"Father and Son" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

"Gossip in a Library" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

"Henrik Ibsen" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

"Hypolympia" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

"Raleigh" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

"Some Diversions of a Man of Letters" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

"Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France" from Edmund Gosse. English poet, author and critic (1849-1928).

This Shakespeare study was produced at the moment when controversy with regard to the internal evidence of composition in the writings attributed to Shakespeare was raging high, and the amusing appendices were added at the last moment that they might infuriate the pedants of the New Shakespeare Society. They amply fulfilled that amiable purpose.

Walter Raleigh was born, so Camden and an anonymous astrologer combine to assure us, in 1552. The place was Hayes Barton, a farmstead in the parish of East Budleigh, in Devonshire, then belonging to his father; it passed out of the family, and in 1584 Sir Walter attempted to buy it back. 'For the natural disposition I have to the place, being born in that house, I had rather seat myself there than anywhere else, ' he wrote to a Mr. Richard Duke, the then possessor, who refused to sell it. Genealogists, from himself downwards, have found a rich treasure in Raleigh's family tree, which winds...