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April, 1913.

LIST OF THE SERIES

The figures in parentheses denote the number of the book in the series

Aeschylus. The Seven Plays. Translated by Lewis Campbell. (117)

Ainsworth (W. Harrison). The Tower of London. (162)

A Kempis (Thomas). Of the Imitation of Christ. (49)

Aristophanes. Frere’s translation of the Acharnians, Knights, Birds, and Frogs. Introduction by W. W. Merry. (134)

Arnold (Matthew). Poems. Introduction by Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch. (85)

Aurelius (Marcus). The Thoughts. A new translation by John Jackson. (60)

Austen (Jane). Emma. Introduction by E. V. Lucas. (129)

Bacon. The Advancement of Learning, and the New Atlantis. Introduction by Professor Case. (93)

Barham. The Ingoldsby Legends. (9)

Blackmore (R. D.). Lorna Doone.

Borrow. The Bible in Spain. (75)

BrontË Sisters.

Brown (Dr. John). Horae Subsecivae. Introduction by Austin Dobson. (118)

Browning (Elizabeth Barrett). Poems: A Selection. (176)

Browning (Robert). Poems and Plays, 1833-1842. (58)

Buckle. The History of Civilization in England. 3 vols. (41, 48, 53)

Bunyan. The Pilgrim’s Progress. (12)

Burke. Works. 6 vols.

Burns. Poems. (34)

Butler. The Analogy of Religion. Edited, with Notes, by W. E. Gladstone. (136)

Byron. Poems: A Selection. (180)

[In preparation

Carlyle. On Heroes and Hero-Worship. (62)

Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by C. Jervas. Introduction and Notes by J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly. 2 vols. With a frontispiece. (130, 131)

Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. (76)

Chaucer. The Works of. From the text of Professor Skeat. 3 vols. Vol. I (42); Vol. II (56); Vol. III, containing the whole of the Canterbury Tales (76)

Cobbold. Margaret Catchpole. Introduction by Clement Shorter. (119)

Coleridge. Poems. Introduction by Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch. (99)

Cooper (T. Fenimore). The Last of the Mohicans. (163)

Cowper. Letters. Selected, with Introduction, by E. V. Lucas. (138)

Darwin. The Origin of Species. With a Note by Grant Allen. (11)

Defoe. Captain Singleton. Introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton. (82)

De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. (23)

Dickens. Great Expectations. With 6 Illustrations by Warwick Goble. (128)

Dufferin (Lord). Letters from High Latitudes. Illustrated. With Introduction by R. W. Macan. (158)

Eliot (George). Adam Bede. (63)

Emerson. English Traits, and Representative Men. (30)

English Essays. Chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (32)

English Essays, 1600-1900 (Book of). Chosen by S. V. Makower and B. H. Blackwell. (172)

English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin. Chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (45)

English Songs and Ballads. Compiled by T. W. H. Crosland. (13)

Fielding. Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. 2 Illustrations. (142)

Galt (John). The Entail. Introduction by John Ayscough. (177)

Gaskell (Mrs.). Introductions by Clement Shorter.

Gibbon. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With Maps. 7 vols. (35, 44, 51, 55, 64, 69, 74)

Goethe. Faust, Part I (with Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus). Translated by John Anster. Introduction by A. W. Ward. (135)

Goldsmith. Poems. Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. (123)

Grant (James). The Captain of the Guard. (159)

Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter. (26)

Hazlitt. Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. (124)

Herbert (George). Poems. Introduction by Arthur Waugh. (109)

Herrick. Poems. (16)

Holmes (Oliver Wendell). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. (61)

Homer. Iliad. Translated by Pope. (18)

Hood. Poems. Introduction by Walter Jerrold. (87)

Horne (R. Hengist). A New Spirit of the Age. Introduction by Walter Jerrold. (127)

Hume. Essays. (33)

Hunt (Leigh). Essays and Sketches. Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. (115)

Irving (Washington). The Conquest of Granada. (150)

Jerrold (Douglas). Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures, Mr. Caudle’s Breakfast Talk, and other Stories and Essays. Introduction by Walter Jerrold, and 90 Illustrations by Keene, Leech, and Doyle. (122)

Johnson. Lives of the English Poets. Introduction by Arthur Waugh. 2 vols. (83, 84)

Keats. Poems. (7)

Keble. The Christian Year. (181)

[In preparation

Lamb. Essays of Elia, and The Last Essays of Elia. (2)

Lesage. Gil Blas. Translated by T. Smollett, with Introduction and Notes by J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly. 2 vols. (151, 152)

Longfellow. Evangeline, The Golden Legend, &c. (39)

Lytton. Harold. With 6 Illustrations by Charles Burton. (165)

Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome; Ivry; The Armada. (27)

Machiavelli. The Prince. Translated by Luigi Ricci. (43)

Marcus Aurelius. See Aurelius.

Marlowe. Dr. Faustus (with Goethe’s Faust, Part I). Introduction by A. W. Ward. See Goethe.

Marryat. Mr. Midshipman Easy. (160)

Mill (John Stuart). On Liberty, Representative Government, and the Subjection of Women. With an Introduction by Mrs. Fawcett. (170)

Milton. The English Poems. (182)

[In preparation

Montaigne. Essays. Translated by J. Florio. 3 vols. (65, 70, 77)

Morris (W.). The Defence of Guinevere, The Life and Death of Jason, and other Poems. (183)

[In preparation

Motley. Rise of the Dutch Republic. Introduction by Clement Shorter. 3 vols. (96, 97, 98)

Palgrave. The Golden Treasury. With additional Poems, including FitzGerald’s translation of Omar KhayyÁm. (133)

Peacock (W.). English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin. (45) Selected English Essays. (32)

Poe (Edgar Allan). Tales of Mystery and Imagination. (21)

Porter (Jane). The Scottish Chiefs. (161)

Reid (Mayne). The Rifle Rangers. With 6 Illustrations by J. E. Sutcliffe. (166)

Reynolds (Sir Joshua). The Discourses, and the Letters to ‘The Idler.’ Introduction by Austin Dobson. (149)

Rossetti (Christina). Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and other Poems. (184)

[In preparation

Rossetti (D. G.). Poems and Translations, 1850-1870. (185)

[In preparation

Ruskin. (Ruskin House Editions, by arrangement with George Allen and Sons.)

Scott. Ivanhoe. (29)

Shakespeare. Plays and Poems. With a Preface by A. C. Swinburne and general Introductions to the several plays and poems by Edward Dowden, and a Note by T. Watts-Dunton on the special typographical features of this Edition. 9 vols.

Shelley. Poems. A Selection. (187)

[In preparation

Sheridan. Plays. Introduction by Joseph Knight. (79)

Smith (Adam). The Wealth of Nations. 2 vols. (54, 59)

Smollett. Travels through France and Italy. Introduction by Thomas Seccombe. (90)

Sophocles. The Seven Plays. Translated by the late Lewis Campbell. (116)

Southey (Robert). Letters. Selected, with an Introduction and Notes, by Maurice H. FitzGerald. (169)

Sterne. Tristram Shandy. (40)

Swift. Gulliver’s Travels. (20)

Tennyson (Lord). Poems. (3)

Thackeray. Book of Snobs, Sketches and Travels in London, &c. (50)

Henry Esmond. (28)

Pendennis. Introduction by Edmund Gosse. 2 vols. (91, 92)