FOR Classes in English Literature, Reading, Grammar, etc. EDITED BY EMINENT ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SCHOLARS. Each Volume contains a Sketch of the Author's Life, Prefatory and These Volumes are thoroughly adapted for Schools in which English Literature forms a branch of study, or where a carefully-selected por- tion of some English Classic is selected for minute examination, or for supplementary reading matter. The notes are unusually full and exhaustive, occupying in many volumes nearly half the book. Ety- mology is attended to throughout, the derivations of all the more difficult words being given. In short, they supply the student with all the information necessary to a perfect understanding and just appre- ciation of the text, and incidentally communicate much useful philo- 2 Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. 8 Lord Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral. (Selected.) 4 Byron's Prisoner of Chillon. 5 Moore's Fire-Worshippers. (Lalla Rookh. Selected from Parts I. 6 Goldsmith's Deserted Village. 7 Scott's Marmion. (Selections from Canto VI.) 8 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Introduction and Canto I.) 66 9 Burns' Cotter's Saturday Night, and Other Poems. "11 Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. (Abridgment of Part I.) "12 Macaulay's Essay on Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. "18 Macaulay's Armada and other Poems. "14 Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. (Selections from Acts I., III. No. 25 Wordsworth's Excursion. (Book I.) "26 Pope's Essay on Criticism. (Cantos I. and II.) "80 Tennyson's Enoch Arden, The Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, and Tithonus. "81 Irving's Sketch Book. (Selections.) 82 Dickens' Christmas Carol. (Condensed.) 83 Carlyle's Hero as a Prophet. "84 Macaulay's Warren Hastings. (Condensed.) "85 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. (Condensed.) 66 86 Tennyson's The Two Voices, and A Dream of Fair Women. "37 Memory Quotations. "88 Cavalier Poets. "89 Dryden's Alexander's Feast, and MacFlecknoe. "40 Keats' The Eve of St. Agnes. "41 Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow. "42 Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. "44 Webster's Bunker Hill Orations. "45 The Academy Orthoëpist. A Manual of Pronunciation. "46 Milton's Lycidas, and Hymn on the Nativity. "47 Bryant's Thanatopsis, and Other Poems. "48 Ruskin's Modern Painters. (Selections.) "49 The Shakespeare Speaker. "50 Thackeray's Roundabout Papers. 66 51 Webster's Oration on Adams and Jefferson. "52 Brown's Rab and His Friends. "53 Morris's Life and Death of Jason. "54 Burke's Speech on American Taxation. "55 Pope's Rape of the Lock. "56 Tennyson's Elaine. "57 Tennyson's In Memoriam. "58 Church's Story of the Æneid. 66 59 Church's Story of the Iliad. 66 60 Swift's Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput. "61 Macaulay's Essay on Lord Bacon. (Condensed.) 66 62 The Alcestis of Euripides. English Version by Rev. R. Potter, M.A. 66 63 The Antigone of Sophocles. English Version by Thomas Franck lin, D.D. "64 Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Selected Poems.) "65 Robert Browning. (Selected Poems.) "66 Addison's The Spectator. (Selections.) 66 67 Scenes from George Eliot's Adam Bede. "68 Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. Continued on last page. |