1862. Lawrence was first a lawyer who then turned into a writer, Lawrence first published Guy Livingstone anonymously. He is often regarded as the originator in English fiction of the beau sabreur type of hero (the muscular novel), great in sport and love and war.

"Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough'" by George A. Lawrence portrays a violent picture of Rugby School, a public school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. This book follows its titular main character as he tries to find his way as a fish out of water. Conflicts with classmates, and the stresses of needing to find where you belong are front and center in this book which has contributed to it continuing to be relevant to this day.

James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in the controversies—cultural, social, religious, political, moral, and philosophical—of his time (and duly, of our time). Collected here now are his essays on the novel and journalism, the co-operation and collusion of these two, their responsibilities and irresponsibilities. Written between 1855 and 1867, while Stephen prosecuted twin careers as barrister and journalist, these reviews bring to bear his formidable powers of mind and of phrasing, scrutinizing many deep and disconcerting novelists—Dickens and Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe and E. C. Gaskell, Flaubert and Balzac. His work also weighs journalism in the scales: from Addison's The Spectator to the Crimean war correspondence of William Howard Russell; from the scabrously detailed law-reports in The Times to the phenomenon of Letters to its Editor; from the high culture of Matthew Arnold to the mass market of 'Railroad Bookselling'.