STUDIES IN EARLY VICTORIAN LITERATURE

by

FREDERIC HARRISON







Edward Arnold
London ------ New York
37 Bedford Street ------ 70 Fifth Avenue
1895
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NOTE

The following essays appeared in the _Forum_ of New York, and
simultaneously in London, during the years 1894-95. They have been
carefully revised and partly re-written, after due consideration of
various suggestions and criticisms both in England and in America. The
aim of the writer was to attempt a mature estimate of the permanent
influence and artistic achievement of some of the principal prose