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CONTENTS:--_Preface; The Function of Criticism at the present time;
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Foubert; Spinoza and the Bible; Marcus Aurelius._
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6_s._
"_Full of life and genius._"--COURT CIRCULAR.
Besant.--STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY. By WALTER BESANT,
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_A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature
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to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French
language, and prepared the way for Corneille and for Racine. The
present work aims to afford information and direction touching the
early efforts of France in poetical literature._
"_In one moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to
the very best, if not to all of the early French poets._"--ATHENÆUM.
Bradshaw.--AN ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE STATE OF CHAUCER'S WORKS, AS
THEY WERE LEFT AT HIS DEATH. With some Notes of their Subsequent
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Library, Cambridge. _In the Press._
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Broome.--THE STRANGER OF SERIPHOS. A Dramatic Poem. By FREDERICK NAPIER
BROOME. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._
_Founded on the Greek legend of Danae and Perseus._
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_The late Professor Clough is well known as a graceful, tender poet,
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interest, not biographical only, but literary--discussing, as they do,
the most important questions of the time, always in a genial spirit.
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Classical English; on some Modern Poems (Matthew Arnold and the late
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"_From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still
conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not know
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THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 7_s._
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and the 'Caractères' of La Bruyère--agreed to utter themselves in
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HYMNI ECCLESIÆ. _See_ "THEOLOGICAL SECTION."
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THE SAINTS' TRAGEDY: or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary. By the
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ANDROMEDA, AND OTHER POEMS. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._
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works._"--TIMES.
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5_s._
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THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.
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Pember (E.H.).--THE TRAGEDY OF LESBOS. A Dramatic Poem. By E.H. PEMBER.
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_Founded upon the story of Sappho._
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GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by D.G. ROSSETTI.
Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._
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too far, nor keeps those wonders in the merely fabulous and capricious
stage. In fact she has produced a true children's poem, which is far
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delightful to all._"--SPECTATOR.
THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by D.G.
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of the best and happiest minds.... They are like the piping of
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which a child amuses itself when it forgets that anybody is
listening._"--SATURDAY REVIEW.
Rossetti (W.M.).--DANTE'S HELL. _See_ "DANTE."
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EDWIN OF DEIRA. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._
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CALDERON'S LIFE'S A DREAM: The Great Theatre of the World. With an
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HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by
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6_d._
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selections from living authors. The Editor has aimed to produce a book
"which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely necessary,
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"_The Archbishop has conferred in this delightful volume an
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SACRED LATIN POETRY, Chiefly Lyrical. Selected and arranged for Use.
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fear that snares are being laid for them, to entangle them unawares in
admiration for ought which is inconsistent with their faith and fealty
to their own spiritual mother._"--PREFACE.
Turner.--SONNETS. By the Rev. CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER. Dedicated to his
brother, the Poet Laureate. Fcap. 8vo. 4_s._ 6_d._
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delicate perception of rhythmical movement, and thus Mr. Turner has
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brother.... He knows the_
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imagination._"--ATHENÆUM.
SMALL TABLEAUX. Fcap. 8vo. 4_s._ 6_d._
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years," says her biographer, Visconti, "there has been no other
Italian lady who can be compared to her."_
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Webster.--Works by AUGUSTA WEBSTER:--
"_If Mrs. Webster only remains true to herself, she will
assuredly take a higher rank as a poet than any woman has yet
done._"--WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
DRAMATIC STUDIES. Extra fcap. 8vo. 5_s._
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MEDEA OF EURIPIDES. Literally translated into English Verse. Extra
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ARTHUR HUGHES. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._
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feeling which is poetic genius. No man can read this poem without
being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to
speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of
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