ESSAYS FROM 'THE GUARDIAN'

WALTER HORATIO PATER




PATER'S NOTE: The nine papers contained in the following volume
originally appeared anonymously in The Guardian newspaper.






I. ENGLISH LITERATURE




FOUR BOOKS FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE


[3] THE making of an anthology of English prose is what must have
occurred to many of its students, by way of pleasure to themselves,
or of profit to other persons. Such an anthology, the compass and
variety of our prose literature being considered, might well follow
exclusively some special line of interest in it; exhibiting, for