THE SEASONS

THE SEASONSThe Seasonsis an unpretentious poem, describing in six short cantos the six seasons into which the Hindus divide the year. The title is perhaps a little misleading, as the description is not objective, but deals with the feelings awakened by each season in a pair of young lovers. Indeed, the poem might be called a Lover's Calendar. Kalidasa's authorship has been doubted, without very cogent argument. The question is not of much interest, asThe Seasonswould neither add greatly to his reputation nor subtract from it.The whole poem contains one hundred and forty-four stanzas, or something less than six hundred lines of verse. There follow a few stanzas selected from each canto.SUMMERPitiless heat from heaven poursBy day, but nights are cool;Continual bathing gently lowersThe water in the pool;The evening brings a charming peace:For summer-time is hereWhen love that never knows surcease,Is less imperious, dear.Yet love can never fall asleep;For he is waked to-dayBy songs that all their sweetness keepAnd lutes that softly play,By fans with sandal-water wetThat bring us drowsy rest,By strings of pearls that gently fretFull many a lovely breast.The sunbeams like the fires are hotThat on the altar wake;The enmity is quite forgotOf peacock and of snake;The peacock spares his ancient foe,For pluck and hunger fail;He hides his burning head belowThe shadow of his tail.Beneath the garland of the raysThat leave no corner cool,The water vanishes in hazeAnd leaves a muddy pool;The cobra does not hunt for foodNor heed the frog at allWho finds beneath the serpent's hoodA sheltering parasol.Dear maiden of the graceful song,To you may summer's powerBring moonbeams clear and garlands longAnd breath of trumpet-flower,Bring lakes that countless lilies dot,Refreshing water-sprays,Sweet friends at evening, and a spotCool after burning days.THE RAINSThe rain advances like a kingIn awful majesty;Hear, dearest, how his thunders ringLike royal drums, and seeHis lightning-banners wave; a cloudFor elephant he rides,And finds his welcome from the crowdOf lovers and of brides.The clouds, a mighty army, marchWith drumlike thunderingAnd stretch upon the rainbow's archThe lightning's flashing string;The cruel arrows of the rainSmite them who love, apartFrom whom they love, with stinging pain,And pierce them to the heart.The forest seems to show its gleeIn flowering nipa plants;In waving twigs of many a treeWind-swept, it seems to dance;Its ketak-blossom's opening sheathIs like a smile put onTo greet the rain's reviving breath,Now pain and heat are gone.To you, dear, may the cloudy timeBring all that you desire,Bring every pleasure, perfect, prime,To set a bride on fire;May rain whereby life wakes and shinesWhere there is power of life,The unchanging friend of clinging vines,Shower blessings on my wife.AUTUMNThe autumn comes, a maiden fairIn slenderness and grace,With nodding rice-stems in her hairAnd lilies in her face.In flowers of grasses she is clad;And as she moves along,Birds greet her with their cooing gladLike bracelets' tinkling song.A diadem adorns the nightOf multitudinous stars;Her silken robe is white moonlight,Set free from cloudy bars;And on her face (the radiant moon)Bewitching smiles are shown:She seems a slender maid, who soonWill be a woman grown.Over the rice-fields, laden plantsAre shivering to the breeze;While in his brisk caresses danceThe blossom-burdened trees;He ruffles every lily-pondWhere blossoms kiss and part,And stirs with lover's fancies fondThe young man's eager heart.WINTERThe bloom of tenderer flowers is pastAnd lilies droop forlorn,For winter-time is come at last,Rich with its ripened corn;Yet for the wealth of blossoms lostSome hardier flowers appearThat bid defiance to the frostOf sterner days, my dear.The vines, remembering summer, shiverIn frosty winds, and gainA fuller life from mere endeavourTo live through all that pain;Yet in the struggle and acquistThey turn as pale and wanAs lonely women who have missedKnown love, now lost and gone.Then may these winter days show forthTo you each known delight,Bring all that women count as worthPure happiness and bright;While villages, with bustling cry,Bring home the ripened corn,And herons wheel through wintry sky,Forget sad thoughts forlorn.EARLY SPRINGNow, dearest, lend a heedful earAnd listen while I singDelights to every maiden dear,The charms of early spring:When earth is dotted with the heapsOf corn, when heron-screamIs rare but sweet, when passion leapsAnd paints a livelier dream.When all must cheerfully applaudA blazing open fire;Or if they needs must go abroad,The sun is their desire;When everybody hopes to findThe frosty chill allayedBy garments warm, a window-blindShut, and a sweet young maid.Then may the days of early springFor you be rich and fullWith love's proud, soft philanderingAnd many a candy-pull,With sweetest rice and sugar-cane:And may you float aboveThe absent grieving and the painOf separated love.SPRINGA stalwart soldier comes, the spring,Who bears the bow of Love;And on that bow, the lustrous stringIs made of bees, that moveWith malice as they speed the shaftOf blossoming mango-flowerAt us, dear, who have never laughedAt love, nor scorned his power.Their blossom-burden weights the trees;The winds in fragrance move;The lakes are bright with lotuses,The women bright with love;The days are soft, the evenings clearAnd charming; everythingThat moves and lives and blossoms, dear,Is sweeter in the spring.The groves are beautifully brightFor many and many a mileWith jasmine-flowers that are as whiteAs loving woman's smile:The resolution of a saintMight well be tried by this;Far more, young hearts that fancies paintWith dreams of loving bliss.[Temple press]MADE AT THE TEMPLEPRESS LETCHWORTH IN GREAT BRITAINEVERYMAN'S LIBRARYBy Ernest RhysVictor Hugo said a Library was "an act of faith," and some unknown essayist spoke of one so beautiful, so perfect, so harmonious in all its parts, that he who made it was smitten with a passion. 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The Seasonsis an unpretentious poem, describing in six short cantos the six seasons into which the Hindus divide the year. The title is perhaps a little misleading, as the description is not objective, but deals with the feelings awakened by each season in a pair of young lovers. Indeed, the poem might be called a Lover's Calendar. Kalidasa's authorship has been doubted, without very cogent argument. The question is not of much interest, asThe Seasonswould neither add greatly to his reputation nor subtract from it.

The whole poem contains one hundred and forty-four stanzas, or something less than six hundred lines of verse. There follow a few stanzas selected from each canto.

SUMMER

Pitiless heat from heaven poursBy day, but nights are cool;Continual bathing gently lowersThe water in the pool;The evening brings a charming peace:For summer-time is hereWhen love that never knows surcease,Is less imperious, dear.Yet love can never fall asleep;For he is waked to-dayBy songs that all their sweetness keepAnd lutes that softly play,By fans with sandal-water wetThat bring us drowsy rest,By strings of pearls that gently fretFull many a lovely breast.The sunbeams like the fires are hotThat on the altar wake;The enmity is quite forgotOf peacock and of snake;The peacock spares his ancient foe,For pluck and hunger fail;He hides his burning head belowThe shadow of his tail.Beneath the garland of the raysThat leave no corner cool,The water vanishes in hazeAnd leaves a muddy pool;The cobra does not hunt for foodNor heed the frog at allWho finds beneath the serpent's hoodA sheltering parasol.Dear maiden of the graceful song,To you may summer's powerBring moonbeams clear and garlands longAnd breath of trumpet-flower,Bring lakes that countless lilies dot,Refreshing water-sprays,Sweet friends at evening, and a spotCool after burning days.

Yet love can never fall asleep;For he is waked to-dayBy songs that all their sweetness keepAnd lutes that softly play,By fans with sandal-water wetThat bring us drowsy rest,By strings of pearls that gently fretFull many a lovely breast.

The sunbeams like the fires are hotThat on the altar wake;The enmity is quite forgotOf peacock and of snake;The peacock spares his ancient foe,For pluck and hunger fail;He hides his burning head belowThe shadow of his tail.

Beneath the garland of the raysThat leave no corner cool,The water vanishes in hazeAnd leaves a muddy pool;The cobra does not hunt for foodNor heed the frog at allWho finds beneath the serpent's hoodA sheltering parasol.

Dear maiden of the graceful song,To you may summer's powerBring moonbeams clear and garlands longAnd breath of trumpet-flower,Bring lakes that countless lilies dot,Refreshing water-sprays,Sweet friends at evening, and a spotCool after burning days.

