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Camelot Series-continued.

Reynolds's Discourses.
Zimmern.

With Introduction by Helen

"Miss Helen Zimmern edits the Discourses with a sensible and quite acceptable Introduction, in which the present value to artists of Reynolds' theory of art is fairly recognised."—Saturday Review. Sartor Resartus. By Thomas Carlyle. With Introduction by Ernest Rhys.

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By far the best of the cheap editions now before the public.”— Newcastle Leader.

Seneca, Selections from. With Introduction by Walter

Clode.

[May Volume.

Shelley's Essays and Letters. Edited, with Introductory
Note, by Ernest Rhys.

"One of the most interesting of the set. Mr. Rhys has done
his work with care and intelligence."-The Graphic.
Specimen Days in America. By Walt Whitman. Newly
revised by the Author, with fresh Preface and additional Note.
"We can praise Mr. Whitman when he writes prose. He did
good service in the hospitals of the North, and he records his
experience, very strange and startling experience, too."-Spectator.
Swift's Prose Writings. Chosen and arranged by W. Lewin.

"There is a serviceable introduction by Mr. Waiter Lewin, who may be congratulated on the felicity of his selection and arrangement of the pieces printed. The book is a wonderful shilling's-worth."Scotsman.

The Lover, and other Papers of Steele and Addison.
Edited by Walter Lewin.

"A book which every lover of first-class literature will welcome."Sheffield Independent.

Thoreau's Walden.

Dircks.

With Introductory Note by Will H.

"An introductory note by Mr. Will H. Dircks judiciously prepares the mind of the reader for the enjoyment of the American transcendentalist."-London Daily Chronicle.

Volsunga Saga: the Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs.
Translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and
William Morris. With Introduction and Notes by H.
Halliday Sparling.

"This unpretentious little volume is intended for the lover of poetry and nature rather than the student, that he may enjoy and wonder at this great work."-Cambridge Chronicle.

White's Natural History of Selborne. With a Naturalist's
Calendar and additional Observations. With a Preface by
Richard Jefferies.

"The last published writing of Richard Jefferies is, we believe, the preface which he contributed to the excellent edition of White's Selborne in the "Camelot Series."-Pall Mall Gazette.

Canterbury Poets, The. Cloth, Red Edges,

Is. ; Cloth, Uncut Edges, Is.; Red Roan, Gilt Edges, 2s. 6d. Australian Ballads and Rhymes. Poems inspired by Life and Scenery in Australia and New Zealand. Selected and edited by Douglas B. W. Sladen, B.A., Oxon.

"Mr. Douglas Sladen's pretty little volume is doubly welcome, not only as the first poetical anthology of the "youngest born of Britain's great dominions," but for its pleasant introduction of the singers whose songs have made it up, and for a valuable study of Henry Kendall as a bush poet."-Academy.

Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc. Selected, with chapter on the various forms, by J. Gleeson White.

"Mr. Gleeson White's collection of Ballades and Rondeaus is a really delightful little book.-Pall Mall Gazette.

Ben Jonson, Dramatic Works and Lyrics of. Selected, with Essay, Biographical and Critical, by John Addington Symonds.

"A selection discreetly compounded and introduced by an admirable biographical and critical preface.”—Saturday Review.

Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays. Selected, with an Introduction, by John S. Fletcher.

"Anyone who wishes to get some acquaintance of 'the sweets' of these dramatists without 'the bitters,' should give this little volume a place on their book-shelves.-Oxford Review.

Blake, Poems and Specimens from the Prose Writings of. Edited, with Introductory Notice, by Joseph Skipsey.

"It will delight every lover of Blake. The introductory sketch is one of the best we have read on the subject.-Sheffield Independent. Border Ballads. Selected and Edited by Graham R. Tomson. [April Volume.

Bowles, Lamb, and Hartley Coleridge. Selected, with Introduction, by William Tirebuck.

"The work has been well and sensibly done, and the little volume ought to be welcomed as giving us the works of three poets too little known nowadays; the preface is extremely good.”—The Graphic.

Burns.-Poems.
Skipsey.

With Biographical Sketch by Joseph

Burns.-Songs. With Critical Estimate by Joseph Skipsey.

"The essays are valuable additions to Burns literature, and should be read by all who are admirers of the poet, and—for that matter-by all who are not."—Derby Gazette.

Canterbury Poets-continued.

Byron. Vol. I.-Childe Harold and Don Juan. Selected, with Introduction, by Mathilde Blind.

Byron. Vol II.-Miscellaneous.

"A felicitous selection, prefaced by an appreciative biography of the poet."-Oxford Times.

Campbell. With Introductory Notice by John Hogben.

"The introductory essay is all that such a notice should be. The little volume is a good one, and handy for the pocket.”—The Graphic. Chatterton. With Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical, by John Richmond.

"The editor has done his work with care and skill, and the biographical and critical notice with which the volume opens is a model of what such articles should be."-Glasgow Herald.

Children of the Poets. An Anthology from English and
American Writers of Three Centuries. Compiled by Eric S.
Robertson.

"A most delightful volume, the best of the series, which is saying a great deal."

Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and
Holy Days throughout the Year, By Rev. John Keble,
M.A.

Coleridge. With Introduction by Joseph Skipsey.

"The volume is edited with diligent care, and in the arrangement of the poems capital judgment and good taste are displayed." To-day.

Cowper. Selected, with Prefatory Notice, by Eva Hope.
"Miss Hope has done her work well and sympathetically, and the
collection is welcome."-Graphic.

Dobell, Sydney. Selected, with Introductory Memoir, by
Mrs. Dobell.

"The exuberant fancy, grace, and passion of the poet are well illustrated by the selections."-Leeds Mercury.

Days of the Year. A Poetic Calendar from the Works of
Alfred Austin, Selected by A. S. With Introduction" by
William Sharp.

"To all who care for sweet thoughts sweetly expressed; to all who find melody and harmony in Nature, this daily remembrancer of the things that they delight in cannot fail to be a welcome companion."Standard.

Canterbury Poets-continued.

Early English Poetry. Selected, with Critical Introduction and Notes, by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon.

"The work has been well done, and should be in the hands of all students of early English poetry."

Emerson. With Prefatory Notice by Walter Lewin.

"Readers may rest assured that no better, handier, or cheaper edition of the great essayist's poems-poems which, under all their rugged irregularities of form, are still brimful of deep and sincere thought-will ever likely come into market than that now lying before us in 'The Canterbury Poets.'"-Dundee Advertiser.

Goldsmith, The Poems and Plays of. With Introduction by
William Tirebuck.

"The introduction is a skilful piece of compressed biography, succinct, graphic, and faithful."-Yorkshire Post.

Heine, Heinrich.

Kroeker.

Selected, with Introduction, by Mrs.

"Mrs. Freiligrath-Kroeker may be congratulated on her successful achievement, and we can heartily recommend her selections from Heine's poems to every English household where poetry is cherished." -Literary World.

Herbert's Poems, to which are added Selections from his

Prose, and Walton's Life. With Introduction by Ernest Rhys. "The volume is altogether a delightful, comprehensive, and important one, and Mr. Scott has done well to issue it in his very valuable, neat, and cheap series."-Brechin Advertiser.

Herrick-Hesperides. With Notes by Herbert P. Horne.
"A pretty edition, with some good Notes."-Athenæum.
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd. Selected. Edited,
with Introduction, by the Poet's Daughter, Mrs. Garden.
"The reader may be assured that he has here the finest and most
characteristic work of James Hogg."-Oxford Times.

Hugo, Victor. Translated by Dean Carrington, with Intro-
duction by Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco.

"The translation is good, and I am reading the poems with much interest. I have no copy of them in the original, but there is a source of much enjoyment in the translation."-JOHN Bright.

Irish Minstrelsy. Being a selection of Irish Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads; Original and Translated. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by H. Halliday Sparling.

"It is such an anthology of Irish poetry up to the most recent date as will be a revelation of hitherto hidden wealth to most readers, and to experts will seem a triumph of competent editing." Truth.

Canterbury Poets-continued.

Jacobite Songs and Ballads. Selected, with Notes, and
Introduction, by G. S. Macquoid.

"The selection is excellent, and the accompanying 'notes'
exactly what is wanted in such a book."-Arbroath Herald.
Keats. With Introductory Sketch, by John Hogben.

"It is, like its fellows, a pleasant and convenient little volume; and Mr. Hogben's introductory sketch is fairly satisfactory."-The Spectator.

Longfellow. Selected, with Introduction, by Eva Hope.

"We have not seen yet so good a life of the poet as that which is included in this volume."-Sunday School Times.

Love Letters of a Violinist, and other Poems. By Eric
Mackay.

"He will probably be numbered with the choice few whose names are destined to live by the side of poets such as Keats, whom, as far as careful work, delicate feeling, and fiery tenderness go, he greatly resembles."-Glasgow Herald.

Marlowe. Selections from the Dramatic Works of. With
Introduction by Percy E. Pinkerton.

"It gives us all that is best and most worthy of preservation in
the poet's works in a compact and handy form."-Literary World.
Marston, Philip Bourke.-Song-Tide: Poems and Lyrics of
Love's Joy and Sorrow.
[May Volume.

Milton's Paradise Lost. By J. Bradshaw, M.A., LL.D.

"All who desire to have the masterpiece of the great Puritan poet in a convenient and easily accessible form could not do better than become possessed of this issue."-Dundee Advertiser.

Moore, Poems of. Selected, with Introduction, by John
Dorrian.

"The selections are judiciously made, and are conveniently grouped in appropriate classes; and the volume as a whole contains most of what the general reader would care to see of Moore."Aberdeen Free Press.

Poe. Poems, with Selections from the Prose. With
Biographical Sketch, by Joseph Skipsey.

"A choice edition, with a very good preface."

Pope. With Introductory Sketch by John Hogben.

"Mr. Hogben's selection and sketch are alike to be commended." Praed. With Introductory Notice by Frederick Cooper.

"The first to give in convenient and cheap form a substantive selec. tion of the work of one of the most charming of English verse-writers. His introduction is good."-Saturday Review.

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