1909. Jonathan Swift by William Thackeray. The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman. The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold; Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin. John Milton by Walter Bagehot. Science and Culture by Thomas Henry Huxley. Race and Language by Edward Freeman. Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson. On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing. The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe. Walking by Henry David Thoreau. Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by James Russell Lowell.