Several essays / edited by G. F. J. Cumberlege

Includes notes

INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS The art of the essayists -- A. C. Benson DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS Toby -- Dr. Brown Marie Antoinette -- Thomas Carlyle Pont-Sur-Sambre -- Robert Louis Stevenson The Cat -- Katharine M. Wilson Rumm -- T. E. Lawrence The lord of life -- E. V. Lucas REFLECTIVE ESSAYS Dream Children -- Charles Lamb On love -- Percy Bysshe Shelley On the fear of death -- William Hazlitt Knowledge its own end -- Cardinal Newman The lonely author -- J. C. Squire Seaside -- Robert Lynd ESSAYS IN CRITICISM Literature -- Thomas De Quincey On the modern element in literature -- Mathew Arnold Personal style -- J. A. Symonds What is art -- A. Clutton-Brock Shelley -- Sir Walter Raleigh On Carlyle's 'Past and present' -- G. K. Chesterton Mr. Abercrombie's poetics -- A review English prose -- A review ESSAYS ON TRAVEL Cairo to Suez -- A. W. Kinglake The bedouins -- C. M. Doughty Chitor -- Count Keyserling The great river Euphrates -- D. G. Hogarth Free to the uttermost -- C. E. Montague Dalai Lama -- Edmund Candler