Selected Essays

Transcribed by R.N. Robinson from the Traveller’s Library Edition (Jonathan Cape 1927) this edition of Butler's Selected Essays contains a sketch of his life by Henry Festing Jones. Butler (1835-1902) contributed numerous articles and letters to various periodicals, some of which are reprinted here. This volume contains the following essays: The Humour of Homer - a lecture delivered at the Working Men’s College, Great Ormond Street, 30th January 1892.Quis Desiderio...? - published in the Univers