Shells from the Sands of Time

SHELLS FROM THE SANDS
OF TIME.

BY

THE DOWAGER LADY LYTTON.

Contents

  • On Bad Manners
  • Samuel Pepys and Francis Bacon, Lord Varulam and Viscount St. Albans
  • Of Masques and Triumphs
  • Forgive and Forget
  • Pity
  • On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies
  • A Curiosity of Literature not mentioned by Isaac D'Israeli
  • On the Comparativeness of Greatness
  • Upon the Great Difference of the Same Circumtances in our own Case and that of others, which always has existed, and it is to be feared always will exist
  • An Essay upon Essays
  • An Old Man's Saying
  • Servants
  • Happy Jack
  • Macaulay
  • Proposed Plan for a Supplementary College to the Universities, for the purpose of Saving Time and Trouble with respect to Undergraduates likely to be Plucked; followed by Two Ghost Stories

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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