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CONTENTS MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY. INTRODUCTION. PREFACE. RHYME AND REASON. ON THE PRACTICAL BATHOS. NICKNAMES. YES AND NO. THOUGHTS ON THE WORDS “TURN OUT.” SOLITUDE IN A CROWD. POLITENESS AND POLITESSE. A WINDSOR BALL. LOVERS’ VOWS. ON THE PRACTICAL ASYNDETON. ON HAIR-DRESSING. ON A CERTAIN AGE. NOT AT HOME. MUSÆ O’CONNORIANÆ. THE KNIGHT AND THE KNAVE. MAD—QUITE MAD! THE BOGLE OF ANNESLIE; OR, THE THREE-CORNERED HAT. ON THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY AT ETON. THE MISTAKE; OR, SIXES AND SEVENS. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. MR. LOZELL’S ESSAY ON WEATHERCOCKS. GOLIGHTLY’S ESSAY ON BLUES. OLD BOOTS. ON THE DIVINITIES OF THE ANCIENTS. REMINISCENCES OF MY YOUTH. ON TRUE FRIENDSHIP. THE COUNTRY CURATE. THE WEDDING: PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF PEREGRINE COURTENAY. ABDICATION OF THE KING OF CLUBS. THE UNION CLUB. MY FIRST FOLLY. POINTS. LEONORA. DAMASIPPUS. MY FIRST FLAME. THE INCONVENIENCE OF HAVING AN ELDER BROTHER. TOUJOURS PERDRIX. THE BEST ΒΑΤ IN THE SCHOOL.

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BY WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY SIR GEORGE YOUNG, Bart., Μ.A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL GLASGOW AND NEW YORK 1887

MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.

1. Sheridan’s Plays.

2. Plays from Molière. By English Dramatists.

3. Marlow’s Faustus and Goethe’s Faust.

4. Chronicle of the Cid.

5. Rabelais’ Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel.

6. Machiavelli’s Prince.

7. Bacon’s Essays.

8. Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.

9. Locke on Civil Government and Filmer’s “Patriarcha.”

10. Butler’s Analogy of Religion.

11. Dryden’s Virgil.

12. Scott’s Demonology and Witchcraft.

13. Herrick’s Hesperides.

14. Coleridge’s Table-Talk.

15. Boccaccio’s Decameron.

16. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.

17. Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad.

18. Mediæval Tales.

19. Voltaire’s Candide, and Johnson’s Rasselas.

20. Jonson’s Plays and Poems.

21. Hobbes’s Leviathan.

22. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras.

23. Ideal Commonwealths.

24. Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey.

25 & 26. Don Quixote.

27. Burlesque Plays and Poems.

28. Dante’s Divine Comedy. Longfellow’s Translation.

29. Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems.

30. Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit. (Hitopadesa.)

31. Lamb’s Essays of Elia.

32. The History of Thomas Εllwood.

33. Emerson’s Essays, &c.

34. Southey’s Life of Nelson.

35. De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater, &c.

36. Stories of Ireland. By Miss Edgeworth.

37. Frere’s Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds.

38. Burke’s Speeches and Letters.

39. Thomas à Kempis.

40. Popular Songs of Ireland.

41. Potter’s Æschylus.

42. Goethe’s Faust: Part II. Anster’s Translation.

43. Famous Pamphlets.

44. Francklin’s Sophocles.

45. M. G. Lewis’s Tales of Terror and Wonder.

46. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.

47. Drayton’s Barons’ Wars, Nymphidia, &c.

48. Cobbett’s Advice to Young Men.

49. The Banquet of Dante.

50. Walker’s Original.

51. Schiller’s Poems and Ballads.

52. Peele’s Plays and Poems.

53. Harrington’s Oceana.

54. Euripides: Alcestis and other Plays.

55. Praed’s Essays.

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