The new times, and the poets and essayists as prophets of a new era.--John Ruskin's "Seven lamps of architecture" as interpreters of the seven laws of life ... --George Eliot's Tito, in "Romola" ... --Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter" and the retributive workings of conscience ... --Victor Hugo's "Les miserables."--Tennyson's "Idylls of the king."--The tragedy of the ten-talent men; a study of Browning's "Saul."--The memoirs of Henry Drummond, and the dawn of an era of friendship between science and religion.--The opportunities of leisure and wealth; an outlook upon the life of Lord Shaftesbury.--The biography of Frances Willard, and the heroes of social reform.--Blaikie's life of David Livingstone; a study of nineteenth-century heroism.--The Christian scholar in politics; a study of the life of William Ewart Gladstone

Subjects: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885; Browning, Robert, 1812-1889; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885; Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livingstone, David, 1813-1873; Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Character