Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction by G. F. J. Cumberlege.--The ruined cottage and The exc ursion, by H. Darbishire.--Browning: a conversation, by F. Page.--'Say not the struggle nought availeth,' by A. L. P. Norrington.--The poetry of R. L. Stevenson, by H. W. Garrod.--A poet in Walton Street, by S. No well-Smith.--Personal names in Trollope's political novels, by R. W. Ch apman.--The diffusion of ideas, by R. C. K. Ensor.--The church in the n ineteenth century, by R. H. Malden.--A minim's rest, by R. V. Williams. --Sporting writers of the nineteenth century, by B. Darwin.--The camel' s back; or, The last tribulation of a Victorian publisher, by M. Sadlei r.--The perfect author, by S. C. Roberts.