The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen. (2 vols.)

American Scholar | September 22, 1997| | Copyright

Who was Bishop Colenso? And what were the Thirty-nine Articles? What was Essays and Reviews? Who was Governor Eyre and what happened in Jamaica that inspired committees in London to protest his harsh verdicts? Any Victorian specialist can enlighten you about these matters, and can also explain disestablishment of the Irish Church and political maneuvering before the Second Reform Bill. Burning issues of the past do not continue burning with the same intensity, as historians and biographers discover. In writing about Fitzjames Stephen, his brother, Leslie Stephen, founder of the ...

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