EVAN HARRINGTON BY GEORGE MEREDITH With an Introduction by GEORGE G. REYNOLDS Professor of English Literature, University of Colorado Evan Harrington, one of the greatest demonstrations of George Meredith's genius, is an ironic comment on English society and manners in the latter part of the last century, done with amazing penetration and the best of his humor. In the large, it reflects the struggle between spiritual and moral ideals which was constantly going on in Meredith's mind and which ends in the triumph of the spirit of sacrifice. THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE With an Introduction by H. S. CANBY Formerly Professor of English Literature at Yale University, and Here is one of the most absorbing of Stevenson's romances, full of the spice of adventure and exciting incident, the thrill of danger and the chill of fear; it is, beside, a powerful and subtle study of Scotch character of different types, and brings into being one of the most amazing of all the dramatis personæ of romantic fiction. POEMS AND PLAYS BY ROBERT BROWNING Selected with an Introduction and Notes by Assistant Professor of English in Dartmouth College A volume intended for the student or less-advanced reader of Browning who does not require a complete edition. The introduction suggests an approach to Browning, points out such difficulties as often perplex one who reads Browning for the first time, and states simply a few of the poet's fundamental ideas. THE OREGON TRAIL BY FRANCIS PARKMAN With an Introduction by JAMES CLOYD BOWMAN Professor of English, Northern State Normal College, Marquette, Michigan Parkman's account of life among the pioneers and the Indians paints a vivid picture of conditions which have vanished forever. Here is history told in a style as fascinating and compelling as that of Cooper at his best. As Parkman writes in his preface to the edition of 1892, "the Wild West is tamed, and its savage charms have withered. If this book can help to keep their memory alive, it will have done its part." ESSAYS BY WILLIAM HAZLITT Selected, with an Introduction, by PERCY VAN DYKE SHELLY Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania A selection of the best of Hazlitt, showing the perfection of style and the versatility of interest of this master of the personal essay. The selections here brought together from the twelve bulky volumes of his collected works are designed to illustrate his art in the fields in which he unquestionably excelled. He is a literary critic of the first rank, to be named with Dryden, Coleridge, and Arnold. As a familiar writer he stands alone with Montaigne and Lamb. His criticisms of the stage and of the art of painting are among the best in the language. He could truthfully say: “I have endeavored to feel what is good and to give a reason for the faith that was in me, when necessary and when in my power." THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DAVID CROCKETT With an Introduction by HAMLIN GARLAND The most characteristic figure of the New World for the first two enturies was the man of the "trace" or trail: the settler who, carrying a rifle and an axe, adventured into the wilderness and there hewed out a clearing, built a cabin, and planted corn; whose skill with the flint-lock provided meat for his family, skins for his clothing, and literally kept the wolf from the door. In Crockett's autobiography the reader will find the picture of such a man, a blunt, bold, prosaic account of a life, epic in its sweep, in a crude sort the direct progenitor of Lincoln and Mark Twain. Included in this volume are: "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee," "An Account of Colonel Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East," and "Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas." AMERICAN PROSE MASTERS BY W. C. BROWNELL With an Introduction by STUART P. SHERMAN A book of vital and useful criticism, to produce which "it is necessary" (to use Mr. Brownell's own words) "to think, think, think, and then, when tired of thinking, to think more." Here one finds a critical estimate which leads him to a true appreciation of the work of Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, and Henry James. In his introduction, Mr. Sherman points out that "though the table of contents indicates that this book contains but six American prose masters, the reflective reader soon perceives that it contains a seventh, to whom the rest are indebted for no small part of the interest which they seem to possess in their own right." BARCHESTER TRAIL BY ANTHONY TROLAN With an Introduction by CLARENCE DIMICK STEVENS Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati higan Trollope covered a wide range of subjects in the more than thirty novels that he wrote, but he was at his best in portraying provincial life among the clergy and the gentry in a cathedral city. "Barchester Towers" (1857), the most widely read of his books, is a classic for its unfailing humor, its distinctly drawn characters, and its unerring accuracy in picturing situations that are true to life. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Selected and edited, with an Introduction, by GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER Professor of English at Princeton University Even so sincere a friend of Wordsworth as Matthew Arnold believed that it was essential for the fame of the poet that a selection be made of the poems, and he made one. There is no person better suited to prepare a selection, after his long study and valuable discoveries, than Professor Harper. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK |