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DICKENS.
CARLYLE.

ISAAC WALTON.

SIR A. HELPS.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
SHERIDAN.
MACAULAY.

COVENTRY PATMORE
SOUTHEY.

PHILIP SIDNEY.
JOHN MILTON.
DICKENS.

BYRON.

EDGEWORTH.

SILVIO PELLICO.

GOLDSMITH.

BOCCACCIO.

PALGRAVE.
JOHNSON.
MILTON.

LA MOTTE FOUQUE.
XENOPHON,

SPENSER.

LA MOTTE FOUQUE.
M. G. LEWIS.
AUBREY De Vera,
MAUNDEVILLE,
WALPOLE.

PLUTARCH.

MARTIN LUTHER.

The L fe and Adventures of Baron Trenck (Vols. I. & II.).

The Natural History of Selborne (Vols. I. & II.)

Lives of Pericles, Fabius Maximus, &c.

Victories of Love

Sorrows of Werter ..

Lives of Butler, Denham, Dryden, &c.
Religio Medici..

The North-West Passage

Lives of Addison, Savage, and Swift

Lives of Timoleon, Paulus Emilius, &c.

Wisdom of the Ancients

Earlier Poems..

Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

Francis Bacon

Lives of Prior, Congreve, &c.

Voyagers' Tales

The Christian Year

Earl of Chatham

GILBERT WHITE.
PLUTARCH,

COVENTRY PATMORE
GOETHE.

SAMUEL JOHNSON.
SIR T. BROWNE.
RICHARD HAKLUYT.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
PLUTARCH.
BACON.
MILTON.

COLERIDGE.

MACAULAY.

SAMUEL JOHNSON.
RICHARD HAKLUYT.

JOHN KEBle.

MACAULAY.

PLUTARCH.

SAMUEL JOHNSON,

Lives of Solon, Publicola, &c.
A Journey to the Hebrides
Shakespeare's Plays:-Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth,
Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, Much Ado about
Nothing, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that
Ends Well, King Henry VIII., King John, A Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, As You Like It, Coriolanus, Richard II., King Henry IV.
(Parc I.), King Henry IV. (Part II.), Merry Wives of Windsor, King
Henry V., Taming of the Shrew. King Lear. Cymbeline, Romeo
and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost,
King Henry VI. (Part I.), King Henry VI. (Part II.), King Henry VI.
(Part III.), Richard III., Twelfth-Night, Titus Andronicus.

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The Comedy of Errors. By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
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1892.

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INTRODUCTION.

IN 1763, when Johnson was fifty-four years old, talk one day with young Boswell, whose age then was twenty-three, about a young man who was a good scholar and a Highland chief, caused Johnson to express a wish to visit the Western Highlands of Scotland. To Boswell this seemed a very romantic fancy, which he little thought would be afterwards realised. But Johnson, he said, "told me that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particularly struck with the St. Kilda man's notion that the high church of Glasgow had been hollowed out of a rock; a circumstance to which old Mr. Johnson directed his attention. He said he would go to the Hebrides with me when I returned from my travels, unless some very good companion should offer when I was absent, which he did not think probable; adding, "There are few people whom I take so much to as you." Certainly there was no London friend, of those days, whom even Johnson could have tempted to take holiday in the Hebrides. To Boswell they were not so far afield. In 1763

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