1908. Critical essays. The editors present a series of ten essays to trace the development of English criticism in the 19th century. Included are the following: The English Novelists by William Hazlitt; Boswell's Life of Johnson by Thomas Carlyle; Moore's Life of Lord Byron by Thomas Babington Macaulay; Swift by William Makepeace Thackeray; Literature by John Henry Newman; Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning by Walter Bagehot; Leonardo de Vinci by Walter Horatio Pater; Sir Walter Scott by Leslie Stephen; Macaulay by John Morley; Emerson by Matthew Arnold.