The...memoir of Mary, queen of Scots, and the ...monographs on Congreve, Keats and Landor...have already appeared in the Encyclopaedia britannica. Most of the other articles...were first published in the Nineteenth century or the Fortnightly review."
Short notes on English poetry.--A century of English poetry.--Congreve.--Collins.--Wordsworth and Byron.--Charles Lamb and George Wither.--Landor.--Keats.--Tennyson and Musset.--Emily Brontë.--Charles Reade.--Auguste Vacquerie.--Mary, queen of Scots.--Appendix: A relic of Dryden.--Sir Henry Taylor on Shelley.--Note on the character of Mary, queen of Scots