EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS.

EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

These Short Books are addressed to the general public with a view both
to stirring and satisfying an interest in literature and its great
topics in the minds of those who have to run as they read. An immense
class is growing up, and must every year increase, whose education will
have made them alive to the importance of the masters of our literature,
and capable of intelligent curiosity as to their performances. The
Series is intended to give the means of nourishing this curiosity, to an
extent that shall be copious enough to be profitable for knowledge and
life, and yet be brief enough to serve those whose leisure is scanty.

The following are arranged for:

SPENSER The Dean of St. Paul's. [In the Press.

HUME Professor Huxley. [Ready.

BUNYAN James Anthony Froude.

JOHNSON Leslie Stephen. [Ready.

GOLDSMITH William Black. [Ready.

MILTON Mark Pattison.

COWPER Goldwin Smith.

SWIFT John Morley.

BURNS Principal Shairp. [Ready.

SCOTT Richard H. Hutton. [Ready.

SHELLEY J. A. Symonds. [Ready.

GIBBON J. C. Morison. [Ready.

BYRON Professor Nichol.

DEFOE W. Minto. [Ready.

BURKE John Morley.

HAWTHORNE Henry James, Jnr.

CHAUCER A. W. Ward.

THACKERAY Anthony Trollope. [Ready.

ADAM SMITH Leonard H. Courtney, M.P.

BENTLEY Professor R. C. Jebb.

LANDOR Professor Sidney Colvin.

POPE Leslie Stephen.

WORDSWORTH F. W. H. Myers.

SOUTHEY Professor E. Dowden.

[OTHERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED.]

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"The new series opens well with Mr. Leslie Stephen's sketch of Dr.
Johnson. It could hardly have been done better; and it will convey to
the readers for whom it is intended a juster estimate of Johnson than
either of the two essays of Lord Macaulay."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"We have come across few writers who have had a clearer insight into
Johnson's character, or who have brought to the study of it a better
knowledge of the time in which Johnson lived and the men whom he
knew."--_Saturday Review._

"We could not wish for a more suggestive introduction to Scott and his
poems and novels."--_Exam