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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland IV

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge and Francis W. Halsey

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THE BEST
_of the_
WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor

With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc.

In Ten Volumes

Vol. VI

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--IV

[Illustration: RUSKIN, DICKENS, THACKERAY, DARWIN]

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
Copyright, 1909, by
Funk & Wagnalls Company

The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. VI

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--IV

1801-1909

CONTENTS

VOL. VI--GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--IV

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN--(Born in 1801, died in 1890.)

I The Beginnings of Tractarianism.
(From the "Apologia pro Vita Sua")

II On His Submission to the Catholic Church.
(From the "Apologia")

III Of Athens as a True University.
(From Volume III of the "Historical Sketches")

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON--(Born in 1803, died in 1873.)

The Descent of Vesuvius on Pompeii.
(From "The Last Days of Pompeii")

LORD BEACONSFIELD--