Varied Types

These essays, with some alterations & additions, are reprinted from the Daily News & the Speaker. The 1st 12 were published in London, by A.L. Humphreys, 1903, as Twelve Types.
Charlie Brontë
William Morris & his school
The optimism of Byron
Pope & the art of satire
Francis
Rostand
Charles II
Stevenson
Thomas Carlyle
Tolstoy & the cult of simpliccity
The position of Sir Walter Scott
Bret Harte
Alfred the great
Maeterlinck
Ruskin
Queen Victoria
The German emperor
Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning