Produced by Alfred J. Drake. HTML version by Al Haines. ESSAYS FROM 'THE GUARDIAN' By WALTER HORATIO PATER NOTES BY THE E-TEXT EDITOR: Reliability: Although I have done my best to ensure that the text you read is error-free in comparison with an exact reprint of the standard edition--Macmillan's 1910 Library Edition--please exercise scholarly caution in using it. It is not intended as a substitute for the printed original but rather as a searchable supplement. My e-texts may prove convenient substitutes for hard-to-get works in a course where both instructor and students accept the possibility of some imperfections in the text, but if you are writing a scholarly article, dissertation, or book, you should use the standard hard-copy editions of any works you cite. Pagination and Paragraphing: To avoid an unwieldy electronic copy, I have transferred original pagination to brackets. A bracketed numeral such as [22] indicates that the material immediately following the number marks the beginning of the relevant page. I have preserved paragraph structure except for first-line indentation. Hyphenation: I have not preserved original hyphenation since an e-text does not require line-end or page-end hyphenation. Greek typeface: For this full-text edition, I have transliterated Pater's Greek quotations. If there is a need for the original Greek, it can be viewed at my site, http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts, a Victorianist archive that contains the complete works of Walter Pater and many other nineteenth-century texts, mostly in first editions. CONTENTS 1. English Literature: 1-16 2. Amiel's "Journal Intime": 17-37 3. Browning: 39-51 4. "Robert Elsmere": 53-70 5. Their Majesties' Servants: 71-88 6. Wordsworth: 89-104 7. Mr. Gosse's Poems: 105-118 8. Ferdinand Fabre: 119-134 9. The "Contes" of M. Augustin Filon: 135-149 ESSAYS FROM 'THE GUARDIAN' WALTER HORATIO PATER E-text Editor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Electronic Version 1.0 / Date 10-12-01 PATER'S NOTE: The nine papers contained in the following volume originally appeared anonymously in The Guardian newspaper. E-TEXT EDITOR'S NOTE: I have not preserved the title pages of this volume, but have instead moved dates to each essay's end and included any necessary title-page material in the heading area of the first substantive page. I. ENGLISH LITERATURE FOUR BOOKS FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE