PROSE MASTERPIECES

FROM

MODERN ESSAYISTS

Froude, Freeman, Gladstone, Newman, Leslie Stephen

NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1891

The Knickerbocker Press
Electrotyped and Printed by
G. P. Putnam's Sons

CONTENTS.

The Science of History. By James Anthony Froude[3]
Race and Language. By Edward A. Freeman[55]
Kin Beyond Sea. By William Ewart Gladstone[151]
Private Judgment. By John Henry Newman[221]
An Apology for Plainspeaking. By Leslie Stephen[281]