475:16. Flints or dunghills. Journeymen taylors, who, refusing to comply with the masters terms and the regulations of the magistrate, call themselves "Flints," in contradiction to those who submit, and are in derision stiled by the first "Dungs." Chron. in Ann. Reg. 66/2. (Quoted here from Murray's New English Dictionary, Art. "Flint.") 488. Motto. So! Now 'tis ended, like an old wife's story. Webster, The White Devil, Act iii, Scene 2. 500: 2. Recur to his mind more frequently. Thackeray considered this branch of the subject in his Rebecca and Rowena. 500: 8. Death of the heroic Coeur-de-Lion. Short History, Chap. ii, Sec. ix. See Green's 500: 12. Lines composed by Johnson. From Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, 218-221. Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), after conducting great campaigns, was killed while on a military expedition of trifling consequence. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. J. G. Lockhart. A very convenient edition of this Life is published, in five volumes, by 1902. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott. R. H. Hutton. Abbotsford. Washington Irving. England under the Angevin Kings. Kate Norgate. The Mac millan Company. Harper & Bros. 2 vols. 1890. Short History of the English People. J. R. Green. Harper & Bros. English and Scottish Ballads. Francis James Child. 5 vols. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. Old English Ballads and Folk Songs. William Dallam Armes. The Macmillan Company. Pocket Classic Series. Fiction Fair or Foul. Ruskin. Nineteenth Century. June, 1880. The text of this edition of Ivanhoe is that of the 1829 edition of the Waverley Novels. ENGLISH LITERATURE BY REUBEN POST HALLECK, M.A. (Yale) HA Price, $1.25 ALLECK'S History of English Literature is a concise and interesting text-book of the history and development of English literature from the earliest times to the present. While the work is sufficiently simple to be readily comprehended by high school students, the treatment is not only philosophic, but also stimulating and suggestive, and will naturally lead to original thinking. The book is a history of literature and not a mere collection of biographical sketches. Only enough of the facts of an author's life are given to make students interested in him as a personality, and to show how his environment affected his work. The author's productions, their relation to the age, and the reasons why they hold a position in literature, receive treatment commensurate with their importance. At the end of each chapter a carefully prepared list of books is given to direct the student in studying the original works of the authors. treated. He is told not only what to read, but also where to find it at the least cost. An Introduction to the Study of American Literature BY BRANDER MATTHEWS Cloth, 12mo, 256 pages Price $1.00 A text-book of literature on an original plan, and conforming with the best methods of teaching. Admirably designed to guide, to supplement, and to stimulate the student's reading of American authors. Illustrated with a fine collection of facsimile manuscripts, portraits of authors, and views of their homes and birthplaces. Bright, clear, and fascinating, it is itself a literary work of high rank. The book consists mostly of delightfully readable and yet comprehensive little biographies of the fifteen greatest and most representative American writers. Each of the sketches contains a critical estimate of the author and his works, which is the more valuable coming, as it does, from one who is himself a master. The work is rounded out by four general chapters which take up other prominent authors and discuss the history and conditions of our literature as a whole. The book also contains a complete chronology of the best American literature from the beginning down to the present period. Each of the fifteen biographical sketches is illustrated by a fine portrait of its subject and views of his birthplace or residence and in some cases of both. They are also accompanied by each author's facsimile manuscript covering one or two pages. The book contains excellent portraits of many other authors famous in American literature. Copies sent, prepaid, on receipt of the price. NEW YORK (S. 91) CINCINNATI CHICAGO |