A collection of famous English essays.



Contents

On song -- On an empty house -- The landfall -- The little old man -- The long march -- On saturnalia -- A little conversation in Herefordshire -- On the rights of property -- The economist -- A little conversation in Carthage -- The strange companion -- The visitor -- A reconstruction of the past -- The reasonable press -- Asmodeus -- The death of the comic author -- On certain manners and customs -- The statesman -- The duel -- On a battle, or "journalism," or "points of view" -- A descendant of William Shakespeare -- On the approach to western England -- The Weald -- On London and the houses in it -- On old towns -- A crossing of the hills -- The barber -- On high places -- On some little horses -- On streams and rivers -- On two manuals -- On fantastic books -- The unfortunate man -- The contented man -- The missioner -- The dream -- The silence of the battlefields -- Novissima hora -- On rest.