A happy half-century, and other essays /

Partly reprinted from various periodicals.

Deals mainly with English intellectual life during "the last twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth."

--A happy half-century.--The perils of immortality.--When Lalla Rookh was young.--The correspondent.--The novelist.--On the slopes of Parnassus.--The literary lady.--The child.--The educator.--The pietist.--The accursed annual.--Our accomplished great-grandmother.--The album amicorum.

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