Excerpt from The Collected Essays and Papers of George Saintsbury, Vol. 1: 1875 1920 The collection, as I finally settled it, divided itself under several heads. The first and largest division consisted of Essays on English Literature, most of them concerning the period 1780 - 1 860 and already published as such, but supplemented here by a few on other periods. Then there was the little group of Corrected Ini pressions which went, I think, through at least two editions when it was first published: and which, speaking as a fool, I think may have some interest as a sort of point de repere. Its subjects are the greatest authors, in prose and verse, of the Victorian period, and it was written and published just at the time when, though Queen Victoria herself occupied the throne for the best part of a decade longer, the revolt of the 'nineties had already begun and Victorianism itself was already beginning to seem fogeyish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.