THE RAINS

The rain advances like a kingIn awful majesty;Hear, dearest, how his thunders ringLike royal drums, and seeHis lightning-banners wave; a cloudFor elephant he rides,And finds his welcome from the crowdOf lovers and of brides.The clouds, a mighty army, marchWith drumlike thunderingAnd stretch upon the rainbow's archThe lightning's flashing string;The cruel arrows of the rainSmite them who love, apartFrom whom they love, with stinging pain,And pierce them to the heart.The forest seems to show its gleeIn flowering nipa plants;In waving twigs of many a treeWind-swept, it seems to dance;Its ketak-blossom's opening sheathIs like a smile put onTo greet the rain's reviving breath,Now pain and heat are gone.To you, dear, may the cloudy timeBring all that you desire,Bring every pleasure, perfect, prime,To set a bride on fire;May rain whereby life wakes and shinesWhere there is power of life,The unchanging friend of clinging vines,Shower blessings on my wife.

The clouds, a mighty army, marchWith drumlike thunderingAnd stretch upon the rainbow's archThe lightning's flashing string;The cruel arrows of the rainSmite them who love, apartFrom whom they love, with stinging pain,And pierce them to the heart.

The forest seems to show its gleeIn flowering nipa plants;In waving twigs of many a treeWind-swept, it seems to dance;Its ketak-blossom's opening sheathIs like a smile put onTo greet the rain's reviving breath,Now pain and heat are gone.

To you, dear, may the cloudy timeBring all that you desire,Bring every pleasure, perfect, prime,To set a bride on fire;May rain whereby life wakes and shinesWhere there is power of life,The unchanging friend of clinging vines,Shower blessings on my wife.

AUTUMN

The autumn comes, a maiden fairIn slenderness and grace,With nodding rice-stems in her hairAnd lilies in her face.In flowers of grasses she is clad;And as she moves along,Birds greet her with their cooing gladLike bracelets' tinkling song.A diadem adorns the nightOf multitudinous stars;Her silken robe is white moonlight,Set free from cloudy bars;And on her face (the radiant moon)Bewitching smiles are shown:She seems a slender maid, who soonWill be a woman grown.Over the rice-fields, laden plantsAre shivering to the breeze;While in his brisk caresses danceThe blossom-burdened trees;He ruffles every lily-pondWhere blossoms kiss and part,And stirs with lover's fancies fondThe young man's eager heart.

A diadem adorns the nightOf multitudinous stars;Her silken robe is white moonlight,Set free from cloudy bars;And on her face (the radiant moon)Bewitching smiles are shown:She seems a slender maid, who soonWill be a woman grown.

Over the rice-fields, laden plantsAre shivering to the breeze;While in his brisk caresses danceThe blossom-burdened trees;He ruffles every lily-pondWhere blossoms kiss and part,And stirs with lover's fancies fondThe young man's eager heart.

WINTER

The bloom of tenderer flowers is pastAnd lilies droop forlorn,For winter-time is come at last,Rich with its ripened corn;Yet for the wealth of blossoms lostSome hardier flowers appearThat bid defiance to the frostOf sterner days, my dear.The vines, remembering summer, shiverIn frosty winds, and gainA fuller life from mere endeavourTo live through all that pain;Yet in the struggle and acquistThey turn as pale and wanAs lonely women who have missedKnown love, now lost and gone.Then may these winter days show forthTo you each known delight,Bring all that women count as worthPure happiness and bright;While villages, with bustling cry,Bring home the ripened corn,And herons wheel through wintry sky,Forget sad thoughts forlorn.

The vines, remembering summer, shiverIn frosty winds, and gainA fuller life from mere endeavourTo live through all that pain;Yet in the struggle and acquistThey turn as pale and wanAs lonely women who have missedKnown love, now lost and gone.

Then may these winter days show forthTo you each known delight,Bring all that women count as worthPure happiness and bright;While villages, with bustling cry,Bring home the ripened corn,And herons wheel through wintry sky,Forget sad thoughts forlorn.

EARLY SPRING

Now, dearest, lend a heedful earAnd listen while I singDelights to every maiden dear,The charms of early spring:When earth is dotted with the heapsOf corn, when heron-screamIs rare but sweet, when passion leapsAnd paints a livelier dream.When all must cheerfully applaudA blazing open fire;Or if they needs must go abroad,The sun is their desire;When everybody hopes to findThe frosty chill allayedBy garments warm, a window-blindShut, and a sweet young maid.Then may the days of early springFor you be rich and fullWith love's proud, soft philanderingAnd many a candy-pull,With sweetest rice and sugar-cane:And may you float aboveThe absent grieving and the painOf separated love.

