss Berry andLady Holland.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes[258]
42. Stage-coach tricks, and stage-play ghosts.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning[263]
43. An extended Honey-moon.
Edward FitzGerald[270]
44. Of Bath, and Oxford, and some Immortals.
Francis Anne Kemble[275]
45. A Ghost in Flannel.
46. Bakespearism.
William Makepeace Thackeray[279]
47. As himself.
48. In character.
Charles Dickens[286]
49. Straight dealing with the personages of NicholasNickleby.
50. Advice to an Innocent in London.
51. Mr. and Mrs. Harris.
Charles Kingsley[292]
52. Tom Brown's Schooldays; Pike fishing; and apretty thing with Garth's.
John Ruskin[296]
53. The Servant question.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson[303]
54. John Gibson Lockhart, and an Umbrella.