ON

LITERARY AND SOCIAL TOPICS.

BY THE LATE

REV. FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON, M.A.,

How

OF BRIGHTON.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LIX.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED BY H. 0. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

THURSTON AND TORRY, PRINTERS.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

Two ADDRESSES :—

An Address delivered at the Opening of the Working

Men's Institute, on Monday, October 23, 1848..

Preface to Second Address ·

•

An Address delivered to the Members of the Working

Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on

Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the Question of the

Introduction of Skeptical Publications into their

Library....

Two LECTURES ON THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY ON

THE WORKING CLASSES:-

Delivered before the Members of the Mechanics' Insti-

tution, February, 1852.

LECTURE I

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LECTURE II

LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH:-

Delivered to the Members of the Brighton Athenæum,

February 10, 1853.

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