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The Complete Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, comprising Poems (1865), May-Day and other Pieces (1867), seven miscellaneous poems (1833-76), and the Verse-mottoes to the Essays. With indexes of titles and first lines, and a photogravure of the portrait drawn by S. W. ROWSE. Pp. viii, 316.

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The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with her prefaces and advertisements, and two prose-essays (1842), Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' and 'The Book of the Poets'. With indexes of first lines and titles, and a photogravure of the portrait drawn by FIELD TALFOURD. Pp. viii, 668. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, containing copyright poems included by permission. With the author's and other notes (pp. 30), an index of first lines and a photogravure portrait. [For an edition with coloured illustrations, see p. 182.] Pp. viii, 878.

The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, the text as last revised and arranged by the author, with his introductions, notes (pp. 13), and poems posthumously published. Edited by W. GARRETT HORDER, with a list of the poems chronologically arranged, indexes of first lines and titles, and a photogravure portrait. Pp. xvi, 598.

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, according to the contents and text of 1845-the last edition published in the poet's lifetime-incorporating some corrections in his handwriting marked in a copy of that edition, and adding poems not there included as well as other texts of some of the poems. Together with three Essays: The Poetic Principle, The Philosophy of Composition, and The Rationale of Verse. Edited by R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON, with a Memoir (pp. 34), Bibliography (pp. 16), and Notes, mainly textual (pp. 17), and a photogravure portrait from a daguerrotype of 1848. Pp. lx, 316.

Poems of Tennyson, 1829-1868, in the latest text before 1869, including The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, four of the Idylls of the King, Enoch Arden, &c.; but omitting as unidentifiable his contributions to Poems by Two Brothers, 1826; the poems not included in the author's final edition grouped in an Appendix (pp. 42). With an Introduction by Sir HERBERT WARREN (pp. 16), a list of chief dates in Tennyson's life and literary career, a list of the poems in chronological order (pp. 18), indexes of titles and first lines, and a photogravure of the portrait painted by G. F. WATTS in 1869. [For an edition with coloured illustrations, see p. 182.] Pp. xl, 752.

The Poems of Robert Browning, 1838-1868, including the Dramatic Lyrics and Romances, Men and Women, the tragedies and other plays, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas Eve and Easter-Day, and Sordello (all reprinted from the three-volume edition of 1863), Dramatis Personae (1864, second edition), a Sonnet (1834) and a short poem, Ben Karshook's Wisdom (1856), not reprinted by Browning in any collected edition of his poems; and another short poem, Orpheus and Eurydice (1864) on a picture by Leighton. The elucidatory headings to Sordello, which first appeared in the edition of 1863, have been omitted here as by Browning in the final edition of his poems, 1889. With an index of first lines and a photogravure of the portrait drawn by FIELD TALFOURD. Pp. viii, 696.

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The Ring and the Book, by ROBERT BROWNING, reprinted from the editions of 1868-9. With an Introduction, critical and appreciatory (pp. 12), by EDWARD DOWDEN, four facsimiles from the 'Old Yellow Book' in the Library of Balliol College, Oxford, and a photogravure of the portrait drawn by FIELD TALFOURD. Pp. xvi, 506. The Poetical Works of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, including Poland, Homer, and other Poems, 1832; Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1849; Firmilian, 1854; Bothwell, 1856, reprinted from the third edition, 1858; miscellaneous poems, mostly from Blackwood's Magazine, including some hitherto uncollected; and, by permission of Messrs. W. Blackwood & Sons, Aytoun's contributions to the Bon Gaultier Ballads (1845) and to The Poems and Ballads of Goethe (1859). With a photogravure from a cast of the bust by PATRIC PARK. Pp. viii+ 510.

Poems of James Russell Lowell, 1844-1888, that is to say the whole body of his poetical work, the republication of which was sanctioned by himself, except Heartsease and Rue (1888) and Last Poems (1895), including his introductions, glossary, and index to The Biglow Papers (two series), and Thomas Hughes's preface to the English edition of the first series. With indexes of titles and first lines, and a photogravure portrait. Pp. vi, 630.

