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ESSRS METHUEN are publishing a

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series of small books under the above title, containing some of the famous works in English and other literatures, in the domains of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres. The series also contains volumes of selections in prose and

verse.

The books are edited with the most sympathetic and scholarly care. Each one contains an introduction which gives (1) a short biography of the author; (2) a critical estimate of the book. Where they are necessary, short notes are added at the foot of the page.

Each volume has a photogravure frontispiece, and the books are produced with great care.

The following works are ready :

Vanity Fair. By W. M. THACKERAY. With an Introduction by Stephen Gwynn. Three Volumes. Pendennis. By W. M. THACKERAY. Edited by

Stephen Gwynn. Three Volumes.

Esmond. By W. M. THACKERAY.

Stephen Gwynn.

Edited by

Pride and Prejudice. By JANE AUSTEN. Edited by E. V. Lucas. Two Volumes.

Northanger Abbey. By JANE AUSTEN. Edited

by E. V. Lucas.

Cranford. By Mrs GASKEll.

Lucas.

Edited by E. V.

John Halifax, Gentleman. By Mrs CRAIK. Edited by Annie Matheson. Two Volumes.

Marriage. By SUSAN FERRIER. Edited by A. Goodrich-Freer. With critical notices by the Earl of Iddesleigh. Two Volumes.

The Compleat Angler. By IZAAK WALTON and CHARLES COTTON. Edited by J. Buchan.

By WILLIAM BECKFORD.

The Caliph Vathek.
Edited by E. Denison Ross.

Eothen. By A. W. KINGLAKE. With an Intro

duction and Notes.

Lavengro. By GEORGE BORROW.

F. Hindes Groome. Two Volumes.

A Sentimental Journey.

Edited by Herbert Paul.

Edited by

By LAWRENCE STerne.

The Life of Mansie Wauch. By D. M. MOIR. Edited by T. F. Henderson.

The Princess. By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. Edited by Elizabeth Wordsworth.

In Memoriam. By ALFRED,

LORD TENNYSON.

Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A. The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Edited by J. Churton Collins, M.A.

Maud. By Alfred, Lord TenNYSON. Edited by Elizabeth Wordsworth.

The Inferno of Dante. Translated by H. F. CARY.
Revised and edited by Paget Toynbee, D.Litt.

The Purgatorio of Dante. Translated by H. F.
CARY. Revised and edited by Paget Toynbee, D.Litt.
The Paradiso of Dante. Translated by H. F.
CARY. Revised and edited by Paget Toynbee, D.Litt.
The English Poems of Richard Crashaw.
Edited by Edward Hutton.
Selections from Wordsworth.
C. Smith.

Edited by Nowell

Selections from Blake. Edited by Mark Perugini.
A Little Book of English Lyrics. With Notes.
A Little Book of Scottish Verse. Arranged and
Edited by T. F. Henderson.

A Little Book of Light Verse. Edited by Anthony
C. Deane, M.A.

A Little Book of English Prose. Selected and arranged by Annie Barnett.

Elia, and the Last Essays of Elia. By CHARLES LAMB. Edited by E. V. Lucas.

The following works are in the press :

Christmas Books. By W. M. THACKERAY. Edited by Stephen Gwynn.

Christmas Books. By CHARLES DICKENS. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. Two Volumes.

The Inheritance.

By SUSAN FERRIER. Edited by A. Goodrich-Freer. With critical notices by the Earl of Iddesleigh. Two Volumes,

The Ingoldsby Legends. By R. H. BARHAM. Edited by J. B. Atlay. Two Volumes.

The Early Poems of Robert Browning. Edited by W. Hall Griffin.

A Little Book of Life and Death. Edited by

Elizabeth Waterhouse.

The following works are in preparation :— The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by EDWARD FITZGERALD. Edited by E. Denison Ross. Our Village. By Miss MITFORD. (First Series.) Edited by E. V. Lucas.

Tales from Shakespeare. By CHARLES LAMB. Edited by E. V. Lucas.

On Heroes. By THOMAS CARLYLE. Edited by H. L. Withers.

Sartor Resartus. By THOMas Carlyle. Edited by J. MacCunn.

A Little Book of English Sonnets. Edited by

B. Nichols.

Selections from Longfellow.

Faithfull.

Edited by Miss

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