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Annotated Anthologies (continued)

Scenes from Old Play Books, by P. SIMPSON. Crown 8vo (72×51). Introduction pp. viii, Text pp. 226, Notes &c. pp. 227–48. 3s. 6d.

At the Clarendon Press.

Representative English Dramas. From Dryden to Sheridan. By F. TUPPER and J. W. TUPPER. 1914. Conquest of Granada; All for Love; Venice Preserved ; Way of the World; Beaux' Stratagem; Cato; Conscious Lovers; Beggar's Opera; Tom Thumb the Great; She Stoops to Conquer; Rivals; School for Scandal. Crown 8vo (72 × 52), pp. 466. 10s. 6d. net. Oxford University Press American Branch.

The Arabian Nights, Andersen, and Grimm

The Arabian Nights. A Selection from Lane's Translation, with Aladdin, the Adventures of Caliph Haroun Alrashid, and Ali Baba, from Jonathan Scott's translation (1811), with forty-six illustrations by A. B. HOUGHTON and others. 1915. Pp. viii, 734. From 3s. 6d. net. See p. 188. India paper, see p. 150. Oxford Standard Authors.

Andersen's Fairy Tales and other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen. A Selection of sixty stories, revised and in part newly translated, some for the first time, by W. A. and J. K. CRAIGIE. 1914. With fifty-six illustrations, mostly from Danish editions. Pp. vi, 664. [For the complete edition, see p. 150.] From 3s. 6d. net. See p. 188.

Oxford Standard Authors. Grimm's Popular Stories, being fifty-five stories collected by the BROTHERS GRIMM. A reprint in one volume of the first English edition, in two volumes, of 1823 and 1826. With twenty-two illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, and twenty-five pages of notes. Pp. xx, 404. From 3s. 6d. net. See p. 188. Oxford Standard Authors.

Greek Classics for English Readers: edited by J. C. COLLINS

Matthew Arnold's Merope, with the Electra of Sophocles translated by R.
WHITELAW. Edited by J. ĈHURTON COLLINS. Second edition revised, 1917.
Crown 8vo (7×5). Introduction pp. 27, Text pp. 28-91, Notes &c. pp. 92-118; Intro-
duction pp. 119-20, Text pp. 121-67, Notes pp. 168-70. 3s.
At the Clarendon Press.

The Genius of the Greek Drama. Three Plays, being the Agamemnon of
Aeschylus, the Antigone of Sophocles, and the Medea of Euripides, rendered and adapted
with an Introduction by CYRIL E. ROBINSON. 1921. Crown 8vo (74×5), pp. 96, with
short notes (6 pp.), and two illustrations. 2s. 6d. net.
At the Clarendon Press.

With introductions and notes. Fcap 8vo (63 × 43)

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, translated by J. CONINGTON. Introduction pp. xlviii, Text pp. 54, Notes pp. 55-74. 2s. 6d. net.

At the Clarendon Press.

At the Clarendon Press.

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, translated by R. WHITELAW. Introduction pp. xlviii, Text pp. 36, Notes pp. 37-54. 2s. 6d. net. Euripides' Alcestis, translated by H. KYNASTON. 1906, reissued 1923. Introduction pp. xxxii, Text pp. 36, Notes pp. 37-44. Stiff paper cover, 1s. net. At the Clarendon Press. Sophocles' Antigone, translated by R.WHITELAW. Introduction pp. 1, Text pp. 44, Notes pp. 45-56. 2s. 6d. net.

At the Clarendon Press.

Introduction by

Speeches from Thucydides, selected from Jowett's translation.
GILBERT MURRAY. 1919. Crown 8vo (74 × 5), pp. 78. 1s. n. At the Clarendon Press.

World's Classics

A series in constant progress, already containing two hundred and thirty-five volumes. offering in small compass and at a low price the most famous works in the English language, with some translations, arranged in the list following in five sections:

Anthologies-Poetry-Novels and Romances-Other Prose-Translations.

Pott 8vo (6 × 4). The series is now issued only in the Pocket Edition, printed on thin, opaque paper. The price per volume, bound in Art cloth, limp, gilt, extra back, is 2s. net; or in sultan red leather, limp, extra back, gilt top, price 3s. 6d. net.

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The volumes are also issued as a Library of Standard Works in three styles :-Brown antique leather, embossed design, gilt top, price 4s. net per volume; Italian, thin boards, gilt design, gilt top, and Velvet persian, yapp edges, gilt top, all with bookmarker.

Alphabetical List of some books in the series of World's Classics known to many people primarily by their titles; for an index of the Authors see the General Index.

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Entail, the.
Esmond.
Essays of Elia.
Felix Holt.
Gil Blas.

Golden Treasury.
Great Expectations.
Gulliver's Travels.
Harold.

History of Selborne.
Horae Subsecivae.

Joseph and his Brethren.
King's Own, the.

Last of the Mohicans.
Lavengro.

Leaves of Grass.

Right at Last and Other Tales.
Robinson Crusoe.

Romany Rye.

Romola.

Round the Sofa.

Ruth.

Sartor Resartus.

Scalp Hunters (o.p.).

Scenes of Clerical Life.

Letters from High Latitudes. Scarlet Letter.

Lizzie Leigh.

Lord of the Harvest.

Lorna Doone.
Margaret Catchpole.
Mary Barton.
Midshipman Easy.
Mill on the Floss.
Moby Dick.

Mutiny of the Bounty.
New Atlantis.

North and South.

Oliver Twist.
Opium Eater.

Pendennis (o.p.).
Pickwick Papers (o.p.).
Pilgrim's Progress.

Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Professor, the.

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Walden.

Warden, The.

What I believe.

Who can be happy in Russia?
Winterslow.

Professor at the Breakfast Wives and Daughters.

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1. Anthologies

Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language (1861), with 160 pages of additional poems by FITZGERALD, TENNYSON, the BROWNINGS, ARNOLD, and other modern poets. 1907, reprinted yearly to 1913. New and enlarged edition, 1914, 14th imp. 1921. Pp. xiv, 532.

No. 133.

English Songs and Ballads, compiled by T. W. H. CROSLAND. 1902, 7th imp.

1921. Pp. xvi, 352.

World's Classics, No. 13.

English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin, chosen and arranged by W. PEACOCK.

7th imp. 1921. Pp. xiv, 380.

World's Classics, No. 45.

English Prose, chosen and arranged by W. PEACOCK in 5 volumes: I. Wycliffe to
Clarendon (1921; pp. xvi, 589); II. Milton to Gray (1921; pp. xii, 593); III. Walpole to
Lamb (1921; pp. x, 552); IV. Landor to Holmes (1922; pp. viii+622); V. Mrs. Gaskell
to Henry James (1922; pp. viii + 564).
World's Classics, Nos. 219–223.
English Prose, Narrative, Descriptive, Dramatic (Malory to Stevenson), compiled by
H. A. TREBLE. 1916, 3rd imp. 1921. Pp. xii, 510.

World's Classics, No. 204.

World's Classics, No. 32.

World's Classics, No. 172.

English Essays, chosen and arranged by W. PEACOCK. 1903, 16th imp. 1921.
Pp. xii, 556.
English Essays, 1600-1900, chosen by S. V. MAKOWER and B. H. BLACKWELL.
1912, 5th imp. 1920. Pp. xii, 440.
English Letters (fifteenth to nineteenth centuries), Sir T. More to the Brownings and
Charlotte Brontë, selected by M. DUCKITT and H. WRAGG. 1913, 3rd imp. 1916.
Pp. xvi, 460.
World's Classics, No. 192.
English Short Stories (xix and xx centuries), from Sir Walter Scott to Gerald Warre
Cornish, selected by HUGH WALKER and H. S. MILFORD, with an introduction (in
Series I) by HUGH WALKER. Two Series: I, 1914, 8th imp. 1921; II, 1921. Pp. xxxvi,
486; x, 483.
World's Classics, Nos. 193, 228.

English Speeches from Burke to Gladstone, selected and edited by E. R. JONES.

1913. Pp. viii, 384.

World's Classics, No. 191.

Speeches on British Foreign Policy, 1738-1914, selected by E. R. JONES. 1914. Pp. viii, 550.

World's Classics, No. 201.

Selected Speeches and Documents on British Colonial Policy, 1763-1917. Edited
by A. B. KEITH. In 2 volumes. 1918. Pp. xxiv, 805. World's Classics, Nos. 215-16.
Letters Written in War Time (xv-xix centuries), selected and arranged by
H. WRAGG. 1915. Pp. xii, 266.
World's Classics, No. 202.

For letters by Cowper, Burke, and Southey, see pp. 224, 225

Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Criticism (Heminge and Condell to Carlyle). With an introduction by D. NICHOL SMITH. 1916. Pp. xxxii, 416. Heminge and Condell, Preface to the first collection of Shakespeare's Plays; Ben Jonson, To the Memory of my beloved, the Author, De Shakespeare Nostrati; Milton, On Shakespeare; I.M.S., On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems; Fuller, William Shakespeare; Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, letter cxxiii; Dryden, from Of Dramatic Poesie, from various Prefaces and Prologues; Phillips, from Theatrum Poetarum ; Rowe, from Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear; Addison and Steele, from The Spectator; Pope, from the Preface to Shakespeare's Works 1725, from the epistle to Augustus; Gray, from a letter to Richard West, from the Progress of Poesy; J. Warton, from the Adventurer; Lord Kames, from Elements of Criticism; Lord Lyttleton, from Dialogues of the Dead; Samuel Johnson, from the Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, the Dedication to Shakespear Illustrated, the Edition of Shakespear's Works 1765; Whatley, from Some Remarks on some of the Characters of Shakespeare; Richardson, from the introduction to A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of some of Shakespear's Remarkable Characters; Morgann, from An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff; Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare; Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria, the Lectures, and Table Talk; Hazlitt, from Characters of Shakespear's Plays, Lectures on the English Poets, and Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Jeffrey, from review of Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespear's Plays; De Quincey, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, from the article on Shakespeare in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; Landor, from Imaginary Conversations; Carlyle, The Hero as Poet. No. 212.

