Page images
PDF
EPUB

STUDENTS' BOOKS.

899

editions (price 2s. 6d. each) of the First and of the Second Books of Spenser's Faerie Queene; the Rev. R. W. Church's edition (price 2s.) of the First Book of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, and the fully annotated editions of Select Plays of Shakespeare, by Messrs. W. G. Clark and Aldis Wright, which are published at Is. and is. 6d. each, and are the best books of the kind. These editions already include The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard II. Mr. W. Aldis Wright has contributed also to the series a thoroughly good student's edition of Bacon's Advancement of Learning (price 4s. 6d.), and I know no compact body of notes upon Milton fuller or more judiciously selected than those in the Clarendon Press edition by Mr. R. C. Browne of Milton's Poems, in two volumes (price 4s. and 3s. each). The Rev. Mark Pattison contributes to the same series, in two volumes (price is. 6d. each), fully annotated editions of Pope's Essay on Man and of his Epistles and Satires.

A good annotated edition of Pope's Works (price 3s. 6d.) has been contributed by Professor A. W. Ward to the Globe Edition of English Authors. Macmillan. In the same series (also price 3s. 6d.) is our best annotated Dryden, with a memoir, revised text, and notes, by W. D. Christie, M.A. It has a carefully-corrected text; and Dr. Morris has secured the same advantage for the Spenser in the Globe series, which is not annotated, but has a glossary and an excellent introductory memoir by J. W. Hales, M.A.

Mr. Hales has also provided teachers and young students with a classbook containing about thirty of the best English poems, each complete, from Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Collins, Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, Coleridge, Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, and Shelley, under the title of Longer English Poems, with Notes, Philological and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of English (price 4s. 6d.). Macmillan. The notes are very full and good, and the book, edited by one of our most cultivated English scholars, is probably the best volume of selections ever made for the use of English schools.

Older students will find among the Publications of the Early English Text Society, which gives a most liberal return of books for the annual subscription of a guinea, many of the chief old romances, including Havelok, which may be had separately for 5s.; and Sir David Lindsay's works, The Satire of the Three Estates, forming a separate part, price 2s. 6d. Information about the work of the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society may be obtained by addressing the Hon. Sec., care of N. Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row.

The English Reprints of Mr. Edward Arber (issued by himself from 5, Queen Square, Bloomsbury) are exact reprints of valuable books, otherwise scarce, with good bibliographical and biographical introductions. The series includes Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (6d.); Sir Thomas More's Utopia, in Ralph Robynson's Translation (IS.); Latimer's Sermon on the Ploughers (6d.); Seven Sermons before Edward VI. (1s. 6d.); Ascham's Toxophilus (15.), Schoolmaster (15.); Tottel's Miscellany (2s. 6d.); Lyly's Euphues (4s.); Gascoigne's Steel Glass, and other pieces of his (1s.); Gosson's Schoole of Abuse (6d.); Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie (6d.); Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (25.); King James I.'s Essays of a Prentise in the

Divine Art of Poesie, and Counterblast to Tobacco (1s.); A Harmony of Bacon's Essays (5s.)—the texts of Bacon's editions in parallel columns, showing at a glance every successive omission, addition, and correction; The Duke of Buckingham's Rehearsal (1s.), &c. &c. Books hitherto unattainable, or reproduced only at high price for a limited number of subscribers, are here made accessible to all students at a price not above that of the best cheap literature of the day. To the single energy of Mr. Arber, who is his own publisher, students of English are indebted for this first attempt to give them free access to books in which the general reader has yet to acquire an interest.

The King and the Commons, Cavalier and Puritan Song, selected and arranged by Henry Morley (2s. 6d.). In the "Bayard Series." Sampson Low and Co. [Lyric poetry of the time of Charles I. and the Commonwealth.]

The Spectator. A new edition reproducing the Original Text, both as first issued, and as corrected by its Authors. With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Morley. (3s. 6d.) In Routledge's Standard Library.

Dr. Edwin A. Abbott, Head Master of the City of London School, has been the first to produce, besides other good aids to the study of English, a Shakespearian Grammar. This has been developed in successive editions, is well arranged, and so indexed as to be handy either for chance reference, or for use in the study of a single play. It is entitled A Shakespearian Grammar. An Attempt to Illustrate some of the Differ: ences between Elizabethan and Modern English. For the Use of Schools. Price 6s. (Macmillan.)

