Author:James Hain Friswell

Works

 * Essays and Studies
 * The Russian Empire: Its History and Present Condition of Its People (1854)
 * Houses with the Fronts Off (1854)
 * Twelve Inside and One Out (1854)
 * Footsteps to Fame: A Book to Open Other Books (1861)
 * The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character (1864)
 * About in the World: Essays (1864)
 * Life Portraits of William Shakespeare: A History of the Various Representations of the Poet, with an Examination into Their Authenticity (1864)
 * Familiar Words: An Index Verborum, or a Quotation Handbook, with Parallel Passages, of Phrases Which Have Become Imbedded in Our English Tongue (1865)
 * Varia: Readings from Rare Books (1866)
 * The Silent Hour: Essays for Sunday Reading (1868)
 * The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character Second Series (1868)
 * Essays on English Writers (1869)
 * Modern Men of Letters Honestly Criticised (1870)
 * A Man's Thoughts (1872)
 * The Better Self: Essays from Home Life (1875)
 * A Man's Thoughts (1872)
 * The Better Self: Essays from Home Life (1875)


 * Novels and Stories
 * Diamonds and Spades: A Story of Two Lives (1858)
 * Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies (1858)
 * Out and About: A Boy's Adventures, Written for Adventurous Boys (1860)
 * Sham! A Novel Written in Earnest (1861)
 * The Young Couple and Miscellanies (1862)
 * A Daughter of Eve (1863)
 * A Splendid Fortune: A Novel (1865)
 * "Christmas Eve in Custody," printed in Mixed Sweets from Routledge's Annual (1867)
 * Other People's Windows (1868)
 * One of Two: A Novel (1871)
 * Our Square Circle: A Novel (1880), completed by his daughter, L. H. Friswell


 * Poetry
 * Blackwell's Comic Zadkiel (1855)
 * Songs of the War, by the Best Writers. Edited, with Original Songs, by James Hain Friswell (1855)
 * Francis Spira, and Other Poems (1865)
 * Marcus Ward's Picture Fables, from Æsop, Told Anew in Verse, by J. Hain Friswell (1874), in four books:
 * The Wolf and the Lamb, and Other Fables
 * The Hare and Tortoise, and Other Fables
 * The Jackdaw and Peacock, and Other Fables
 * The Dog in the Manger, and Other Fables

Editions and Translations

 * Essays by Montaigne (1866), edited and compared
 * The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1867), by Sir Philip Sidney, with notes and introductory essay
 * Like unto Christ, (1868), a translation of the De Imitatione Christi of Thomas à Kempis
 * Essays in Mosaic, (1870), by Thomas Ballantyne, with a preface
 * Reflections, (1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, with introduction, notes, and an account of the author and his times, with John William Willis-Bund
 * Pleasure: A Holiday Book of Prose and Verse (1871)
 * Ninety Three, (1874), by Victor Hugo, translated