The new times, and the poets and essayists as prophets of a new era.- John Ruskin's "Seven lamps of architecture" as interpreters of the seven laws of life ...- George Eliot's Tito, in "Romola" ...- Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter" and the retributive workings of conscience ...- Victor Hugo's "Les miserables".- Tennyson's "Idylls of the king".- The tragedy of the ten-talent men; a study of Browning's "Saul".- The memoirs of Henry Drummond, and the dawn of an era of friendship between science and religion.- The opportunities of leisure and wealth; an outlook upon the life of Lord Shaftesbury.- The biography of Frances Willard, and the heroes of social reform.- Blaikie's life of David Livingstone; a study of nineteenth-century heroism.- The Christian scholar in politics; a study of the life of William Ewart Gladstone 26