The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, printed in chronological order, the text of each poem being the latest down to 1867, all earlier verbal variations being noted at the bottom of the page. Arnold's Prefaces to the volumes of 1853, 1854, and Merope (1858) are included, and his own notes are printed at the end of the book, a few others being added, some textual, others giving brief explanations of allusions in the text or references for passages quoted. With an introduction, biographical and critical (pp. 14), by Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, indexes of titles and first lines and a photogravure of the portrait painted by G. F. WATTS. Pp. xxviii, 460.

The Complete Poetical Works of Austin Dobson, being a reprint of

the last issue of the Collected Poems, the third edition, ninth impression, 1920, with the addition of Rondeaus of the Great War and some miscellaneous pieces. With a preface by ALBAN DOBSON, notes, index to first lines, index to titles, and bibliographical index. Pp. xxiv, 526, with photogravure portrait.

The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, including all the Poems and Masks (but excluding the eight dramas) contained in the collected editions of the Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, namely Prometheus the Firegiver, Demeter, Eros and Psyche, The Growth of Love, Shorter Poems, and New Poems (1899), together with two groups of Later Poems and Poems in Classical Prosody, now published for the first time or now first collected, with an index of first lines, and a photogravure of the portrait drawn by L. RICHARD TRONCY. Pp. vi, 472.

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The Oxford Hymn Book, being a selection of Hymns made at the request of the
Clarendon Press, by Dr. STRONG and Dr. SANDAY, and largely drawn from the older
Composers, Watts, the Wesleys, Doddridge, Cowper, Newton, with a few Latin hymns: with
Music selected and arranged under the advice of Dr. BASIL HARWOOD. Crown 8vo,
pp. xiv, 922. See also pp. 48 c, 464.
At the Clarendon Press.

The Pageant of English Poetry, being eleven hundred and fifty poems or parts
of poems from three hundred poets covering more than six hundred years, arranged for
convenience of reference in the alphabetical order of the poets' names. Selected and
edited by R. M. LEONARD, with an index of first lines in which the authors are sub-
joined (23 pages), and a subject-index (6 pages) in which an attempt is made at classifica-
tion. With a frontispiece (in photogravure) showing a group of five portraits: SHAKE-
SPEARE, MILTON, SHELLEY, KEATS, and TENNYSON. Pp. xvi, 606.
Oxford University Press, London.
A Century of Parody and Imitation, beginning with the Rejected Addresses
(1812) of Horace and James Smith, here printed in their entirety, and closing with Andrew
Lang, who died in 1912. Selected and edited by WALTER JERROLD and R. M.
LEONARD, with Notes (28 pages), Alphabetical List of Authors, with their parodies
or imitations (7 pages), index of Authors parodied (4 pages), and index of first
lines (5 pages). With a portrait (in photogravure) of HORACE and JAMES SMITH.
Pp. xvi, 430.
Oxford University Press, London.

A Book of Light Verse, XIV to XIX Centuries, the poems arranged in groups according to their subjects. Selected and edited by R. M. LEONARD, with a preface (6 pages), Notes, incorporating many from LOCKER-LAMPSON'S Lyra Elegantiarum (16 pages), together with an Alphabetical List of Authors and Titles (17 pages), and an index of first lines and titles (19 pages). With a frontispiece (in photogravure) showing a group of five portraits: JONSON, HERRICK, PRIOR, LANDOR, and PRAED. Pp. xxviii, 448. Oxford University Press, London.

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The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare, the Oxford Text (see p. 177) illustrated with sixteen pictures in colour and thirty-four in black and white. Tree calf and other styles of leather; also cloth, boards, gilt top, 8s. 6d. net.

Illustrated with thirty-two pictures taken from the Boydell Gallery. Polished levant, tree calf, rutland or straight grain; also cloth, gilt extra side and back, 8s. 6d. net. Copies on Oxford India paper. Straight grain; also cloth, gilt, 12s. net. Oxford University Press, London. Poems of Tennyson, 1830-1870, with an introduction by Sir HERBERT WARREN, illustrated with two pictures in colour after G. F. WATTS, and ninety-one illustrations in black and white by ROSSETTI, MILLAIS, MULREADY, MACLISE, STANFIELD, and others printed in the text. Tree calf, italian, and three other styles of leather only. Oxford University Press, London.

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated with eight pictures in colour, and four of Longfellow's Heroines in photogravure from drawings by HAROLD COPPING. Also with a photogravure frontispiece of the author. 1914. Tree calf, italian, and three other styles of leather; also cloth, boards, gilt top, 8s. 6d. net. Oxford University Press, London.

