Edited by the author's wife, Kathleen Lyttelton "The essays included in this volume originally appeared in the 'Church Quarterly Review', and were--with the exception of that on Tennyson, which came out in 1893--written between 1878 and 1883." "The pagan reaction under the Emperor Julian", written in 1880, is a review of: 1. The Emperor Julian--paganism and Christianity...By G. H. Rendall, Cambridge, 1879. 2. Geschichte der Reaction Kaiser Julians gegen die christliche Kirche. Von F. Rode. Jena, 1877. 3. Julien l'Apostat et sa philosophie der polythéisme. Par H. A. Naville. Paris, 1877 Memoir of the author.--Tennyson.--Browning.--The poetry of doubt (Arnold and Clough)--Carlyle's life and works.--George Eliot.--Modern pagan poetry (Swinburne and James Thomson)--The pagan reaction under the Emperor Julian