nowledge 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._

_HUME_ _Professor Huxley._ _In the Press._

_BUNYAN_ _James Anthony Froude._

_JOHNSON_ _Leslie Stephen._ [_Ready._

_GOLDSMITH_ _William Black._ [_In the Press._

_MILTON_ _Mark Pattison._

_WORDSWORTH_ _Goldwin Smith._

_SWIFT_ _John Morley._

_BURNS_ _Principal Shairp._

_SCOTT_ _Richard H. Hutton._ [_Ready._

_SHELLEY_ _J. A. Symonds._ [_Ready._

_GIBBON_ _J. C. Morison._ [_Ready._

_BYRON_ _Professor Nichol._

_DEFOE_ _W. Minto._

_GRAY_ _John Morley._

[_OTHERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED_]

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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_.

"It must be admitted that Mr. Stephen has succeeded
admirably in his task. No writer could be more competent to
supply what is wanted in Boswell, a comprehensive sketch of
his hero's position in the literature of the eighteenth
century, and he has also shown great judgment and dexterity
in his illustration of Johnson's personal oddities and his
power as a talker.... All the traits of the personality
which Boswell has immortalized are to be found here, as well
as luminous sketches of the literature of the period, and a
solid judgment of the work that Johnson did in the
world."--_Examiner_.

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

"The tone of the volume is excellent
throughout."--_Athenaeum_ Review of "Scott."

"As a clear, thoughtful, and attractive record of the life
and works of the greatest among the world's historians, it