e for having searched through the wide
field of English poetry for these flowers, which youth and age can
equally enjoy, and woven them into "The Children's Garland."' --LONDON
REVIEW.
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
By JOHN BUNYAN. With Vignette by W. Holman Hunt. Large-paper copies,
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'A prettier and better edition, and one more exactly suited for use as
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THE BOOK OF PRAISE.
From the best English Hymn-writers. Selected and arranged by Roundell
Palmer. Eighth Thousand, with Vignette by T. Woolner.
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BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL.
With Notes and Glossarial Index, by W. Aldis Wright, M.A. Trinity
College, Cambridge. And a Vignette of Woolner's Statue of Lord Bacon.
Large-paper copies, crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.; half morocco, 10s. 6d.
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WORKS BY DAVID MASSON, M.A.
Professor of English Literature in University College, London.
LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
Narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary
History of his time. Vol. 1. 8vo. with Portraits, 18s.
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and times extraordinary.... With a zeal and industry which we cannot
sufficiently commend, he has not only availed himself of the
biographical stores collected by his predecessors, but imparted to them
an aspect of novelty by his skilful re-arrangement.' --EDINBURGH REVIEW.
BRITISH NOVELISTS AND THEIR STYLES;
Being a critical sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown
8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.
'A work eminently calculated to win popularity, both by the soundness of
its doctrine and the skill of its art.' --THE PRESS.
ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.
Chiefly on English Poets. By DAVID MASSON. 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d.
CONTENTS:
I. Shakespeare and Goethe.
II. Milton's Youth.
III. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's.
IV. Dryden, and the Liter
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