From Æschylus to Victor Hugo.--The character of Goethe.--A note on Lucretius.--Free thought in America.--A note on Dante Rossetti.--Thomas Love Peacock; a personal reminiscence.--Sydney Dobell, and the "Spasmodic school;" a souvenir.--The Irish "national" poet.--Heine in a court suit.--A talk with George Eliot.--The literature of spiritualism; "post mortem" fiction.--The modern stage.--Flotsam and jetsam.--From Pope to Tennyson.--A last look around