Literary studies: Lyric and dramatic elements in literature and art. Dualism in national life. Did Shakespeare write Bacon's work? The evolution of a great poem: Gray's elegy.--Religious and philosophical: Affinities of Buddhism and Christianity. Why I am not a free-religionist. Have animals souls? Apropos of Tyndall. Law and design in nature.--Historical and biographical: The two Carlyles, or Carlyle past and present. Buckle and his theory of averages. Voltaire. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harriet Martineau. The rise and fall of the slave power in America.