THE GREAT ENGLISH

ESSAYISTS

WITH INTRODUCTORY

ESSAYS AND NOTES

BY

WILLIAM J. DAWSON

AND

CONINGSBY W. DAWSON

NAMRAZIA
ΕΠΙΣΧΟΝΤΕΣ

Α ΑΔΩΣΟΥΣΙΝ

ΛΗΛΟΙΣ

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

MCMIX

Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved.

Published November, 1909.

CHAP.

Contents

THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY .

I. THE CLASSIC ESSAY.

II. THE LETTER ESSAY

III. THE SHORT-STORY ESSAY .

IV. THE BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY