This engaging collection of twelve essays by the incomparable Walter Bagehot was affectionately compiled by his lifelong friend Richard Holt Hutton. Included are “Letters on the Coup d’Etat of 1851, ” “Bad Lawyers or Good?, ” ‘The Metasphysical Basis of Toleration, ‘ ‘On the Emotion of Conviction, ‘ and “The Ignorance of Man, ” among others.
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Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was an English businessman and author. His writings focused on literature, politics, and economics. He founded the National Review in 1855, and went on to become the editor-in-chief of The Economist. Among his published books is The English Constitution (1867), which perceptively compared the British government to that of America.
Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897) was an English writer and theologian. A lifelong friend of Walter Bagehot, they were joint editors of the National Review for ten years. Hutton also was coeditor of The Spectator. Among his works is Criticisms on Contemporary Thought & Thinkers (1894).
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