Series title on spine: Harvard classics : the five foot shelf of books.
Contents
Jonathan Swift / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The idea of a university / John Henry Newman -- The study of poetry / Matthew Arnold --Sesame and lilies / John Ruskin -- John Milton / Walter Bagehot --Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Race and language / Edward Augustus Freeman -- Truth of intercourse ; Samuel Pepys / Robert Louis Stevenson -- On the elevation of the laboring classes / William Ellery Channing -- The poetic principle / Edgar Allan Poe -- Walking / by Henry David Thoreau -- Abraham Lincoln ; Democracy / James Russell Lowell.