n deservedly forgotten long ago had there been a contemporaneous
Sherlock Holmes to ferret out his identity.

POETS. L s. d.

Thomas Otway, _Venice Preserved_: Temple
Dramatists 0 1 0

Matthew Prior, _Poems on Several Occasions_:
Cambridge English Classics 0 4 6

John Gay, _Poems_: Muses' Library
(2 vols.) 0 2 0

ALEXANDER POPE, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 0

Isaac Watts, _Hymns_: Any hymn-book 0 1 0

James Thomson, _The Seasons_: Muses'
Library 0 1 0

Charles Wesley, _Hymns_: Any hymn-book 0 1 0

THOMAS GRAY, Samuel Johnson, William
Collins, _Poems_: Muses' Library 0 1 0

James Macpherson (Ossian), _Poems_:
Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

THOMAS CHATTERTON, _Poems_: Muses'
Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

WILLIAM COWPER, _Poems_: Canterbury
Poets 0 1 0

WILLIAM COWPER, _Letters_: World's
Classics 0 1 0

George Crabbe, _Poems_: Methuen's Little
Library 0 1 6

WILLIAM BLAKE, _Poems_: Muses' Library 0 1 0

William Lisle Bowles, Hartley Coleridge,
_Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

ROBERT BURNS, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 6
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L1 7 0

SUMMARY OF THE PERIOD.

39 prose writers in 60 volumes, costing L5 1 0
18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0
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57 78 L6 8 0

CHAPTER XIII

AN ENGLISH LIBRARY: PERIOD III

The catalogue of necessary authors of this third and last period being
so long, it is convenient to divide the prose writers into Imaginative
and Non-imaginative.

In the latter half of the period the question of copyright affects our
scheme to a certain extent, because it affects prices. Fortunately
it is the fact that no single book of recognised first-rate general
importance is conspicuously d