Criticism Books

The Humour of Holland

W. H. Dircks

The humour of the Netherlands has, in common with that of Scotland, a certain canniness and practical shrewdness, characteristic of men and nations who have bought their experience at first hand and a..

Toleration and other essays

Voltaire

The position of Voltaire in the development of religious thought in Europe is unique. Even if his words had no application in our age, it merits the most grateful consideration. Trace to its sources t..

Essay on the Principles of Translation

Alexander Fraser Tytler

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, author of the present essay on Translation, and of various works on Universal and on Local History, was one of that Edinburgh circle which was revolving whe..

What Is Art?

Graf Leo Tolstoy

Again, the newspapers last year printed proposals to construct a Wagner Opera House, to cost, if I recollect rightly, £100,000—about as much as a hundred labourers may earn by fifteen or twenty years’..

Seeking His Fortune, and Other Dialogues

Jr. Horatio Alger

Nearly all the dialogues in the present collection were originally contributed to a juvenile magazine in New York. Many of them have been used at exhibitions in different parts of the country, and met..

Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Percy Fitzgerald

There is a spectacle often witnessed in the manufacturing counties, when we may be standing waiting in one of the great stations, which leaves a melancholy impression. A huge theatrical train containi..

Plague and pestilence in literature and art

Raymond Crawfurd

This volume represents substantially the FitzPatrick Lectures which I had the privilege of delivering at the Royal College of Physicians in 1912. I have turned my attention, as far as practicable, onl..

Familiar Studies in Homer

Agnes M. Clerke

The author’s best thanks are due to Messrs. Macmillan, and to Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, for their courteous permission to reprint the chapters entitled ‘Homeric Astronomy,’ ‘Homer’s Magic Herbs,’ ..