Volume 1 — A Child’s Book in Prose and Rhyme. By the Author of ‘John Halifax.’ With numerous Illustrations by Clarence Dobell.
Reading edition
LITTLE ESTELLA
AND OTHER FAIRY TALES.
By MAY BEVERLEY. With Frontispiece.
MY FIRST JOURNAL:
A Book for Children. By GEORGIANA M. CRAIK, author of ‘Lost and Won’.
With Frontispiece.
AGNES HOPETOUN’S SCHOOLS AND HOLIDAYS.
By Mrs. OLIPHANT, Author of ‘Margaret Maitland.’ With Frontispiece.
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THE GOLDEN TREASURY
Of the best Songs and lyrical Poems in the English language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by F. T. Palgrave. Fifteenth Thousand, with a Vignette by T. Woolner.
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From the best Poets. Selected and arranged by Coventry Patmore. Fourth Thousand, with Vignette by T. Woolner.
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BACON’S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL.
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WORKS BY DAVID MASSON, M.A.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.
LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
Narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his time. Vol. 1. 8vo. with Portraits, 18s.
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BRITISH NOVELISTS AND THEIR STYLES;
Being a critical sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.
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ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.
Chiefly on English Poets. By DAVID MASSON. 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d.
CONTENTS:
I. SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE.
II. MILTON’S YOUTH.
III. THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER’S, MILTON’S, AND GOETHE’S.
IV. DRYDEN, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION.
V. DEAN SWIFT.
VI. CHATTERTON: A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770.
VII. WORDSWORTH.
VIII. SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ON BRITISH LITERATURE.
IX. THEORIES OF POETRY.
X. PROSE AND VERSE: DE QUINCEY.
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RELIGIO CHEMICI.
By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. late Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. Crown 8vo. cloth.
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Letters on Religious Subjects. By GEORGE WILSON. M.D.
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THE FIVE GATEWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE.
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THE PROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH.
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MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E.
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Late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh.
By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. and ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S.E.
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