PROSE MASTERPIECES

FROM

MODERN ESSAYISTS

ARTHUR HELps, Charles KINGSLEY, CURTIS, Lowell,
CARLYLE, MACAULAY

NEW YORK & LONDON

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press

1888

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 47*78

Press of

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

New York

MY WINTER GARDEN. By Charles Kingsley

OUR BEST SOCIETY. By George William Curtis.

ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS.

James Russell Lowell .

ON HISTORY. By Thomas Carlyle

HISTORY. By Thomas Babington Macaulay

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