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| [John Henry Newman]—(Born in 1801, died in 1890.) | |||
| I | [The Beginnings of Tractarianism.] | ||
| (From the "Apologia pro Vita Sua") | [3] | ||
| II | [On His Submission to the Catholic Church.] | ||
| (From the "Apologia") | [7] | ||
| III | [Of Athens as a True University.] | ||
| (From Volume III of the "Historical Sketches") | [13] | ||
| [Edward Bulwer Lytton]—(Born in 1803, died in 1873.) | |||
| [The Descent of Vesuvius on Pompeii.] | |||
| (From "The Last Days of Pompeii") | [21] | ||
| [Lord Beaconsfield]—(Born in 1804, died in 1881.) | |||
| [Jerusalem by Moonlight.] | |||
| (From "Tancred") | [31] | ||
| [Charles Merivale]—(Born in 1808, died in 1893.) | |||
| [The Personality of Augustus Cæsar.] | |||
| (From the "History of the Romans Under the Empire") | [37] | ||
| [Alexander W. Kinglake]—(Born in 1809, died in 1891.) | |||
| I | [On Mocking at the Sphinx.] | ||
| (From "Eothen") | [42] | ||
| II | [The Beginnings of the Crimean War.] | ||
| (From "The Invasion of the Crimea") | [44] | ||
| [Charles Darwin]—(Born in 1809, died in 1882.) | |||
| I | [On Variations in Mammals, Birds and Fishes.] | ||
| (From "The Origin of Species") | [47] | ||
| II | [The Genesis of a Great Book.] | ||
| (From the "Autobiography," printed in Volume I of the "Life and Letters") | [51] | ||
| [John Brown]—(Born in 1810, died in 1882.) | |||
| [Rab and the Game Chicken.] | |||
| (From "Rab and His Friends") | [56] | ||
| [William M. Thackeray]—(Born in 1811, died in 1863.) | |||
| I | [The Imperturbable Marlborough.] | ||
| (From "The History of Henry Esmond") | [62] | ||
| II | [At the Ball Before the Battle of Waterloo.] | ||
| (From "Vanity Fair") | [65] | ||
| III | [The Death of Colonel Newcome.] | ||
| (From "The Newcomes") | [75] | ||
| IV | [London in the Time of the First George.] | ||
| (From the "Four Georges") | [80] | ||
| [Charles Dickens]—(Born in 1812, died in 1870.) | |||
| I | [Sidney Carton's Death.] | ||
| (The conclusion of "A Tale of Two Cities") | [86] | ||
| II | [Bob Sawyer's Party.] | ||
| (From Chapter XXXI of "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club") | [88] | ||
| III | [Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness.] | ||
| (From Chapters LVII and LVIII of "The Old Curiosity Shop") | [97] | ||
| IV | [A Happy Return of the Day.] | ||
| (From Book III, Chapter IV, of "Our Mutual Friend") | [105] | ||
| [Charlotte Bronte]—(Born in 1816, died in 1855.) | |||
| [Of the Author of "Vanity Fair."] | |||
| (Preface to the second edition of "Jane Eyre") | [119] | ||
| [James Anthony Froude]—(Born in 1818, died in 1894.) | |||
| I | [Of History as a Science.] | ||
| (From "Short Studies on Great Subjects") | [122] | ||
| II | [The Character of Henry VIII.] | ||
| (From the "History of England") | [132] | ||
| III | [Cæsar's Mission.] | ||
| (From the concluding chapter of "Cæsar—A Sketch") | [136] | ||
| [John Ruskin]—(Born in 1819, died in 1900.) | |||
| I | [Of the History and Sovereignty of Venice.] | ||
| (From Chapter I of "The Stones of Venice") | [140] | ||
| II | [St. Mark's at Venice.] | ||
| (From Vol. II of "The Stones of Venice") | [151] | ||
| III | [Of Water.] | ||
| (From Vol. II, Section V, of "Modern Painters") | [159] | ||
| [George Eliot]—(Born in 1819, died in 1880.) | |||
| [At the Hall Farm.] | |||
| (From "Adam Bede") | [167] | ||
| [Herbert Spencer]—(Born in 1820, died in 1904.) | |||
| I | [The Origin of Professional Occupations.] | ||
| (From Volume III of "The Principles of Sociology") | [173] | ||
| II | [Self-Dependence and Paternalism.] | ||
| (From the "Essays, Moral, Political and Esthetic") | [181] | ||
| III | [The Ornamental and the Useful in Education.] | ||
| (From "Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical") | [186] | ||
| IV | [Reminiscences of His Boyhood.] | ||
| (From Part I, Chapter II, of the "Autobiography") | [191] | ||
| V | [A Tribute to E. L. Youmans.] | ||
| (From Part VII of the "Autobiography") | [195] | ||
| VI | [Why He Never Married]. | ||
| (From Part XII of the "Autobiography") | [197] | ||
| [Henry Thomas Buckle]—(Born in 1821, died in 1862.) | |||
| I | [The Isolation of Spain.] | ||
| (From Vol. II, Chapter VIII, of the "History of Civilization in England") | [198] | ||
| II | [George III and the Elder Pitt.] | ||
| (From Vol. I, Chapter VII, of the "History of Civilization in England") | [204] | ||
| [Matthew Arnold]—(Born in 1822, died in 1888.) | |||
| [The Motive for Culture.] | |||
| (From "Culture and Anarchy") | [208] | ||
| [Edward A. Freeman]—(Born in 1823, died in 1892.) | |||
| [The Death of William the Conqueror.] | |||
| (From "The History of the Norman Conquest") | [214] | ||
| [Thomas Henry Huxley]—(Born in 1825, died in 1895.) | |||
| [On a Piece of Chalk.] | |||
| (From "Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews") | [219] | ||
| [Frederic Harrison]—(Born in 1831.) | |||
| [The Great Books of the World.] | |||
| (From an address on "The Choice of Books") | [230] | ||
| [John Richard Green]—(Born in 1837, died in 1883.) | |||
| [George Washington.] | |||
| (From Book IV, Chapter II, of the "History of the English People") | [242] | ||
| [John Morley]—(Born in 1838.) | |||
| [Voltaire as an Author and as a Man of Action.] | |||
| (From "Voltaire") | [244] | ||
| [Robert Louis Stevenson]—(Born in 1850, died in 1894.) | |||
| I | [Francis Villon's Terrors.] | ||
| (From "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon") | [247] | ||
| II | [The Lantern Bearers.] | ||
| (From "Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays") | [251] | ||
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—IV
1801-1909
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
Born in 1801, died in 1890; son of a banker; educated at Oxford; a Fellow of Oriel in 1822, where he was associated with Dr. Pusey; made a voyage to the Mediterranean in 1832-33, returning from which he wrote "Lead, Kindly Light"; joined the Oxford movement in 1833, writing many of the "tracts for the times"; formally joined the Catholic Church in 1845; established an Oratory in 1849; published "Lectures" in 1850, the "Apologia" in 1864, "Grammar of Ascent" in 1870; made a cardinal in 1879.