Spenser :: ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

These Short Books are addressed to the general public with a view both to stirring and satisfying an interest in literature and its great topics in the minds of those who have to run as they read. An immense class is growing up, and must every year increase, whose education will have made them alive to the importance of the masters of our literature, and capable of intelligent curiosity as to their performances. The Series is intended to give the means of nourishing this curiosity, to an extent that shall be copious enough to be profitable for knowledge and life, and yet be brief enough to serve those whose leisure is scanty.

The following are arranged for:—

SPENSER	The Dean of St. Paul's.	[Ready.
HUME	Professor Huxley.	[Ready.
BUNYAN	James Anthony Froude.
JOHNSON	Leslie Stephen.	[Ready.
GOLDSMITH	William Black.	[Ready.
MILTON	Mark Pattison.
COWPER	Goldwin Smith.
SWIFT	John Morley.
BURNS	Principal Shairp.	[Ready.
SCOTT	Richard H. Hutton.	[Ready.
SHELLEY	J. A. Symonds.	[Ready.
GIBBON	J. C. Morison.	[Ready.
BYRON	Professor Nichol.
DEFOE	W. Minto.	[Ready.
BURKE	John Morley.	[In the Press.
HAWTHORNE	Henry James.
CHAUCER	A. W. Ward.
THACKERAY	Anthony Trollope.	[Ready.
ADAM SMITH	Leonard H. Courtney, M.P.
BENTLEY	Professor R. C. Jebb.
LANDOR	Professor Sidney Calvin.
POPE	Leslie Stephen.
WORDSWORTH	F. W. H. Myers.
SOUTHEY	Prof. E. Dowden.

[OTHERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED.]

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"The new series opens well with Mr. Leslie Stephen's sketch of Dr. Johnson. It could hardly have been done better; and it will convey to the readers for whom it is intended a juster estimate of Johnson than either of the two essays of Lord Macaulay."—Pall Mall Gazette.

"We have come across few writers who have had a clearer insight into Johnson's character, or who have brought to the study of it a better knowledge of the time in which Johnson lived and the men whom he knew."—Saturday Review.

"We could not wish for a more suggestive introduction to Scott and his poems and novels."—Examiner.

"The tone of the volume is excellent throughout."—AthenÆum Review of "Scott."

"As a clear, thoughtful, and attractive record of the life and works of the greatest among the world's historians, it deserves the highest praise."—Examiner Review of "Gibbon."

"The lovers of this great poet (Shelley) are to be congratulated at having at their command so fresh, clear, and intelligent a presentment of the subject written by a man of adequate and wide culture."—AthenÆum.

"It may fairly be said that no one now living could have expounded Hume with more sympathy or with equal perspicuity."—AthenÆum.

"Of the charm of Mr. Black's style we have often spoken. In this little volume he shows that he is as capable of penetrating and expounding the character of an historical person of a past time as he is of giving life to persons of the present time invented by himself."—Saturday Review.

"Mr. Minto's book is careful and accurate in all that it states, and fruitful in all that it suggests. It will repay reading more than once."—AthenÆum.

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