The choice of books (partly from Fortnightly review, April 1879): I. How to read. II. Poets of the old world. III. Poets of the modern world. IV. The misuse of books--Culture: a dialogue (Fortn. rev., Nov. 1867)--Past and present: a letter to Mr. Ruskin [in reply to one ... published in Fors clavigera for June 1876] (Fortn. rev., July 1876)--The romance of the peerage: Lothair (Fortn. rev., June 1870--Froude's Life of Carlyle (North Amer. rev., Jan. 1885)--The life of George Eliot [George Eliot's life ... Ed. by her husband, J. W. Cross, 1885] (Fortn. rev., March 1885)--Historic London (Macmillan's mag., Apr. 1884)--Opening of the courts of justice (The Times, Dec. 1882)--A plea for the Tower of London (The Times, July 1883)--The aesthete (Pall Mall gazette, May 1882)--At Burlington house (Pall Mall gazette May 1882)--Bernard of Clairvaux [review of Morison's Life and times of St. Bernard. 1863]--A few words about the eighteenth century (Nineteenth cent., March 1883)--Histories of the French revolution (North Amer. rev., Oct. 1883)--A few words about the nineteenth century (Fortn. rev., April 1882)