Gathered from Victorian reviews of the 1850s and 1860s, these essays range from Oxford and Matthew Arnold’s poems to the Book of Job, the lives of the saints, Spinoza and the beast epic of Reynard the Fox. Historical pieces on the dissolution of the monasteries and England’s forgotten seafaring worthies sit beside a plea for free discussion of theology.
Froude at his most wide-ranging and readable, in a collection with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Download the free EPUB.