Sir John Alexander Hammerton

Table of Contents

Miscellaneous

JOSEPH ADDISON The Spectator

AESOP Fables

MATTHEW ARNOLD Essays in Criticism

GEORGE BRANDES Main Currents of the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

ROBERT BURTON The Anatomy of Melancholy

THOMAS CARLYLE On Heroes and Hero-Worship

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Concerning Friendship

WILLIAM COBBETT Advice to Young Men

DANIEL DEFOE A Journal of the Plague Year

DEMOSTHENES The Philippics

RALPH WALDO EMERSON English Traits

ERASMUS Familiar Colloquies

GESTA ROMANORUM A Story-Book of the Middle Ages

OLIVER GOLDSMITH The Citizen of the World

HENRY HALLAM Introduction to the Literature of Europe

WILLIAM HAZLITT Lectures on the English Poets

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

LA BRUYERE Characters

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Imaginary Conversations

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Reflections and Moral Maxims

LEONARDO DA VINCI Treatise on Painting

GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Laocoon

JOHN STUART MILL Essay on Liberty

JOHN MILTON Areopagitica

PLUTARCH Parallel Lives

MADAME DE STAEL On Germany

THE "GERMANIA" OF TACITUS Customs and Peoples of Germany

HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE History of English Literature

HENRY DAVID THOREAU "Walden"

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Democracy in America

IZAAK WALTON The Compleat Angler

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Transcriber's Notes

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