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Introduction to English Literature
By HENRY S. PANCOAST
Fourth Edition, enlarged. 725 pages. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net
Prof. C. H. Herford, Litt.D.: “Seems to me to fulfil better, on the whole, than any other ‘Introduction’ known to me, the real requirements of such a book as distinguished from a ‘Sketch’ or a ‘Summary.’... Should serve in particular as an excellent text-book in the courses on English Literature now required for the London Intermediate.”
A First View of English Literature
By HENRY S. PANCOAST and PERCY VAN DYKE SHELLY
With 44 Illustrations and 2 Maps. 6s. net
Introduction to American Literature
By HENRY S. PANCOAST
Crown 8vo. 6s. net
Spectator: “A very useful volume; we do not know where we could find a more compendious manual of its subject. Of a modest size and price, it is qualified to furnish a very good working knowledge of American writers and writings.”
History of the English Language
By T. R. LOUNSBURY, Professor in Yale University
New Edition, Revised. 6s. net
Sir Walter Raleigh: “One of the most readable of the shorter histories of the language.”
A Handbook to the Works of William Shakespeare
By MORTON LUCE
Second Edition. 6s. net
Pall Mall Gazette: “Into something less than 500 pages he has condensed a summary of the best critical opinion in regard to the author and his works, and it is all so well arranged that the student has no difficulty in turning up the point on which he wishes information.”
A Handbook to the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
By MORTON LUCE
With Bibliography. Fifth Edition. 6s. net
Prof. Dowden: “Your ‘Handbook to Tennyson’ seems to me excellent in its fulness of knowledge, its arrangement, and its appreciation of the poet’s characteristics. One learns something from nearly every page.”
Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning
By MRS. SUTHERLAND ORR
Twelfth Edition, with a Bibliography. 6s. net
THE MOST RELIABLE BOOK OF REFERENCE IN THE WORLD
WEBSTER’S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY
A DICTIONARY AND ENCYCLOPÆDIA COMBINED
442,000Defined Words and Phrases2,700Quarto Pages6,000IllustrationsWith Addendum of New Words and PhrasesBiographical Dictionary and Gazetteer
“Webster’s ‘New International’ Dictionary is indeed a library in itself, and no collection of books, whether large or small, should be, in my opinion, without a copy.”
Sir SIDNEY LEE, D.Litt.
“The best English Dictionary in one volume that has been published; no other one-volume work of the kind is so complete in its records of words, or so adequate, not only in definitions, but in the encyclopædic information which it so often supplies.”
Professor EDWARD DOWDEN, M.A., LL.D., D.C.L.
Write to the Publishers for detailed Prospectus,Specimen Pages, and the Opinions of eminentmen on the “New International.”
G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.Portugal Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2.
Footnotes:
[1]In later times this has been confused with the very different doctrine that there is a domain of authoritywithinthe domain of reason.
[2]I.e., if Ainsworth was the author ofSir John Chiverton.
[3]The ‘Young Friend’ to whom these remarkable letters are addressed is now Lady Hills-Johnes, of Dolancothy, Carmarthenshire.
[4]One early criticism was that the book was suspiciouslyteres atque rotundus.