For a List of the Lives, see p. 171

Lives of the English Poets, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1779-81), with an intro-
duction by ARTHUR WAUGH. 1906, 3rd imp. 1920. Two volumes. Pp. xx, 478, 500.
World's Classics, Nos. 83, 84.
Lives of the Novelists, by Sir WALTER SCOTT (1821-4), with an introduction by
AUSTIN DOBSON. Lives of Fielding, Smollett, Le Sage, Johnstone, Sterne, Goldsmith,
Johnson, Mackenzie, Walpole, Reeve, Richardson, Bage, Cumberland, Mrs. Radcliffe.
1906. Pp. xii, 342.
World's Classics, No. 94.
Characters of Shakespeare and Comic Writers, by HAZLITT, see p. 225.
English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries).
Selected and edited by EDMUND D. JONES. Essays by Sir Philip Sidney, Campion,
Daniel, Bacon, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Dennis, Pope, Addison, Gray, Young, Hurd,
Johnson, and T. Warton. 1922. Pp. viii+ 460.
World's Classics, No. 240.
English Critical Essays (nineteenth century), selected by E. D. JONES. Essays
by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake (the Canterbury Pilgrims), Lamb (Shakespeare), Shelley,
Hazlitt (First Acquaintance with Poets), Keble, Newman (Aristotle's Poetics), Carlyle,
Leigh Hunt, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin (the Pathetic Fallacy), J. S. Mill, Bagehot (the
Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque), Pater (on Coleridge), Emerson (on Shakespeare), Lowell
(Wordsworth). 1916, 4th imp. 1921. Pp. viii, 610.
World's Classics, No. 206.

2. Poetry

The Poetical Works of Chaucer from the text of Professor SKEAT. Vol. I, 1903, reprinted 1906. Vol. II, 1903, reprinted 1910. Vol. III, 1906, reprinted 1910, 1921. Three volumes: I. The_Romaunt of the Rose and Minor Poems, pp. 324; II. Troilus and Criseyde, Hous of Fame, Legend of Good Women, pp. 402; III. Canterbury Tales, pp. 602. World's Classics, Nos. 42, 56, 76. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus 1604, with Goethe's Faust, Part I, translated by JOHN ANSTER 1835, and an introduction to the two plays by Sir A. W. WARD. 1907, reprinted 1916, 1919. Pp. xxxii, 236. World's Classics, No. 135. ́ Shakespeare's Complete Works, being the Oxford text edited by W. J. CRAIG, with a general introduction by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, introductory studies of the several plays by EDWARD DOWDEN, and a note by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON on the typographical and other features of this edition. Nine volumes, pp. lxii+4042. 1910-11, reprinted 1921. I-III. Comedies (with glossary, pp. 69); IV-VI. Histories and Poems (with glossary, pp. 73); VII-IX. Tragedies (with glossary, pp. 123). Paste grain cases for the three volumes can be supplied with or without lid.

Also on Oxford India paper, rutland or paste grain limp; superfine cloth, see p. 149. Also a larger crown 8vo edition, on ordinary and Oxford India paper, see p. 167. World's Classics, Ños. 100-108. Six Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare. DEKKER, The Shoemaker's Holiday; WEBSTER, The White Devil; BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Philaster; WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi; MASSINGER, A New Way to pay Old Debts. Edited by C. B. WHEELER. 1915. Pp. xii, 597. No. 199. Herrick's Poems (1648), complete. 1902, 5th imp. 1920. Pp. xxviii, 402. No. 16. Herbert's Poems, English and Latin, the text based by permission of Messrs. George Bell & Sons on that of Dr. A. B. GROSART, with an introduction by ARTHUR WAUGH. 1907, reprinted 1912. Pp. xxviii, 278. World's Classics, No. 109.

No. 182.

