Short Studies on Great Subjects. New Edition, In Three Volumes. (4 volumes) Signed Binding by Morrell.

Short Studies on Great Subjects. New Edition, In Three Volumes. (4 volumes) Signed Binding by Morrell. 1879. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 12mo.(4.5" x 6.5") Four volumes complete. Quarter burgundy polished leather with corners over light red cloth. Spine with gilt lettering and decoration, raised bands. Signed Binding by Morrell. A wide-ranging collection of essays by Victorian historian James Anthony Froude examining European and British history, the Reformation, Christianity and religious controversy, classical literature, politics, empire, and notable historical figures from Thomas Becket to Julius Caesar. Volume I: Essays on history, religion, and literature, including Erasmus and Luther, the Reformation in Scotland, Catholicism, biblical criticism, the Book of Job, Spinoza, the dissolution of the monasteries, Homer, saints’ lives, and several literary fables and allegories. Volume II: Concentrates more heavily on religion, politics, and the British Empire, with essays on Calvinism, Protestantism, Cardinal Newman, England and her colonies, Ireland, education, the Eastern Question, and the application of scientific method to history. Volume III: A varied group of historical and political studies covering an English abbey, the revival of Roman Catholicism, maritime subjects, late Republican Rome, Lucian, Julius Caesar, the landed gentry, party politics, and observations from South Africa. Volume IV: Essays on Thomas Becket, the Oxford Catholic revival, early Christianity and classical religious controversy, the House of Russell, and other historical and biographical subjects.