When all must cheerfully applaudA blazing open fire;Or if they needs must go abroad,The sun is their desire;When everybody hopes to findThe frosty chill allayedBy garments warm, a window-blindShut, and a sweet young maid.

Then may the days of early springFor you be rich and fullWith love's proud, soft philanderingAnd many a candy-pull,With sweetest rice and sugar-cane:And may you float aboveThe absent grieving and the painOf separated love.

SPRING

A stalwart soldier comes, the spring,Who bears the bow of Love;And on that bow, the lustrous stringIs made of bees, that moveWith malice as they speed the shaftOf blossoming mango-flowerAt us, dear, who have never laughedAt love, nor scorned his power.Their blossom-burden weights the trees;The winds in fragrance move;The lakes are bright with lotuses,The women bright with love;The days are soft, the evenings clearAnd charming; everythingThat moves and lives and blossoms, dear,Is sweeter in the spring.The groves are beautifully brightFor many and many a mileWith jasmine-flowers that are as whiteAs loving woman's smile:The resolution of a saintMight well be tried by this;Far more, young hearts that fancies paintWith dreams of loving bliss.

Their blossom-burden weights the trees;The winds in fragrance move;The lakes are bright with lotuses,The women bright with love;The days are soft, the evenings clearAnd charming; everythingThat moves and lives and blossoms, dear,Is sweeter in the spring.

The groves are beautifully brightFor many and many a mileWith jasmine-flowers that are as whiteAs loving woman's smile:The resolution of a saintMight well be tried by this;Far more, young hearts that fancies paintWith dreams of loving bliss.

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Froissart's Chronicles, 57

Fronde's Short Studies, 13, 705" Henry VIII., 372-374" Edward VI., 375" Mary Tudor, 477" History of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, 583-587" Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, 666

Gait's Annals of the Parish, 427

Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty, 263

Gaskell's Cranford, 83" Charlotte Brontë, 318" Sylvia's Lovers, 524" Mary Barton, 598" Cousin Phillis, etc., 615" North and South, 680

Gatty's Parables from Nature, 158

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histories of the Kings of Britain, 577

George's Progress and Poverty, 560

Gibbon's Roman Empire, 434-436, 474-476" Autobiography, 511

Gilfillian's Literary Portraits, 348

Giraldus Cambrensis, 272

Gleig's Life of Wellington, 341" The Subaltern, 708

Goethe's Faust (Parts I. and II.), 335" Wilhelm Meister, 599, 600

Gogol's Dead Souls, 726" Taras Bulba, 740

Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 295" Poems and Plays, 415

Gorki's Through Russia, 741

Gosse's Restoration Plays, 604

Gotthelf's Ulric the Farm Servant, 228

Gray's Poems and Letters, 628

Green's Short History of the English People, 727, 728 The clothedition is in 2 vols. or 1 vol. All other editions are in 1 vol.

Grimms' Fairy Tales, 56

Grote's History of Greece, 186-197

Guest's (Lady) Mabinogion, 97

Hahnemann's The Organon of the Rational Art of Healing, 663

Hakluyt's Voyages, 264, 265, 313, 314, 338, 339, 388, 389

Hallam's Constitutional History, 621-623

Hamilton's The Federalist, 519

Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp, 681

Harvey's Circulation of Blood, 262

Hawthorne's Wonder Book, 5" The Scarlet Letter, 122" House of Seven Gables, 176" The Marble Faun, 424" Twice Told Tales, 531" Blithedale Romance, 592

Hazlitt's Shakespeare's Characters, 65" Table Talk, 321" Lectures, 411" Spirit of the Age and Lectures on English Poets, 459

Hebbel's Plays, 694

Helps' (Sir Arthur) Life of Columbus, 332

Herbert's Temple, 309

Herodotus (Rawlinson's), 405, 406

Herrick's Hesperides, 310

Hobbes' Leviathan, 691

Holinshed's Chronicle, 800

Holmes' Life of Mozart, 564

Holmes' (O.W.) Autocrat, 66" Professor, 67" Poet, 68

Homer's Iliad, 453 " Odyssey, 454

Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, 201, 202

Horace's Complete Poetical Works, 515

Houghton's Life and Letters of Keats, 801

Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays, 58

Hugo's (Victor) Les Misérables, 363, 364" Notre Dame, 422" Toilers of the Sea, 509

Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, etc., 548, 549

Hutchinson's (Col.) Memoirs, 317

Hutchinson's (W.M.L.) Muses' Pageant, 581, 606, 671

Huxley's Man's Place in Nature, 47" Select Lectures and Lay Sermons, 498

Ibsen's The Doll's House, etc., 494" Ghosts, etc., 552" Pretenders, Pillars of Society, etc., 659" Brand, 716 " Lady Inger, etc., 729" Peer Gynt, 747

Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy, 619

Ingram's Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 624

Irving's Sketch Book, 117" Conquest of Granada, 478" Life of Mahomet, 513

James' (G.P.R.) Richelieu, 357

James (Wm.), Selections from, 739

Johnson's (Dr.) Lives of the Poets, 770-771

Johnson's (R.B.) Book of English Ballads, 572

Jonson's (Ben) Plays, 489, 490

Josephus' Wars of the Jews, 712

Kalidasa's Shakuntala, 629

Keats' Poems, 101

Keble's Christian Year, 690

King's Life of Mazzini, 562

Kinglake's Eothen, 337

Kingsley's (Chas.) Westward Ho! 20" Heroes, 113 " Hypatia, 230" Water Babies and Glaucus, 277" Hereward the Wake, 296" Alton Locke, 462" Yeast, 611" Madam How and Lady Why, 777" Poems, 793

Kingsley's (Henry) Ravenshoe, 28" Geoffrey Hamlyn, 416

Kingston's Peter the Whaler, 6" Three Midshipmen, 7

Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, 8" Essays of Elia, 14" Letters, 342, 343

Lane's Modern Egyptians, 315

Langland's Piers Plowman, 571

Latimer's Sermons, 40

Law's Serious Call, 91

Layamon's (Wace and) Arthurian Chronicles, 578

Lear (and others), A Book of Nonsense, 806

Le Sage's Gil Blas, 437, 438

Leslie's Memoirs of John Constable, 563

Lever's Harry Lorrequer, 177

Lewes' Life of Goethe, 269

Lincoln's Speeches, etc., 206

Livy's History of Rome, 603, 669, 670, 749, 755, 756

Locke's Civil Government, 751

Lockhart's Life of Napoleon, 3" Life of Scott, 55 " Burns, 156

Longfellow's Poems, 382

Lönnrott's Kalevala, 259, 260

Lover's Handy Andy, 178

Lowell's Among My Books, 607

Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things, 750

Lützow's History of Bohemia, 432

Lyell's Antiquity of Man, 700

Lytton's Harold, 15" Last of the Barons, 18" Last Days of Pompeii, 80" Pilgrims of the Rhine, 390" Rienzi, 532

Macaulay's England, 34-36" Essays, 225, 226" Speeches on Politics, etc., 399" Miscellaneous Essays, 439

MacDonald's Sir Gibbie, 678" Phantastes, 732

Machiavelli's Prince, 280 " Florence, 376

Maine's Ancient Law, 734

Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, 45, 46

Malthus on the Principles of Population, 692, 693

Manning's Sir Thomas More, 19" Mary Powell, and Deborah's Diary, 324

Marcus Aurelius' Golden Book, 9

Marlowe's Plays and Poems, 383

Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy, 82" Little Savage, 159" Masterman Ready, 160" Peter Simple, 232" Children of New Forest, 247" Percival Keene, 358" Settlers in Canada, 370" King's Own, 580" Jacob Faithful, 618

Martineau's Feats on the Fjords, 429

Martinengo-Cesaresco's Folk-Lore and Other Essays, 673

Maurice's Kingdom of Christ, 146, 147

Mazzini's Duties of Man, etc., 224

Melville's Moby Dick, 179" Typee, 180" Omoo, 297

Merivale's History of Rome, 433

Mignet's French Revolution, 713

Mill's Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government, 482

Miller's Old Red Sandstone, 103

Milman's History of the Jews, 377, 378

Milton's Areopagitica and other Prose Works, 795

Milton's Poems, 384

Mommsen's History of Rome, 542-545

Montagu's (Lady) Letters, 69

Montaigne, Florio's, 440-442

More's Utopia, and Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, 461

Morier's Hajji Baba, 679

Morris' (Wm.) Early Romances, 261 " Life and Death of Jason, 575

Motley's Dutch Republic, 86-88

Mulock's John Halifax, 123

Neale's Fall of Constantinople, 655

Newcastle's (Margaret, Duchess of) Life of the First Duke ofNewcastle, etc., 722

Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, 636" On the Scope and Nature of University Education, anda Paper on Christianity and Scientific Investigation, 723

