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15. BYRON’S LETTERS AND JOURNALS. SELECTED, with Introduction, by Mathilde Blind.
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19. THE MEDITATIONS OF MARCUS AURELIUS. Edited by Alice Zimmern.
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27. PROSE WRITINGS OF HEINE. With Introduction by Havelock Ellis.
28. REYNOLDS’S DISCOURSES. With Introduction by Helen Zimmern.
29. PAPERS OF STEELE AND ADDISON. Edited by Walter Lewin.
30. BURNS’S LETTERS. Selected and Arranged, with Introduction, by J. Logie Robertson, M.A.
31. VOLSUNGA SAGA. William Morris. With Introduction by H. H. Sparling.
32. SARTOR RESARTUS. By Thomas Carlyle. With Introduction by Ernest Rhys.
33. SELECT WRITINGS OF EMERSON. With Introduction by Percival Chubb.
34. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD HERBERT. Edited, with an Introduction, by Will H. Dircks.
35. ENGLISH PROSE, FROM MAUNDEVILLE TO THACKERAY. Chosen and Edited by Arthur Galton.
36. THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY, AND OTHER PLAYS. By Henrik Ibsen. Edited, with an Introduction, by Havelock Ellis.
37. IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES. Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats.
38. ESSAYS OF DR. JOHNSON, with Biographical Introduction and Notes by Stuart J. Reid.
39. ESSAYS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT. Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr.
40. LANDOR’S PENTAMERON, AND OTHER IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS. Edited, with a Preface, by H. Ellis.
41. POE’S TALES AND ESSAYS. Edited, with Introduction, by Ernest Rhys.
42. VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By Oliver Goldsmith. Edited, with Preface, by Ernest Rhys.
43. POLITICAL ORATIONS, FROM WENTWORTH TO MACAULAY. Edited, with Introduction, by William Clarke.
44. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
45. THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
46. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
47. LORD CHESTERFIELD’S LETTERS TO HIS SON. Selected, with Introduction, by Charles Sayle.
48. STORIES FROM CARLETON. Selected, with Introduction, by W. Yeats.
49. JANE EYRE. BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË. Edited by Clement K. Shorter.
50. ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND. Edited by Lothrop Withington, with a Preface by Dr. Furnivall.
51. THE PROSE WRITINGS OF THOMAS DAVIS. Edited by T. W. Rolleston.
52. SPENCE’S ANECDOTES. A SELECTION. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by John Underhill.
53. MORE’S UTOPIA, AND LIFE OF EDWARD V. Edited, with an Introduction, by Maurice Adams.
54. SADI’S GULISTAN, OR FLOWER GARDEN. Translated, with an Essay, by James Ross.
55. ENGLISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES. Edited by E. Sidney Hartland.
56. NORTHERN STUDIES. BY EDMUND GOSSE. With a Note by Ernest Rhys.
57. EARLY REVIEWS OF GREAT WRITERS. Edited by E. Stevenson.
58. ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS. With George Henry Lewes’s Essay on Aristotle prefixed.
59. LANDOR’S PERICLES AND ASPASIA. Edited, with an Introduction, by Havelock Ellis.
60. ANNALS OF TACITUS. Thomas Gordon’s Translation. Edited, with an Introduction, by Arthur Galton.
61. ESSAYS OF ELIA. BY CHARLES LAMB. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ernest Rhys.
62. BALZAC’S SHORTER STORIES. Translated by William Wilson and the Count Stenbock.
63. COMEDIES OF DE MUSSET. Edited, with an Introductory Note, by S. L. Gwynn.
64. CORAL REEFS. BY CHARLES DARWIN. Edited, with an Introduction, by Dr. J. W. Williams.
65. SHERIDAN’S PLAYS. Edited, with an Introduction, by Rudolf Dircks.
66. OUR VILLAGE. BY MISS MITFORD. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ernest Rhys.
67. MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK, AND OTHER STORIES. By Charles Dickens. With Introduction by Frank T. Marzials.
68. TALES FROM WONDERLAND. By Rudolph Baumbach. Translated by Helen B. Dole.
69. ESSAYS AND PAPERS BY DOUGLAS JERROLD. Edited by Walter Jerrold.
70. VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN. By Mary Wollstonecraft. Introduction by Mrs. E. Robins Pennell.
71. “THE ATHENIAN ORACLE.” A SELECTION. Edited by John Underhill, with Prefatory Note by Walter Besant.
72. ESSAYS OF SAINTE-BEUVE. Translated and Edited, with an Introduction, by Elizabeth Lee.
73. SELECTIONS FROM PLATO. From the Translation of Sydenham and Taylor. Edited by T. W. Rolleston.
74. HEINE’S ITALIAN TRAVEL SKETCHES, ETC. Translated by Elizabeth A. Sharp. With an Introduction from the French of ThÉophile Gautier.
75. SCHILLER’S MAID OF ORLEANS. Translated, with an Introduction, by Major-General Patrick Maxwell.
76. SELECTIONS FROM SYDNEY SMITH. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ernest Rhys.
77. THE NEW SPIRIT. By Havelock Ellis.
78. THE BOOK OF MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES. From the “Morte d’Arthur.” Edited by Ernest Rhys. [This, together with No. 1, forms the complete “Morte d’Arthur.”]
79. ESSAYS AND APHORISMS. By Sir Arthur Helps. With an Introduction by E. A. Helps.
80. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE. Selected, With a Prefatory Note, by Percival Chubb.
81. THE LUCK OF BARRY LYNDON. By W. M. Thackeray. Edited by F. T. Marzials.
82. SCHILLER’S WILLIAM TELL. Translated, with an Introduction, by Major-General Patrick Maxwell.
83. CARLYLE’S ESSAYS ON GERMAN LITERATURE. With an Introduction by Ernest Rhys.

