_A History of Eighteenth Century Literature_ (1889), and _From
Shakespeare to Pope_ (1885), by Edmund Gosse.
_English Literature in the Eighteenth Century_, by T. S. Perry (1883).
_An Illustrated History of English Literature_, by Richard Garnett and
Edmund Gosse, Volume III., _From Milton to Johnson_, by Edmund Gosse
(1903), Chapter III. A popular survey of English literary history, most
profusely illustrated with portraits and facsimiles.
_A Few Words about the Eighteenth Century_, by Frederic Harrison. (_The
Choice of Books_, 1886.)
_Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au XVIII^e Siècle_,
by A. Beljame, 1881.
_Lectures on the Comic Writers and Periodical Essayists_, by William
Hazlitt. (Delivered in 1819; best edition in the _Temple Classics_,
edited by Austin Dobson, 1900.)