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Bath, Athelard of, 45

Bronte, Emily, 8gr

Baxter, Richard, 612, 613, 664, 709, 726 Brooke, Arthur, 350

Beaton, Cardinal, 277, 302, 303

Beattie, James, 862

Beaumont, Francis, 501-504
Becket, Thomas à, 54

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 888, 892
Bede, 8, 22-24, 33
Behn, Aphra, 682-684
Bell, Robert, 891, 892
Bellarmin, Cardinal, 511
Bellenden, John, 263, 264
Benedict's Rule, 36

Bentham, Jeremy, 886-888
Bentley, Richard, 773
Beowulf, 13, 14

Berkeley, George, 790
Berners, Juliana, 187

-

Lord, 250

Bestiary, Metrical, 27, 76

Beveridge, William, 666, 667

Beverley, Alfred of, 48

Bible, the, 14, 17-21, 58, 74, 75, 137,
175, 194, 233-241, 249, 250,
253-255, 343, 344, 347

Bilney, Thomas, 248

Bishops' Bible, the, 347, 359
Blackfriars Theatre, 387
Blacklock, Thomas, 874

Blackmore, Sir Richard, 765, 766, 787,

[blocks in formation]

Brooks, Charles Shirley, 893
Broome, William, 807
Brougham, Henry Lord, 888
Brown, Thomas, 703, 767
Brown, Dr. Thomas, 887
Browne, Sir Thomas, 585
-, William, 524, 525

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 833,
889-891, 893

Robert, 882, 883, 889-894
Brownists, 462. 587

Bruce, Barbour's, 145
Brunanburh, Battle of, 36, 37
Brunellus, 56

Brunne, Robert of, 92, 93, 101
Brunton, Mary, 885, 887

Brut, 49, 65, 66, 73, 74

Bryskett, Lewis, 369

Buchanan, George, 401-404

-

, Robert, 894

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke

of. 656-658, 716

-, John Sheffield, Duke of, 669-
671

Buckle, Henry Thomas, 893
Budgell, Eustace, 782

Bulwer, Lord Lytton, 888-895
Bunyan, John, 615, 616, 662-664
Burgh, Benedict, 188

Burke, Edmund, 867-869, 871, 872
Burley, Walter, 98

Burnet, Gilbert, 667, 758

Thomas, 761

Burney, Fanny (D'Arblay), 887
Burns, Robert, 873-876

Burton, John Hill, 894

[ocr errors][ocr errors]

Robert, 509

William, 508

Bury, Richard of, 93-97

Butler, Joseph, 819

, Samuel, 673-676

Byrhtnoth, the Death of, 37
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 881,
882, 886-888

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Cavendish, George, 247
Caxton, William, 195, 196
Celts, 2-11

INDEX.

Censorship of the Press, 431, 474, 581-
583; of the Stage, 828

Centlivre, Susannah, 797
Cervantes, 427, 503, 504

Chambers, Robert, 888, 889, 891-893
-, William, 889, 895

Chapman, George, 487, 488, 505, 506
Character Writing, 533, 540
Charlemagne and Alcuin, 24, 25
Romances, 61

Chatterton, Thomas, 861

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 108-112, 117-12),
146-156, 159-161, 163-170,
377, 378, 442, 764, 805, 896,
897
Chaucer's Stanza, 117, 118, 406
Cheke, Sir John, 301, 302, 307, 315
Chester Plays, 102, 103
Chesterfield, Earl of, 853, 854
Chestre, Thomas, 188

Chettle, Henry, 389, 436, 437

Chevy Chase, 208

Cheynell, Francis, 568

Child, Sir Josiah, 689

Chillingworth, William, 568

Chivalry, Romances of, 61-64, 279-

[blocks in formation]

903

Compendious Book of Godly and.
Spiritual Songs, 304

Comas, 555-557.

Confessio Amantis, 157-159

Congreve, William, 761, 762

Constance, Council of, 172, 190

Constantinople, the Fall of, 192, 193
Cook, Eliza, 890
Cooper, Thomas, 431
Corbet, Richard, 545
Corneille, 633, 634
Coryat, Thomas, 529
Cotton, Charles, 734

Sir Robert, 507, 508

Court of Love, Chaucer's, 109, 111, 112
Courts of Love, 83-85

Courtier, Castiglione's, 354
Covenanters, 564, 565
Coventry Plays, 103

Coverdale, Miles, 249, 253, 310, 314,
346

Cowley, Abraham, 548, 623, 671-673
Hannah, 885

Cowper, William, 864-866
Crabbe, George, 881, 886, 887
Craik, George Lillie, 891, 892
Cranmer, Thomas, 247-249
Cranmer's Bible, 254

Crashaw, Richard, 547, 548

Creech, Thomas, 725

Cromwell's Bible, 254

Crowne, John, 679

Crusades, the, 55, 85-87

Cuckoo and Nightingale, the, 152

Cudworth, Ralph, 665, 740

Culdees, the, 15

Cumberland, Richard, 863
Cuthbert, 17

Cymry, the, 2, 3, 5,
Cynewulf, 26, 28

D

8

[blocks in formation]
« PreviousContinue »