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The Oxford Scott

Complete edition of the Novels in twenty-four volumes, with the author's Introductions and Notes, a list of principal characters, and a newly prepared glossary to each novel, 13,688 pp., with 930 illustrations, in three forms:

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1. Waverley. With fifty-seven illustrations, pp. 622.

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2. Guy Mannering. With seventy-four illustrations, pp. 582.

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14. The Fortunes of Nigel. With fifty-two illustrations, pp. 600.
15. Peveril of the Peak. With thirty illustrations, pp. 706.
16. Quentin Durward. With fourteen illustrations, pp. 544.
17. St. Ronan's Well, and the Surgeon's Daughter.
With twenty-four illustrations, pp. 688.

18. Redgauntlet. With thirty-six illustrations, pp. 528.
19. The Betrothed, Chrystal Croftangry's Narrative, and The
Highland Widow. With thirty-six illustrations, pp. 584.

20. The Talisman.

The Two Drovers.

Aunt Margaret's Mirror.

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21. Woodstock. With sixty-three illustrations, pp. 640.
22. The Fair Maid of Perth. With thirty-four illustrations, pp. 546.
23. Anne of Geierstein. With twenty-four illustrations, pp. 540.
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The Oxford Thackeray

Issued in three forms. For Contents see next page

Oxford India paper edition, ranging with the Oxford India paper edition Dickens, fcap 8vo (63×43), in seventeen volumes, lambskin, thin boards, maroon or dark green, gilt top, the set 119s. net, or each volume 7s. net; moroccoette, gilt top, the set 76s. 6d. net, or each volume 4s. 6d. net.

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Contents of the Oxford Thackeray

Arranged and edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY, containing all the certainly authentic work, including, by special arrangement, that still in copyright, printed so far as possible in the order of composition, with 1,942 illustrations, pp. 12,524.

1. 1829-41. The Yellowplush Papers, Major Gahagan, Stubbs's Calendar, The Bedford Row Conspiracy, Flore et Zephyr, Early Miscellanies. With sixty-four illustrations, pp. 660. 2. 1837-45. The Paris Sketch Book, and Art Criticisms. With 103 illustrations, pp. 754. 3. 1839-41. Catherine, Cox's Diary, A Shabby Genteel Story, The Second Funeral of Napoleon, and Miscellanies, 1840-1. With twenty-four illustrations, pp. 580.

4. 1841-3. The Great Hoggarty Diamond, The Fitzboodle Papers, and Men's Wives. With seventeen illustrations, pp. 528.

5. 1842-4. The Irish Sketch Book, and Contributions to the Foreign Quarterly Review. With forty-five illustrations, pp. 564.

6. 1843-7. Barry Lyndon, Miscellaneous Papers 1843 to 1847, The Wagstaff Papers, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches. With fifty-seven illustrations, pp. 676.

7. 1833-60. Ballads, and Contributions to Punch, 1842-50 (The Legend of JawbrahimHeraudee, Miss Tickletoby's English History, The Next French Revolution, The Diary of Jeames de la Pluche, A Little Dinner at Timmins's). With 106 illustrations, pp. 514. 8. 1843-54. Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch, 1843-54 (The Fat Contributor Papers, Novels by Eminent Hands, Sketches and Travels in London, Mr. Brown's Letters to his Nephew, The Proser, &c.). With 197 illustrations, pp. 636.

9. 1845-7. A Legend of the Rhine, Cornhill to Cairo, and The Book of Snobs. With 308 illustrations, pp. 624.

10. 1846-61. Christmas Books, Rebecca and Rowena, and Later Minor Papers. With 170 illustrations, pp. 696.

11. 1848. Vanity Fair. With 193 illustrations, pp. 910.

12. 1849-50. Pendennis. With 182 illustrations, pp. 1042.

13. 1852-60. Henry Esmond, The English Humourists, and the Four Georges. With thirtysix illustrations, pp. 860.

14. 1854-5. The Newcomes. With 172 illustrations, pp. 1046.

15. 1858-9. The Virginians. With 147 illustrations, pp. 1036.

16. 1861-2. The Adventures of Philip. With sixty-three illustrations, pp. 678.

17. 1860-4. The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel the Widower, Denis Duval, and Roundabout Papers. With sixty illustrations, pp. 730.

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