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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Suggested Further Reading

A Note on the Text

ESSAYS

Prospectus of the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review

Woman in France: Madame de Sablé

Evangelical Teaching: Dr Cumming

German Wit: Heinrich Heine

The Natural History of German Life

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

Worldliness and Other-Worldliness: The Poet Young

The Ilfracombe Journal

Notes on Form in Art

THE GEORGE ELIOTFREDERIC HARRISON CORRESPONDENCE

Harrison to Eliot, 19 July 1866

Eliot to Harrison, 4 August 1866

Eliot to Harrison, 15 August 1866

Harrison to Eliot, 25 May 1868

Harrison to Eliot, 11 November 1868

Eliot to Harrison, 15 January 1870

REVIEWS

Brothers in Opinion: Edgar Quinet and Jules Michelet

J. A. Froude’s The Nemesis of Faith

R. W. Mackay’s The Progress of the Intellect

W. R. Greg’s The Creed of Christendom

Thomas Carlyle’s Life of John Sterling

Lord Brougham’s Literature

The Morality of Wilhelm Meister

Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!

Geraldine Jewsbury’s Constance Herbert

Saint-Marc Girardin’s Love in the Drama

Ashford Owen’s A Lost Love and C. W. S. Brooks’s Aspen Court

Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft

Translations and Translators

Thomas Carlyle

Robert Browning’s Men and Women

Peter von Bohlen’s Introduction to the Book of Genesis

The Antigone and Its Moral

John Ruskin’s Modern Painters, Vol. III

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred, Charles Reade’s It is Never Too Late to Mend and Frederika Bremer’s Hertha

William Lecky’s The Influence of Rationalism

POEMS

From Armgart

From The Spanish Gypsy

Brother and Sister Sonnets

FROM IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH

Debasing the Moral Currency

TRANSLATIONS

David Friedrich Strauss’s The Life of Jesus

From ‘Introduction: Development of the Mythical Point of View in Relation to the Gospel Histories’

From ‘Concluding Dissertation: The Dogmatic Import of the Life of Jesus’

Ludwig Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity

The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God

From ‘The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature in God’

From ‘The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism’

Notes