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Late Nineteenth-Century Prose
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Walt Whitman, poet and democrat. Edinburgh 1884.
The religion of Shakspere: two discourses. [1887.]
Christ and Krishna. 1889, 1900 (rev and enlarged as Christianity and
mythology). Rptd from Nat Reformer.
Essays towards a critical method. 1889.
Essays in history and politics. 1891.
Modern humanists. 1891. Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold, Ruskin,
Spencer.
The fallacy of saving. 1892.
The eight hours question. 1893.
Buckle and his critics: a study in sociology. 1895.
The dynamics of religion: an essay in English culture history. 1897,
1926 (rev). Originally pbd under pseud of M. W. Wiseman.
Montaigne and Shakespeare. 1897, 1909 (adds 2 essays on the
Originality and Learning of Shakespeare).
New essays towards a critical method. 1897.
The Saxon and the Celt: a study in sociology. 1897.
Essays and discourses. 1898.
Miscellanies. 1898.
Patriotism and empire. 1899.
A short history of freethought, ancient and modern. 1899, 2 vols
1906 (rewritten and greatly enlarged), 1915 (rev and enlarged).
Christianity and mythology. 1900, 1910 (rev and enlarged); tr Ger
1910.
An introduction to English politics. 1900, 1912 (rev and enlarged as
The evolution of states: an introduction to English politics).
Studies in religious fallacy. 1900.
Wrecking the empire. 1901.
Letters on reasoning. 1902, 1905 (rev and enlarged), [1935]
(abridged).
A short history of Christianity. 1902, 1913 (rev and enlarged), 1931
(rev and condensed).
Criticisms. 2 vols 1902–3.
Browning and Tennyson as teachers: two studies. 1903.
Essays in ethics. 1903.
Pagan christs: studies in comparative hierology. 1903, 1911 (rev and
expanded).
Studies in practical politics. 1903.
Courses of study. 1904, 1908 (rev and enlarged), 1932 (enlarged).
Essays in sociology. 2 vols 1904.
What to read: suggestions for the better utilisation of public
libraries. 1904.
Did Shakespeare write ‘Titus Andronicus’? a study in Elizabethan
literature. 1905, 1924 (rev and expanded as Introduction to the
study of the Shakespeare canon).
Rudyard Kipling: a criticism. Madras [1905].
Pioneer humanists. 1907. Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Spinoza,
Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Gibbon, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Trade and tariffs. 1908.
The evolution of states: an introduction to English politics. 1912.
The meaning of Liberalism. 1912, 1925 (rev and enlarged).
Rationalism. 1912, 1945 (abridged).
The Baconian heresy: a confutation. 1913.
Elizabethan literature. 1914.
The future of militarism, by ‘Roland’ [pseud]. 1916.
The Germans. 1916.
The historical Jesus: a survey of positions. 1916.
The Jesus problem: a re-statement of the myth theory. 1917.
Shakespeare and Chapman: a thesis of Chapman’s authorship of A
lover’s complaint, and his origination of Timon of Athens, with
indications of future problems. 1917.
The economics of progress. 1918.
The problem of The merry wives of Windsor. [1918.]
Bolingbroke and Walpole. 1919.
Free trade. 1919.
The problem of Hamlet. 1919.
Charles Bradlaugh. 1920.
A short history of morals. 1920.
Croce as Shakespearean critic. 1922.
Voltaire. 1922.
The Shakespeare canon. 5 vols 1922–32.
Explorations. 1923.
Hamlet once more. 1923.
Ernest Renan. 1924.
Gibbon. 1925.
Mr Shaw and ‘the Maid’. [1925.]
Spoken essays. 1925.
The problems of the Shakespeare sonnets. 1926.
Jesus and Judas: a textual and historical investigation. 1927.
Modern humanists reconsidered. 1927.
The political economy of free trade. 1928.
A history of free thought in the nineteenth century. 1929, 2 vols 1936
(rev and enlarged).
The genuine in Shakespeare: a conspectus. 1930.
Electoral justice: a survey of the theory and practice of electoral representation.
[1931.]
Fiscal fraud and folly. 1931.
Literary detection: a symposium on Macbeth. 1931.
Marlow: a conspectus. 1931.
The state of Shakespeare study: a critical conspectus. 1931.
Robertson also pbd many rationalist, sociological and political tracts and lectures.
Contributions to periodicals and collaborative works
Robertson wrote many hundreds of articles for the periodical press on a wide
variety of subjects. His main output may be found in periodicals of an outspokenly
rationalist signature, such as the Nat Reformer and the Literary
Guide, but he also contributed to periodicals like the Criterion and the
Yellow Book. For his contributions to Fortnightly Rev and Westminster
Rev see Wellesley 5 1989. Robertson was editor of the Nat Reformer from
1891 to 1893, and of the Free Rev from 1893 to 1897. He contributed to many
collaborative works, such as H. B. Bonner (ed), Essays towards peace (1913),
and Essays in Liberalism (1922).
Editions and introductions
Robertson edited edns of Bacon’s Philosophical works, Buckle’s
Introduction to the history of civilization, Shaftesbury’s
Characteristics of men, manners, opinions, times etc. He also contributed
introductions to works such as E. J. Trechmann’s translation of
Montaigne’s Essays.
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Obits: Morning Post 7 Jan 1933; Manchester Guardian 7 Jan 1933.
Obituaries and tributes by J. P. Gilmour, E. Phillpotts, J. A. Hobson et
al. Literary Guide Feb and Mar 1933.
Gilmour, J. P. et al. Appreciations of J. M. Robertson. In A history of
Freethought, ed J. M. Robertson, 4 vols 1936.
Kaczkowski, C. J. John Mackinnon Robertson: freethinker and
radical. Unpbd diss, St Louis Univ 1964.
Page, M. Britain’s unknown genius: an introduction to the life-work
of John Mackinnon Robertson. 1984.
J. M. Robertson (1856–1933), liberal, rationalist, & scholar. Ed G. A.
Wells 1987.
Dekkers, O. J. M. Robertson: Rationalist and literary critic.
Aldershot 1998. [od]
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1845–1933
See LR and NRA for mss and letters. Notable collections in BL, London Univ
Lib, Nat Lib of Scotland, Oxford Univ: Merton College Lib, Queens Univ of
Belfast.