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• LIFE OF LONGFELLOW. By Prof. Eric S. Robertson.

  “A most readable little work.”—Liverpool Mercury.

• LIFE OF COLERIDGE. By Hall Caine.

  “Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill.”—Scotsman.

• LIFE OF DICKENS. By Frank T. Marzials.

  “Notwithstanding the mass of matter that has been printed relating to Dickens and his works … we should, until we came across this volume, have been at a loss to recommend any popular life of England’s most popular novelist as being really satisfactory. The difficulty is removed by Mr. Marzials’s little book.”—AthenÆum.

• LIFE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. By J. Knight.

  “Mr. Knight’s picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and best yet presented to the public.”—The Graphic.

• LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. By Colonel F. Grant.

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• LIFE OF DARWIN. By G. T. Bettany.

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• LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË. By A. Birrell.

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• LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE. By R. Garnett, LL.D.

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• LIFE OF ADAM SMITH. By R. B. Haldane, M.P.

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• LIFE OF KEATS. By W. M. Rossetti.

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• LIFE OF SHELLEY. By William Sharp.

  “The criticisms … entitle this capital monograph to be ranked with the best biographies of Shelley.”—Westminster Review.

• LIFE OF SMOLLETT. By David Hannay.

  “A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel.”—Saturday Review.

• LIFE OF GOLDSMITH. By Austin Dobson.

  “The story of his literary and social life in London, with all its humorous and pathetic vicissitudes, is here retold, as none could tell it better.”—Daily News.

• LIFE OF SCOTT. By Professor Yonge.

  “This is a most enjoyable book.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

• LIFE OF BURNS. By Professor Blackie.

  “The editor certainly made a hit when he persuaded Blackie to write about Burns.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

• LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO. By Frank T. Marzials.

  “Mr. Marzials’s volume presents to us, in a more handy form than any English or even French handbook gives, the summary of what is known about the life of the great poet.”—Saturday Review.

• LIFE OF EMERSON. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.

  “No record of Emerson’s life could be more desirable.”—Saturday Review.

• LIFE OF GOETHE. By James Sime.

  “Mr. James Sime’s competence as a biographer of Goethe is beyond question.”—Manchester Guardian.

• LIFE OF CONGREVE. By Edmund Gosse.

  “Mr. Gosse has written an admirable biography.”—Academy.

• LIFE OF BUNYAN. By Canon Venables.

  “A most intelligent, appreciative, and valuable memoir.”—Scotsman.

• LIFE OF CRABBE. By T. E. Kebbel.

  “No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely.”—AthenÆum.

• LIFE OF HEINE. By William Sharp.

  “An admirable monograph … more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism than any other English work.”—Scotsman.

• LIFE OF MILL. By W. L. Courtney.

  “A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir.”—Glasgow Herald.

• LIFE OF SCHILLER. By Henry W. Nevinson.

  “Presents the poet’s life in a neatly rounded picture.”—Scotsman.

• LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT. By David Hannay.

  “We have nothing but praise for the manner in which Mr. Hannay has done justice to him.”—Saturday Review.

• LIFE OF LESSING. By T. W. Rolleston.

  “One of the best books of the series.”—Manchester Guardian.

• LIFE OF MILTON. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.

  “Has never been more charmingly or adequately told.”—Scottish Leader.

• LIFE OF BALZAC. By Frederick Wedmore.

  “Mr. Wedmore’s monograph on the greatest of French writers of fiction, whose greatness is to be measured by comparison with his successors, is a piece of careful and critical composition, neat and nice in style.”—Daily News.

• LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT. By Oscar Browning.

  “A book of the character of Mr Browning’s, to stand midway between the bulky work of Mr. Cross and the very slight sketch of Miss Blind, was much to be desired, and Mr. Browning has done his work with vivacity, and not without skill.”—Manchester Guardian.

• LIFE OF JANE AUSTEN. By Goldwin Smith.

  “Mr. Goldwin Smith has added another to the not inconsiderable roll of eminent men who have found their delight in Miss Austen…. His little book upon her, just published by Walter Scott, is certainly a fascinating book to those who already know her and love her well; and we have little doubt that it will prove also a fascinating book to those who have still to make her acquaintance.”—Spectator.

• LIFE OF BROWNING. By William Sharp.

  “This little volume is a model of excellent English, and in every respect it seems to us what a biography should be.”—Public Opinion.

• LIFE OF BYRON. By Hon. Roden Noel.

  “The Hon. Roden Noel’s volume on Byron is decidedly one of the most readable in the excellent ‘Great Writers’ series.”—Scottish Leader.

• LIFE OF HAWTHORNE. By Moncure Conway.

  “It is a delightful causerie—pleasant, genial talk about a most interesting man. Easy and conversational as the tone is throughout, no important fact is omitted, no valueless fact is recalled; and it is entirely exempt from platitude and conventionality.”—The Speaker.

• LIFE OF SCHOPENHAUER. By Professor Wallace.

  “We can speak very highly of this little book of Mr. Wallace’s. It is, perhaps, excessively lenient in dealing with the man, and it cannot be said to be at all ferociously critical in dealing with the philosophy.”—Saturday Review.

• LIFE OF SHERIDAN. By Lloyd Sanders.

  “To say that Mr. Lloyd Sanders, in this little volume, has produced the best existing memoir of Sheridan, is really to award much fainter praise than the work deserves.”—Manchester Examiner.

• LIFE OF THACKERAY. By Herman Merivale and P. T. Marzials.

  “The monograph just published is well worth reading…. and the book, with its excellent bibliography, is one which neither the student nor the general reader can well afford to miss.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

• LIFE OF CERVANTES. By H. E. Watts.

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