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Title: Hours in a Library
New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

Author: Leslie Stephen

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Language: English

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HOURS IN A LIBRARY

VOL. II.

HOURS IN A LIBRARY

BY

LESLIE STEPHEN

_NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS_

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. II.

LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1892

[_All rights reserved_]

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME

PAGE

DR. JOHNSON'S WRITINGS 1

CRABBE 33

WILLIAM HAZLITT 67

DISRAELI'S NOVELS 106

MASSINGER 141

FIELDING'S NOVELS 177

COWPER AND ROUSSEAU 208

THE FIRST EDINBURGH REVIEWERS 241

WORDSWORTH'S ETHICS 270

LANDOR'S IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS 308

MACAULAY 343

HOURS IN A LIBRARY

_DR. JOHNSON'S WRITINGS_

A book appeared not long ago of which it was the professed object to
give to t