In Preparation
Vol. II. Part 2. From the Civil War to Pope.
“Mr. Jusserand’s qualifications for the task which he has undertaken are of a high order. There are few foreigners, and certainly very few Frenchmen, who have so intimate a knowledge of English life; he has already gained great distinction as an original investigator in more than one period of English literary history; and although his point of view in the present work is unmistakably that of a Frenchman, he shows a degree of sympathetic insight which is seldom met with in foreign critics of literature.”—London Athenæum.
A History of Comparative Literature
By Frédérick Loliée
Authorized Translation by M. A. Power, M.D. 8o. Net, $1.75.
A brief but luminous survey of an immense subject, tracing out clearly the origin, the progress, and the interdependence of the world’s literary developments. M. Loliée steers his way with consummate skill between generalization and detail, and his critical summaries are as suggestive as they are succinct.
Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages
A Study of the Conditions of the Production and Distribution of
Literature from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the
Close of the Seventeenth Century
By GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM, Litt.D.
In two volumes, 8vo, cloth extra (sold separately), each $2.50
Vol. I. 476–1600 Vol. II. 1500–1709
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