PROSE MASTERPIECES

FROM

MODERN ESSAYISTS


FROUDE, FREEMAN, GLADSTONE, NEWMAN, LESLIE STEPHEN

NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1891

The Knickerbocker Press
Electrotyped and Printed by
G. P. Putnam's Sons




CONTENTS. PAGE

THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY. By James Anthony Froude 3

RACE AND LANGUAGE. By Edward A. Freeman 55

KIN BEYOND SEA. By William Ewart Gladstone 151

PRIVATE JUDGMENT. By John Henry Newman 221