Sir Leslie Stephen was a distinguished literary and social critic. The third of four wide-ranging volumes on books, writers, and history, this 1907 edition includes the essays "Charlotte Brontë," "Charles Kingsley," "Godwin and Shelley," "Macaulay," "Landor's Imaginary Conversations," "The First Edinburgh Reviewers," "Cowper and Rousseau," "Wordsworth's Ethics," and "Fielding's Novels."