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Brimley. ESSAYS BY THE LATE GEORGE BRIMLEY, M. A. Edited by the Rev. W. G. CLARK, M. A. With Portrait. Cheaper Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

Essays on literary topics, such as Tennyson's "Poems," Carlyle's Life of Stirling,' "Bleak House," &c., reprinted from Fraser, the Spectator, and like periodicals.

Broome.-THE STRANGER OF SERIPHOS.

A Dramatic

Poem. By FREDERICK NAPIER BROOME. Fcap. 8vo.

Founded on the Greek legend of Danae and Perseus.

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"Grace and beauty of expression are Mr. Broome's characteristics; and these qualities are displayed in many passages.”—ATHENÆUM.

Church (A. J.).-HORE TENNYSONIANE, Sive Ecloga e Tennysono Latine redditæ. Cura A. J. CHURCH, A.M. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.

Latin versions of Selections from Tennyson. Among the authors are the Editor, the late Professor Conington, Professor Seeley, Dr. Hessey, Mr. Kebbel, and other gentlemen.

Clough (Arthur Hugh).-THE POEMS AND PROSE

With a

REMAINS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
Selection from his Letters and a Memoir. Edited by his Wife.
With Portrait. Two vols. crown 8vo. 21S. Or Poems sepa-
rately, as below.

The late Professor Clough is well known as a graceful, tender poet, and as the scholarly translator of Plutarch. The letters possess high interest, not biographical only, but literary-discussing, as they do, the most important questions of the time, always in a genial spirit. The "Remains" include papers on "Retrenchment at Oxford;" on Professor F. W. Newman's book "The Soul;" on Wordsworth; on the Formation of Classical English; on some Modern Poems (Matthew Arnold and the late Alexander Smith), &c. &c.

THE POEMS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. With a Memoir by F. T. PALGRAVE. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.

POETRY & BELLES LETTRES.

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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 of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough."-FRASER'S MAGAZINE.

Dante.-DANTE'S COMEDY, THE HELL.

W. M. ROSSETTI.

Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 5s.

Translated by

"The aim of this translation of Dante may be summed up in one word -Literality. . . . To follow Dante sentence for sentence, line for line, word for word neither more nor less-has been my strenuous endeavour.” -AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

De Vere.-THE INFANT BRIDAL, and other Poems.
AUBREY DE VERE. Fcap. 8vo.
7s. 6d.

By

"Mr. De Vere has taken his place among the poets of the day. Pure and tender feeling, and that polished restraint of style which is called classical, are the charms of the volume."-SPECTATOR.

Doyle (Sir F. H.).-Works by Sir FRANCIS HAstings Doyle, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford :—

THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 75.

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"Good wine needs no bush, nor good verse a preface; and Sir Francis Doyle's verses run bright and clear, and smack of a classic vintage. His chief characteristic, as it is his greatest charm, is the simple manliness which gives force to all he writes. It is a characteristic in these days rare enough."-EXAMINER.

LECTURES ON POETRY, delivered before the University of Oxford in 1868. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

THREE LECTURES :—(1) Inaugural; (2) Provincial Poetry; (3) Dr Newman's "Dream of Gerontius."

"Full of thoughtful discrimination and fine insight: the lecture on 'Provincial Poetry' seems to us singularly true, eloquent, and instructive.” -SPECTATOR.

Evans.- BROTHER

FABIAN'S MANUSCRIPT, AND OTHER POEMS. By SEBASTIAN EVANS. Fcap. 8vo. cloth.

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"In this volume we have full assurance that he has the vision and the faculty divine.'. Clever and full of kindly humour."—GLOBE.

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Furnivall.-LE MORTE D'ARTHUR. Edited from the Harleian M.S. 2252, in the British Museum. By F. J. FURNIVALL, M.A. With Essay by the late HERBERT COLERIDGE. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Looking to the interest shown by so many thousands in Mr. Tennyson's Arthurian poems, the editor and publishers have thought that the old version would possess considerable interest. It is a reprint of the celebrated Harleian copy; and is accompanied by index and glossary.

Garnett.-IDYLLS AND EPIGRAMS. Chiefly from the Greek Anthology. By RICHARD GARNETT. Fcap. 8vo.

2s. 6d. "A charming little book. For English readers, Mr. Garnett's translalations will open a new world of thought."-WESTminster Review.

