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The first 12 essays were published in London, by A. L. Humphreys, 1903, under title: Twelve types."These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted...[from] the Daily news and the Speaker."--Note.Charlotte Brontë.--William Morris and his school.--The optimism of Byron.--Pope and the art of satire.--Francis.--Rostand.--Charles II.--Stevenson.--Thomas Carlyle.--Tolstoy and the cult of simplicity.--Savonarola.--The position of Sir Walter Scott.--Bret Harte.--Alfred the Great.--Maeterlinck.--Ruskin.--Queen Victoria.--The German emperor.--Tennyson.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.Mode of access: Internet