Oliphant's Salem Chapel, 244

Osborne (Dorothy), Letters of, 674

Owen's A New View of Society, etc., 799

Paine's Rights of Man, 718

Palgrave's Golden Treasury, 96

Paltock's Peter Wilkins, 676

Park (Mungo), Travels of, 205

Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, 302, 303

Parry's Letters of Dorothy Osborne, 674

Paston's Letters, 752, 753

Paton's Two Morte D'Arthur Romances, 634

Peacock's Headlong Hall, 327

Penn's The Peace of Europe, Some Fruits of Solitude, etc., 724

Pepys' Diary, 53, 54

Percy's Reliques, 148, 149

Pitt's Orations, 145

Plato's Republic, 64 " Dialogues, 456, 457

Plutarch's Lives, 407-409" Moralia, 565

Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 336" Poems and Essays, 791

Polo's (Marco) Travels, 306

Pope's Complete Poetical Works, 760

Prelude to Poetry, 789

Prescott's Conquest of Peru, 301Conquest of Mexico, 397, 398

Procter's Legends and Lyrics, 150

Rawlinson's Herodotus, 405, 406

Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, 29" Peg Woffington, 299

Reid's (Mayne) Boy Hunters of the Mississippi, 582

Reid's (Mayne) The Boy Slaves, 797

Renan's Life of Jesus, 805

Reynolds' Discourses, 118

Rhys' Fairy Gold, 157" New Golden Treasury, 695" Anthology of British Hitstorical Speeches and Orations, 714" Political Liberty, 745" Golden Treasury of Longer Poems, 746

Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 590

Richardson's Pamela, 683, 684

Roberts' (Morley) Western Avernus, 762

Robertson's Religion and Life, 37" Christian Doctrine, 38" Bible Subjects, 39

Robinson's (Wade) Sermons, 637

Roget's Thesaurus, 630, 631

Rossetti's (D.G.) Poems, 627

Rousseau's Emile, on Education, 518" Social Contract and Other Essays, 660

Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture, 207" Modern Painters, 208-212" Stones of Venice, 213-215" Unto this Last, etc., 216" Elements of Drawing, etc., 217" Pre-Raphaelitism, etc., 218" Sesame and Lilies, 219

Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust, 282" Crown of Wild Olive, and Cestus of Aglaia, 323" Time and Tide, with other Essays, 450" The Two Boyhoods, 688

Russell's Life of Gladstone, 661

Russian Short Stories, 758

Sand's (George) The Devil's Pool, and François the Waif, 534

Scheffel's Ekkehard: A Tale of the 10th Century, 529

Scott's (M.) Tom Cringle's Log, 710

Scott's (Sir W.) Ivanhoe, 16" Fortunes of Nigel, 71" Woodstock, 72" Waverley, 75" The Abbot, 124" Anne of Geierstein, 125" The Antiquary, 126" Highland Widow, and Betrothed, 127" Black Dwarf, Legend of Montrose, 123" Bride of Lammermoor, 129" Castle Dangerous, Surgeon's Daughter, 130" Robert of Paris, 131" Fair Maid of Perth, 132" Guy Mannering, 133" Heart of Midlothian, 134" Kenilworth, 135" The Monastery, 136" Old Mortality, 137" Peveril of the Peak, 138" The Pirate, 139" Quentin Durward, 140" Redgauntlet, 141" Rob Roy, 142" St. Ronan's Well, 143" The Talisman, 144" Lives of the Novelists, 331" Poems and Plays, 550, 551

