Papers which originally appeared in the Publishers' weekley in condensed form. cf. Preface.
Contents
Paradise Lost -- Gray's Elegy -- Keats's Poems -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- Pride and Prejudice -- Waverley -- Jane Eyre -- Moby-Dick -- The Luck of Roaring Camp -- Uncle Remus -- Treasure Island -- The Red Badge of Courage -- Two Years Before the Mast -- Emerson's Essays -- The Biglow Papers -- Walden -- The Song of Hiawatha -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table -- Little Women -- Bacon's Essays -- Gulliver's Travels -- The Decline and the Fall -- The Essays of Elia.
