BACON'S ESSAYS

Selected, with an Introduction and Notes, by

MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT

Late Professor of English Literature at Smith College

These essays, the distilled wisdom of a great observer upon the affairs of common life, are of endless interest and profit. The more one reads them the more remarkable seem their compactness and their vitality.

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ADAM BEDE

BY GEORGE ELIOT

With an Introduction by

LAURA J. WYLIE

Professor of English at Vassar College

With the publication of "Adam Bede" in 1859, it was evident both to England and America that a great novelist had appeared. 'Adam Bede" is the most natural of George Eliot's books, simple in problem, direct in action, with the freshness and strength of the Derbyshire landscape and character and speech in its pages.

THE RING AND THE BOOK
BY ROBERT BROWNING

With an Introduction by

FREDERICK MORGAN PADELFORD
Professor of English at Washington University

""The Ring and the Book,' says Dr. Padelford in his introduction, "is Browning's supreme literary achievement. It was written after the poet had attained complete mastery of his very individual style; it absorbed his creative activity for a prolonged period; and it issued with the stamp of his characteristic genius on every page."

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S

ESSAYS

With an Introduction by

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
Professor of English at Yale University

This volume includes not only essays in formal literary criticism, but also of personal monologue and gossip, as well as philosophical essays on the greatest themes that can occupy the mind of man. All reveal the complex, whimsical, humorous, romantic, imaginative, puritanical personality now known everywhere by the formula R. L. S.

PENDENNIS

BY THACKERAY

With an Introduction by

ROBERT MORSS LOVETT

Professor of English at the University of Chicago

"Pendennis" stands as a great representative of biographical fiction and reflects more of the details of Thackeray's life than all his other writings. Of its kind there is probably no more interesting book in our literature.

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RETURN OF THE NATIVE
BY THOMAS HARDY

With an Introduction and Notes by

JOHN W. CUNLIFFE

Professor of English at Columbia University

"The Return of the Native" is probably Thomas Hardy's great tragic masterpiece. It carries to the highest perfection the rare genius of the finished writer. It presents in the most remarkable way Hardy's interpretation of nature in which there is a perfec unison between the physical world and the human character.

SELECTIONS FROM
"THE FEDERALIST"

Edited with an Introduction by
JOHN SPENCER BASSETT

Professor of History in Smith College

A careful and discriminating selection of the "Essays written in favor of the new constitution, as agreed upon by the federal convention, September 17, 1787."

HISTORICAL ESSAYS

BY LORD MACAULAY

Selected with an Introduction by
CHARLES DOWNER HAZEN

Professor of History at Columbia University

A group of the better-known historical essays which includes "John Hampden," "William Pitt," "The Earl of Chatham," "Lord Clive," “Warren Hastings," "Machiavelli,” and “Frederick the Great.”

SARTOR RESARTUS

BY THOMAS CARLYLE

Edited with an Introduction by

ASHLEY THORNDIKE

Professor of English at Columbia University

This "Nonsense on Clothes," as Carlyle referred to it in one entry of his journal, reaches into all the human realm and is perhaps the greatest philosophical expression of Carlyle's genius. Surely there is a power of pure thought which he has put into the mind of Professor Teufelsdröckh and a charm of words which he has given him to speak which he has nowhere surpassed.

A glossary in this edition will be of invaluable service to the student.