Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Printed in Edinburgh Vols. III-IV "2d series." Reprinted in part from the National review, Fortnightly review, Cornhill magazine, Nineteenth century, Quarterly review, and Monthly review I. National biography. The evolution of editors. John Byrom. Johnsoniana. Gibbon's autobiography. Arthur Young. Wordsworth's youth.--II. The story of Scott's ruin. The importation of German. Matthew Arnold. Jowett's life. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Tennyson. Pascal.--III. The Browning letters. John Donne. John Ruskin. William Godwin's novels. Walter Bagehot. Thomas Henry Huxley. James Anthony Froude. In praise of walking.--IV. Shakespeare as a man. Southey's letters. New lights on Milton. Emerson. Anthony Trollope. Robert Louis Stevenson. The cosmopolitan spirit in literature