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Editor's preface signed: G.H.P. [i.e. George Haven Putnam]v. 1. The mutability of literature, by W. Irving. The world of books, by Leigh Hunt. Imperfect sympathies, by Charles Lamb. Conversation, by Thomas De Quincey. Petition of the Thugs for toleration, by W.S. Landor. The benefits of Parliament, by W.S. Landor. Fallacies of anti-reformers, by Sydney Smith. Nil nisi bonum, by W.M. Thackeray. Compensation, by R.W. Emerson. Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold. On popular culture, by John Morley.--v. 2. On the art of living with others, by Arthur Helps. My winter garden, by Charles Kingsley. Our best society, by G.W. Curtis. On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell. On history, by Thomas Carlyle. History, by T.B. Macaulay.--v. 3. The science of history, by J.A. Froude. Race and language, by E.A. Freeman. Kin beyond sea, by W.E. Gladstone. Private judgment, by J.H. Newman. An apology for plainspeaking, by Leslie Stephen.Mode of access: Internet