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LIFE OF JOHN MILTON,

NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF HIS TIME.

BY DAVID MASSON, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.

Vol. L. 8vo. With Portraits. 18s.

"Mr. Masson's Life of Milton has many sterling merits . . . his industry is immense; his zeal unflagging; his special knowledge of Milton's life and times extraordinary. . . . With a zeal and industry which we cannot sufficiently commend, he has not only availed himself of the biographical stores collected by his predecessors, but imparted to them an aspect of novelty by his skilful rearrangement."—Edinburgh Review.

BRITISH NOVELISTS & THEIR STYLES:

BEING A CRITICAL SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF BRITISH PROSE FICTION

By DAVID MASSON. Crown 8vo. cloth, 78. 6d.

"A work eminently calculated to win popularity, both by the soundness of its doctrine and the skill of its art."-The Press.

ESSAYS BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL:

CHIEFLY ON ENGLISH POETS.

By DAVID MASSON. 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d.

CONTENTS:

I. SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE. II. MILTON'S YOUTH. III. THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S. IV. DRYDEN, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION. V. DEAN SWIFT. VI. CHATTERTON: A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770. VII. WORDSWORTH. VIII. SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ON BRITISH LITERATURE. IX. THEORIES OF POETRY. X. PROSE AND VERSE: DE QUINCEY.

"Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in relation to creative literature, which are satisfactory as well as subtile—which are not only ingenious, but which possess the rarer recommendation of being usually just."-The Times.

SECOND EDITION.

GEORGE BRIMLEY'S ESSAYS.

Edited by WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.

PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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CONTENTS:

I. TENNYSON'S POEMS. II. WORDSWORTH'S POEMS. III. POETRY AND CRITICISM. IV. ANGEL IN THE HOUSE. V. CARLYLE'S LIFE OF STERLING. VI. ESMOND.

VII. MY NOVEL. VIII. BLEAK HOUSE. IX. WESTWARD HO! X. WILSON'S NOCTES. XI. COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY.

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