By CHARLES F. JOHNSON, L.H.D., Professor of English Literature,
Trinity College, Hartford. Price, $1.25
A text-book for a year's course in schools and colleges, in which
English literary history is regarded as composed of periods, each
marked by a definite tone of thought and manner of expression. The
treatment follows the divisions logically and systematically, without
any of the perplexing cross divisions so frequently made. It is based
on the historic method of study, and refers briefly to events in each
period bearing on social development, to changes in religious and
political theory, and even to advances in the industrial arts. In
addition, the book contains critiques, general surveys, summaries,
biographical sketches, bibliographies, and suggestive questions. The
examples have been chosen from poems which are generally familiar, and
of an illustrative character.