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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, crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.; half morocco, 10s. 6d. 'A prettier and better edition, and one more exactly suited for use as an elegant and inexpensive gift book, is not to be found.' --EXAMINER. THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the best English Hymn-writers. Selected and arranged by Roundell Palmer. Eighth Thousand, with Vignette by T. Woolner. 'Comprehending nearly all that is excellent in the hymnology of the language. ... In the details of editorial labours the most exquisite finish is manifest.' --THE FREEMAN. 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. Edited in a manner worthy of their merit and fame, as an English classic ought to be edited.' --DAILY NEWS. * * * * * * * * * 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. 'Mr. Masson's Life of Milton has many sterling merits ... his industry is immense: his zeal unflagging; his special knowledge of Milton's life 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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