Literary Studies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This engaging collection of twelve essays by the incomparable Walter Bagehot was affectionately compiled by his lifelong friend Richard Holt Hutton. Included are “Letters on the Coup d’Etat of 1851,” “Bad Lawyers or Good?,” "The Metasphysical Basis of Toleration," "On the Emotion of Conviction," and “The Ignorance of Man,” among others.