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THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

822174

ASTOR LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
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19'8

Copyright, 1895,

By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY.

MEM AOBK

PREFACE.

THIS little book is an abridgment of lectures given at Wellesley College during a course of instruction on modern English prose-writers. It may seem strange that thought so avowedly and entirely religious should find place in the study of literature; but the century is to blame rather than the lecturer. It was impossible to teach modern English prose ignoring such men as John Stuart Mill, Carlyle, Cardinal Newman, Herbert Spencer, Frederic Harrison, Frederic Denison Maurice, and Matthew Arnold; it was equally impossible to gain intelligent understanding of the work of these men and their relation to their age without some treatment of their intellec

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