EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.
These Short Books are addressed to the general public with a view both to stirring and satisfying an interest in literature and its great topics in the minds of those who have to run as they read. An immense class is growing up, and must every year increase, whose education will have made them alive to the importance of the masters of our literature, and capable of intelligent curiosity as to their performances. The Series is intended to give the means of nourishing this curiosity, to an extent that shall be copious enough to be profitable for knowledge and life, and yet be brief enough to serve those whose leisure is scanty.
The following are arranged for:—
| SPENSER | The Dean of St. Paul's. | |
| HUME | Professor Huxley. | In the Press. |
| BUNYAN | James Anthony Froude. | |
| JOHNSON | Leslie Stephen. | [Ready. |
| GOLDSMITH | William Black. | [In the Press. |
| MILTON | Mark Pattison. | |
| WORDSWORTH | Goldwin Smith. | |
| SWIFT | John Morley. | |
| BURNS | Principal Shairp. | |
| SCOTT | Richard H. Hutton. | [Ready. |
| SHELLEY | J. A. Symonds. | [Ready. |
| GIBBON | J. C. Morison. | [Ready. |
| BYRON | Professor Nichol. | |
| DEFOE | W. Minto. | |
| GRAY | John Morley. |
[OTHERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED]