IN WEEKLY VOLUMES, price 3d.; or in Cloth, 6d. CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

Edited by HENRY MORLEY, LL.D.

List of Second Year's Volumes, now in course of publication.

74. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1664-1665.
75. An Essay on Man, and other Poems
76. A Tour in Ireland.-1776-1779
77 & 78. Knickerbocker's History of New
York. 2 vols.

79. A Midsummer-Night's Dream

JOHN KEBLE.

CHARLES WATERTON.

J. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
PLUTARCH.

LORD MACAULAY.
ISAAC BARROW, D.D.

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THOMAS LODGE.
STEELE and ADDISON.
W. S. LANDOR.
LORD MACAULAY.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

REV. GILBERT WHITE,
COVENTRY PATMORE.
LUCIAN.
PLUTARCH.

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ALEXANDER POPE.
ARTHUR YOUNG.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

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80. The Banquet of Plato, and other Pieces PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 81. A Voyage to Lisbon

82. My Beautiful Lady, &c.

83 & 84. Travels in the Interior of Africa.

2 vols.

85. The Temple

HENRY FIELDING.
THOMAS WOOLNER.

MUNGO PARK,

GEORGE HERBERT.

86. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Jan. to Oct., 1666). 87. King Henry VIII.

83. An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful

8. Lives of Timoleon, Paulus Æmilius, &c.
90. Endymion, and other Poems
91. A Voyage to Abyssinia

92. Sintram and his Companions, &c.
93. Human Nature, and other Sermons

94. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Nov., 1666,
95. The Life and Death of King John'
96. The History of the Caliph Vathek
97. Poems

98. Colloquies on Society

99. Lives of Agesilaus, Pompey, & Phocion 100. The Winter's Tale

101. The Table-Talk of John Selden. ́

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EDMUND BURKE.
PLUTARCH.

JOHN KEATS.
FATHER JEROME LOBO.
LA MOTTE FOUQUE.
BISHOP BUTLER.
to May, 1667).

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WILLIAM BECKFORD.
JOHN DRYDEN.
ROBERT SOUTHEY.
PLUTARCH.

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The next Volume will be

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (June to October, 1667).

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JOHN SELDEN was born at Salvington, near Worthing, on the 16th of December, 1584, about three years and a half before the defeat of the Spanish Armada. His father was a musician, who had married the only daughter of Thomas Baker of Rushington, a mile from Littlehampton; an heiress of the Baker family in Kent. John Selden was eldest of three sons, but his brothers died in infancy; only a sister lived to grow up with him. She married afterwards a John Barnard of Goring, in Sussex, and had two sons. and four daughters. John Selden was sent to the free school at Chichester, where he was under Hugh Barker of New College-afterwards an eminent civil lawyer-and he studied Latin so well, that, at the age of ten, two lines of Latin were carved by him on the lintel of the house at Salvington, called Lacies, in which he was born. The house, which had a farm of about eighty acres