Seebohm's Oxford Reformers, 665

Seeley's Ecce Homo, 305

Sewell's (Anna) Black Beauty, 748

Shakespeare's Comedies, 153" Histories, etc., 154" Tragedies, 155

Shelley's Poetical Works, 257, 258

Shelley's (Mrs.) Frankenstein, 616

Sheppard's Charles Auchester, 505

Sheridan's Plays, 95

Sismondi's Italian Republics, 250

Smeaton's Life of Shakespeare, 514

Smith's A Dictionary of Dates, 554

Smith's Wealth of Nations, 412, 413

Smith's (George) Life of Wm. Carey, 395

Smith's (Sir Wm.) Smaller Classical Dictionary, 495

Smollett's Roderick Random, 790

Sophocles, Young's, 114

Southey's Life of Nelson, 52

Speke's Source of the Nile, 50

Spence's Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology, 632

Spencer's (Herbert) Essays on Education, 504

Spenser's Faerie Queene, 443, 444

Spinoza's Ethics, etc., 481

Spyri's Heidi, 431

Stanley's Memorials of Canterbury, 89" Eastern Church, 251

Steele's The Spectator, 164-167

Sterne's Tristram Shandy, 617" Sentimental Journey and Journal to Eliza, 796

Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, 763" Master of Ballantrae and the Black Arrow, 764" Virginibus Puerisque and Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 765" An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, and Silverado Squatters, 766" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men, etc., 767" Poems, 768" In the South Seas and Island Nights'Entertainments, 769

St. Francis, The Little Flowers of, etc., 485

Stopford Brooke's Theology in the English Poets, 493

Stow's Survey of London, 589

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 371

Strickland's Queen Elizabeth, 100

Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, 379" Divine Love and Wisdom, 635" Divine Providence, 658

Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 60" Journal to Stella, 757" Tale of a Tub, etc., 347

Tacitus' Annals, 273" Agricola and Germania, 274

Taylor's Words and Places, 517

Tennyson's Poems, 44, 626

Thackeray's Esmond, 73" Vanity Fair, 298" Christmas Books, 359" Pendennis, 425, 426" Newcomes, 465, 466" The Virginians, 507, 508" English Humorists, and The Four Georges, 610" Roundabout Papers, 687

Thierry's Norman Conquest, 198, 199

Thoreau's Walden, 281

Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, 455

Tolstoy's Master and Man, and Other Parables and Tales, 469" War and Peace, 525-527" Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, 591" Anna Karenina, 612, 613

Trench's On the Study of Words and English Past and Present, 788

Trollope's Barchester Towers, 30" Framley Parsonage, 181" Golden Lion of Granpere, 761" The Warden, 182" Dr. Thorne, 360" Small House at Allington, 361" Last Chronicles of Barset, 391, 392

Trotter's The Bayard of India, 396" Hodson, of Hodson's Horse, 401" Warren Hastings, 452

Turgeniev's Virgin Soil, 528" Liza, 677" Fathers and Sons, 742

Tyndall's Glaciers of the Alps, 98

Tytler's Principles of Translation, 168

Vasari's Lives of the Painters, 784-7

Verne's (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 319" Dropped from the Clouds, 367" Abandoned, 368" The Secret of the Island, 369" Five Weeks in a Balloon and Around the World in Eighty Days, 779

Virgil's Aeneid, 161" Eclogues and Georgics, 222

Voltaire's Life of Charles XII., 270" Age of Louis XIV., 780

Wace and Layamon's Arthurian Chronicles, 578

Walpole's Letters, 775

Walton's Compleat Angler, 70

Waterton's Wanderings in South America, 772

Wesley's Journal, 105-108

White's Selborne, 48

Whitman's Leaves of Grass (I.) and Democratic Vistas, etc., 573

Whyte-Melville's Gladiators, 523

Wood's (Mrs. Henry) The Channings, 84

Woolman's Journal, etc., 402

Wordsworth's Shorter Poems, 203" Longer Poems, 311

Wright's An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 555

Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 672

Yonge's The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, 329" The Book of Golden Deeds, 330" The Heir of Redclyffe, 362" The Little Duke, 470" The Lances of Lynwood, 579

Young's (Arthur) Travels in France and Italy, 720

Young's (Sir George) Sophocles, 114

The New Testament, 93.

Ancient Hebrew Literature, 4 vols., 253-256.

English Short Stories. An Anthology, 143.

Everyman's English Dictionary, 776

NOTE.—The following numbers are at present out of print:110, 111, 118, 146, 244, 331, 390, 418, 505, 597, 641-52

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