GUESSES AT TRUTH. By Two BROTHERS. With Vignette,

Title, and Frontispiece. New Edition, with Memoir. Fcap. 8vo. 65.

"The following year was memorable for the commencement of the 'Guesses at Truth.' He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness which is the charm of the 'Pensées' of Pascal, and the Caractères' of La Bruyère-agreed to utter themselves in this form, and the book appeared, anonymously, in two volumes, in 1827."-MEMOIR.

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Hamerton.-A PAINTER'S CAMP. By PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON. Second Edition, revised. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.

The

BOOK I. In England; Book II. In Scotland; Book III. In France. This is the story of an Artist's encampments and adventures. headings of a few chapters may serve to convey a notion of the character of the book: A Walk on the Lancashire Moors; the Author his own Housekeeper and Cook; Tents and Boats for the Highlands; The Author encamps on an uninhabited Island; A Lake Voyage; A Gipsy Journey to Glen Coe; Concerning Moonlight and Old Castles; A little French City; A Farm in the Autunois, &c. &c.

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POETRY & BELLES LETTRES.

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"His pages sparkle with happy turns of expression, not a few well-told anecdotes, and many observations which are the fruit of attentive study and wise reflection on the complicated phenomena of human life, as well as of unconscious nature."-WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

ETCHING AND ETCHERS. A Treatise Critical and Practical. By P. G. HAMERTON. With Original Plates by REMBRANDT, CALLOT, DUJARDIN, PAUL POTTER, &c.

Royal 8vo. Half

"It is a work of which author, printer, and publisher may alike feel proud. It is a work, too, of which none but a genuine artist could by possibility have been the author."-Saturday Review.

Herschel.-THE ILIAD OF HOMER. Translated into English Hexameters. By Sir JOHN HERSCHEL, Bart. 8vo. 18s.

A version of the Iliad in English Hexameters. The question of Homeric translation is fully discussed in the Preface.

"It is admirable, not only for many intrinsic merits, but as a grea man's tribute to Genius."-ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.

HIATUS: the Void in Modern Education. Its Cause and Antidote. By OUTIS. 8vo. 8s. 6d.

The main object of this Essay is to point out how the emotional element which underlies the Fine Arts is disregarded and undeveloped at this time so far as (despite a pretence at filling it up) to constitute an Educational Hiatus.

HYMNI ECCLESIÆ. See "THEOLOGICAL SECTION."

Kennedy.- LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. Collected and Narrated by PATRICK KENNEDY. Crown 8vo. With Two Illustrations. 7s. 6d.

"A very admirable popular selection of the Irish fairy stories and legends, in which those who are familiar with Mr. Croker's, and other selections of the same kind, will find much that is fresh, and full of the peculiar vivacity and humour, and sometimes even of the ideal beauty, of the true Celtic Legend."-Spectator.

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Kingsley (Canon).—See also “HISTORIC SECTION,"

"WORKS

OF FICTION," and "PHILOSOPHY;" also "JUVENILE Books," and "THEOLOGY."

THE SAINTS' TRAGEDY: or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary. By the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY. With a Preface by the Rev. F. D. MAURICE. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 55. ANDROMEDA, AND OTHER POEMS. Third Edition. Fcap.

8vo. 5s.

PHAETHON; or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 25.

Kingsley (Henry).-See "WORKS OF FICTION."

Lowell (Professor).-AMONG MY BOOKS.

Six Essays.

By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, M. A., Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Six Essays: Dryden; Witchcraft; Shakespeare Once More; New England Two Centuries ago; Lessing; Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.

UNDER THE WILLOWS, AND OTHER POEMS. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.

"Under the Willows is one of the most admirable bits of idyllic work, short as it is, or perhaps because it is short, that have been done in our gencration."-SATURDAY REVIEW.

Masson (Professor).—ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL. Chiefly on the British Poets. By DAVID MASSON, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh. 8vo. 12s. 6d.

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Distinguished by a remarkable power of analysis, a clear statement of the actual facts on which speculation is based, and an appropriate beauty of Language. These essays should be popular with serious men. ATHENEUM.

BRITISH NOVELISTS AND THEIR STYLES. Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

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Valuable for its lucid analysis of fundamental principles, its breadth of view, and sustained animation of style."-SPECTATOR.