Second and Cheap Edition, with Twelve Portraits.
Small crown 8vo., 472 pp., cloth, price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s.
Landmarks of English Literature.
By Henry J. Nicoll, Author of “Great Movements,” etc.
Contents:
| INTRODUCTION: Explains the Plan of the Book, and gives some Hints on the Study of Literature. | JOHNSON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. |
| THE DAWN OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. | THE NEW ERA IN POETRY. |
| THE ELIZABETHAN ERA. | SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE PROSE LITERATURE OF THE EARLY PART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. |
| THE SUCCESSORS OF THE ELIZABETHANS. | OUR OWN TIMES. |
| THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION. | PERIODICALS, REVIEWS, AND ENCYCLOPÆDIAS. |
| THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE’S TIME. | |
| OUR FIRST GREAT NOVELISTS. |
“We can warmly commend this excellent manual. Mr. Nicoll is a fair and sensible critic himself, and knows how to use with skill and judgment the opinions of other critics. His book has many competitors to contend with, but will be found to hold its own with the best of them.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“Mr. Nicoll’s facts are commendably accurate, and his style is perfectly devoid of pretentiousness, tawdriness, and mannerism, for which relief in the present day an author always deserves much thanks from his critics.”—Saturday Review.