Milton's Poems, a reprint of the English poems, from the Oxford edition of H. C. BEECHING, with modernized spelling. 1913, reprinted 1921. Pp. 496. Goldsmith's Poetical Works, complete, with introduction (pp. ix-xxix) and notes (pp. 151-280), by AUSTIN DOBSON. 1907, 2nd. imp. 1912. Pp. xxxvi, 280. No. 123. The Poetical Works of Burns, complete, with the poet's notes, a glossary, and index of first lines. 1903, 5th imp. 1919. Pp. xxiv, 608. The Poems of Wordsworth, a selection, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1913, 3rd imp. 1921. Pp. 588.

World's Classics, No. 34.

World's Classics, No. 189.

The Poems of Sir Walter Scott, a selection, with index of first lines. 1913. Pp. 600.

World's Classics, No. 186.

The Poems of Coleridge, a selection, with an introduction by Sir ARTHUR

QUILLER-COUCH and an index of first lines. 1907, 2nd imp. 1912. Pp. xxviii, 392. No.99. The Poems of Byron, a selection, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1913. Pp. 446. World's Classics, No. 180. a selection, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1913, World's Classics, No. 187.

The Poems of Shelley, reprinted 1921. Pp. 488. The Poetical Works of Keats, complete. 1901, 7th imp. 1921. Pp. 344. No. 7. The Christian Year, by JOHN KEBLE (1827), with indexes of titles and first lines. 1914. Pp. 274. World's Classics, No. 181. The Poems of Hood, a selection, with an introduction by WALTER JERROLD, and index of first lines. 1907, reprinted 1910. Pp. xx, 516. World's Classics, No. 87. The Poems of the Brontës, forming with The Professor Vol. V of the Works of the Brontës, see p. 221; with an introduction by T. WATTS-DUNTON. 1906, reprinted 1912. Pp. xviii, 428. World's Classics, No. 78.

The Ingoldsby Legends, by RICHARD BARHAM, 1840. 1901, 6th imp. 1920,

World's Classics, No. 9.

Pp. xii, 604. Joseph and his Brethren, a dramatic poem by CHARLES WELLS (1824), with an introduction by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, and a note on Rossetti and Charles Wells by T. WATTS-DUNTON. 1908. Pp. lviii, 230, World's Classics, No. 143. Lays of Ancient Rome, 1842, with Ivry, 1824, and the Armada, 1832, by Lord MACAULAY, with the original preface. 1902, 3rd imp. 1917. Pp. xxviii, 114. No. 27. Longfellow's Poetical Works. Two volumes. Vol. I, Evangeline, the Golden Legend, &c., 1903, 4th imp. 1920; Vol. II, Hiawatha and other Poems, 1912, 2nd imp. 1921. Pp. 930. Nos. 39, 174. Poems of Whittier, a selection including Narrative and Legendary, Personal, Religious Nature and anti-slavery poems; and songs of Labour and Reform, the Tent on the Beach, At Sundown, and Early Verses, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1913. Pp. 496. No. 188. Poems of Tennyson, 1830-1865, a selection, including Mariana, the Lady of Shalott, the Lotos-Eaters, A Dream of Fair Women, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, the Day Dream, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, the Brook, the Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, four of the Idylls of the King, Enoch Arden. With an introduction by Sir HERBERT WARREN. 1910, 5th imp. 1921. Pp. xxvi, 600. World's Classics, No. 3. Poems of E. B. Browning, a selection. Lament for Adonis, Vision of Poets, Poets Vow, miscellaneous poems, and Sonnets from the Portuguese. 1912. Pp. 436. No. 176. Poems of Robert Browning, 1833-1864. 2 vols. I. Pauline, Paracelsus, Strafford, Sordello, Pippa Passes, King Victor and King Charles (1833-42). 1904,4th imp. 1920. Pp.500. II. Dramatic Lyrics and Romances, Men and Women, and Dramatis Personae (1842-64). 1907, 4th imp. 1920. Nos. 58, 137. Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1849-1867, with an introduction by Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, and a brief bibliography. 1906, 5th imp. 1921, Pp. xxiv, 414. No. 85. Poems and Translations by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, 1850-1870, with the prose story Hand and Soul from the Germ, 1850, and the Early Italian Poets, 1861, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1914. Pp. 512. World's Classics, No. 185. Leaves of Grass, 1855-1890, by WALT WHITMAN, selected and edited with an introduction by ERNEST DE SÉLINCOURT. 1920. Pp. xl, 392. World's Classics, No. 218. Poems of Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, 1862, The Prince's Progress, 1866, and other poems, 1840-69, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1913. Pp. 310. No. 184. Poems of William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, 1858, Life and Death of Jason, 1867, and other poems, 1856-70, including two sonnets here first reprinted, with indexes of titles and first lines. 1914. Pp. 534. World's Classics, No. 183. Poems. By AUSTIN DOBSON (Selected). 1905, reprinted 1909. Pp. viii+ 184, with frontispiece. World's Classics, No. 249.

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