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SHAKESPEARE. New Editions. Edited by SAMUEL THURBER, Jr. Merchant of Venice. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. (At Press.)

Each volume is illustrated by handsome half-tones, showing the
principal characters and incidents, and contains very full notes, a
list of familiar quotations, together with a study of the structural
elements of the play, a discussion of the sources and historical set-
ting, and a list of topics for written compositions.

SHAKESPEARE. Edited by SAMUEL THurber.
As You Like It. Macbeth. The Tempest.

Hamlet (with Pearson's Questions on Hamlet).

SPENCER. The Philosophy of Style

With Wright's Essay on Style. Edited by F. N. SCOTT.
The Introduction is biographical and critical.

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This edition has a short introduction and a life of Stevenson. Very few notes are provided. A complete glossary explains all the unusual terms used in the story.

The book contains illustrations from original drawings and a map.

An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey

Edited by JAMES CLOYD BOWMAN.

This edition contains not only maps of these interesting journeys but also many half-tone illustrations. The Introduction contains a life of Stevensor and a bibliography.

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Edited by GEORGE A. WATROUS. (In Three Narrative Poems.

Idylls of the King

Edited by H. W. BOYNTON.

This edition contains The Coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Holy Grail, The Passing of Arthur. Thus it has all the Selections of the College Entrance Requirements both for reading and for study. There is a portrait of the author for a frontispiece.

WEBSTER. Reply to Hayne

Edited by C. B. BRADLEY.

This edition contains a brief life of Webster and an account of the circumstances under which the speech was delivered. There is a portrait of Webster.

Four English Poems

Edited by L. D. SYLE.

The Rape of the Lock, John Gilpin's Ride, The Prisoner of Chillon, and Rugby Chapel. This edition has an introduction, notes, and a portrait of Lord Byron.

Selected Poems from Pope, Gray, and Goldsmith

Edited by GEORGE A. WATROUS.

The poems included are Pope's Essay on Criticism, Gray's Elegy
and Progress of Poesy, and Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted
Village. The book has an introduction, notes, and a portrait of
Pope.

Three Narrative Poems

Edited by GEORGE A. WATROUS.

This volume contains The Ancient Mariner, Sohrab and Rustum, and Enoch Arden. A map makes plain the geography of Sohrab and Rustum.

Two of the selections in this book - The Ancient Mariner and

Sohrab and Rustum - appear in the College Entrance Requirements in English. There is a portrait of Coleridge.

The Short-Story

Edited by W. PATTERSON ATKINSON.

The selections are Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle, Edgar
Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and The Purloined Letter, Nathaniel
Hawthorne's Howe's Masquerade and The Birthmark, Francis
Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Robert Louis Stevenson's
The Sire de Maletroit's Door and Markheim, Rudyard Kipling's
Wee Willie Winkie.

In addition to the well-chosen selection of stories, the book contains
a practical Introduction, setting forth the development of the short-
story in its various forms. There is also a study of the short-story
as an example of narrative writing, which makes the book of
practical use to classes in English composition. Helpful notes on
each of the stories are included. The Short-Story is illustrated
with portraits of the authors represented.

ENGLISH

American Literature

By Professor ROY BENNETT PACE, of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 12mo, cloth, 289 pages.

THIS

HIS book is the outcome of personal experience with the problem of teaching literature to young people.

No writer is treated unless the student may reasonably be expected to read some of his work. The author avoids the long list of names and dates common to manuals of literature.

No effort has been made to treat very recent writers. It is felt that judgment cannot yet be passed on their work and that the pupil will already have become familiar with many of them through the magazines.

The author nowhere sacrifices simplicity in an effort at literary effect. Too often in text-books in literature, a good chapter is spoiled by a few flights of fancy or a clever analogy quite beyond the student's observation and experience.

Southern literature is given more space than is usual in manuals of this sort.

No pains have been spared to equip the book with useful and practical illustrations. Homes and haunts of authors, manuscripts and title-pages, portraits and monuments, are the subjects of attractive pictures.

Readings in American Literature

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By Professor ROY BENNETT PACE, of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 12mo, cloth, 373 pages.

LTHOUGH this book is intended as a companion to the author's own American Literature, it will be found useful in connection with any of the other text-books in the subject.

The best-known authors in American literature are represented, and an effort has been made to give some of the best and most distinctive work of each.

A feature of the Readings is the prominence given to early American writers. This literature is quaint and interesting and at the same time affords an excellent model of good English.

ENGLISH

Orations and Arguments

Edited by C. B. BRADLEY, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of
California. 12mo, cloth, 385 pages.

The following speeches are contained in the book:

BURKE:

On Conciliation with the Colonies, and Speech before the Flectors at Bristol.

CHATHAM:

On American Affairs.

ERSKINE:

In the Stockdale Case.

LINCOLN:

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The Gettysburg Address.

WEBSTER:

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N making this selection, the test applied to each speech was that it should be in itself memorable, attaining its distinction through the essential qualities of nobility and force of ideas, and that it should be, in topic, so related to the great thoughts, memories, or problems of our own time as to have for us still an inherent and vital interest.

The Notes aim to furnish the reader with whatever help is necessary to the proper appreciation of the speeches; to avoid bewildering him with mere subtleties and display of erudition; and to encourage in him habits of self-help and familiarity with sources of information.

Note-taking

By S. S. SEWARD, Jr., Assistant Professor of English in the Leland
Stanford Junior University. 12mo, flexible cloth, 91 pages.

THIS

HIS book is the result of a number of years' experience in training students to take notes intelligently and systematically, and has been written with the conviction that a better standard of note-taking will add much to the effectiveness of the students' work.

It contains chapters on The Aim in Note-taking, How to Condense Notes, How to Organize Notes, Special Problems in Notetaking, together with exercises for practice and many examples.

ENGLISH

A Text-Book for the Study of Poetry

By Rev. F. M. CONNELL, S.J., of the Novitiate of St. Andrew-on-
Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12mo, cloth, 223 pages.

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HE purpose of this book is to set forth the fundamental principles of criticism from which can be formed an estimate of acknowledged poetry. It is for use in advanced classes.

The book is divided into three parts. The first is devoted to the Nature of Poetry, and treats of Emotion, Imagination, Thought, and Expression. The second part, under Species of Poetry, takes up the Narrative, Dramatic, and Lyric Poetry. Part three is on Versification, and contains one chapter on Metre, and one on Verse and Melody. At the end of the volume are added Topics for the Study of Lyric Poems, Practical Lessons on Poetic Diction, and Suggestions for Verse-Writing.

Principles of Success in Literature

By GEORGE HENRY LEWES. Edited with Introduction and Notes by
Professor FRED N. SCOTT. 12mo, cloth, 163 pages.

HE object of reprinting this admirable little treatise on litera

criticism. Scarcely any other work will be found so thoroughly sound in principles, and so suggestive and inspiring.

The value of the present edition is greatly increased by the excellent introduction by Professor Scott, and by a full index.

Spencer's Philosophy of Style and Wright's Essay on Style

Edited by FRED N. SCOTT, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of
Michigan. 12mo, cloth, 92 pages.

THE plan has been a and

`HE plan has been followed of providing a biographical and

belief that the Philosophy of Style can best be understood in connection with the Spencerian philosophy as a whole, the Introduction has been made largely bibliographical.

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