Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions To Each Period.

EDITED BY
HENRY CRAIK, LL.D.

In Five Volumes. 12mo.

VolumeI.From the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century.
VolumeII.The Sixteenth Century to the Restoration.
VolumeIII.The Seventeenth Century.
VolumeIV.The Eighteenth Century.
VolumeV.Nineteenth Century from Sir Walter Scott to Robert Louis Stevenson.

Cabinet Edition. Five Volumes in Box, $7.50.

Student’s Edition. Each Volume sold separately. $1.10 per vol.

COMMENTS.

“If prose literature can ever be successfully studied by means of short extracts, it will be possible to conduct such a study with the aid of this book. As a companion book of Ward’s ‘English Poets’ it is very interesting and satisfactory. In the Department of Rhetoric, this book will certainly be of greater value than any other work of the kind yet published.”—Prof. H. H. Neill, Amherst College.

“Mr. Craik and his coadjutors do their work admirably. Their remarks are appropriate, their selection of extracts is felicitous. We thank them for not a few happy hours.”—Literary World.

“The extracts are carefully chosen and edited, and a brief sketch of each writer is given. These sketches are written by men who edit the different sections, and as these men are selected from the foremost of English critics, the result is that the books contain a valuable set of brief essays from able and distinguished pens. George Saintsbury, Alfred Ainger, Edmund Gosse, Norman Moore, and others besides the editor himself have contributed, and the book would have been valuable did it contain nothing but these introductory notices. The conclusions of the editors of the different authors who have summed up the characteristics of the separate men represented in the previous volume, have done their work so well, that the student is likely in the end to have a rather better idea of the writers than he would gather from his unaided study of the original and complete works of these old writers.”—Boston Courier.