WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TOMBS AND MONUMENTS.
By the Author of ‘Sidney Grey,’ &c. and her Sister.
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GEORGE BRIMLEY’S ESSAYS.
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Contents:—I. Tennyson’s Poems; II. Wordsworth’s Poems; III. Poetry and Criticism; IV. Angel in the House; V. Carlyle’s Life of Sterling; VI. Esmond; VII. My Novel; VIII. Bleak House; IX. Westward Ho! X. Wilson’s Noctes; XI. Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
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