In this charming collection of essays and reflections, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton offers readers a delightful glimpse into his personal and intellectual life. Covering a wide range of topics, from art and literature to politics and philosophy, these monographs are full of insight and wit, and reveal Houghton as a true Renaissance man of the 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and...