ENGLISH LITERATURE BY STOPFORD A. BROOKE, M.A. With Chapters on English Literature (1832-1892) and on American Literature, 358 pp., 12mo, $1.00 A revision of the Primer of English Literature by Stopford Brooke, so well known to all teachers of English. The additional material, covering the period since 1832, has made the book a practical manual for classes. REPRESENTATIVE BIOGRAPHIES OF ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS Chosen and Edited by CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND, Lecturer on English Literature in Harvard University, and Instructor in English in Harvard University 642 pp., 12mo, $1.25 In this book are illustrated the varieties of biographical writing. There are included: first, extracts from notable autobiographies, among which are those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Colley Cibber, Gibbon, and Ruskin; second, examples of the method and style of such famous biographers as Izaak Walton, Dr. Johnson, Boswell, Lockhart, Southey, Macaulay, and Carlyle; and third, many complete lives from the Dictionary of National Biography which represent the work of the most accomplished of modern literary historians. To teachers such a collection will suggest ways of enlivening and humanizing the study of literature for their pupils, for it shows the intimate relationship of the author to his written product as a part of his life and thought, and not as a thing apart and isolated; the unconscious self-revelation of actuating motives and purposes, hopes and ambitions, all reveal literature as part and product of life, pulsing with vitality and fire as it is shaped and moulded by the hands of the great masters. In a general survey course such a collection should be of first importance, since it serves to remove the barrier which separates student and writers, for the former is able to see, for the first time, that the latter also are men of like passions. A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 819 pp., 12mo, $1.50 The object of this book is to give, from the literary point of view only, as full, as well supplied, and as conveniently arranged a storehouse of facts as the writer could provide. It is admirably adapted for use as a class text, particularly in the "General Survey" course. A HISTORY OF ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY 471 pp., 12mo, $1.50 The author has given a complete and clearly arranged view of the actual literary productions of the period from 1560 to 1660, excluding or only lightly touching on those authors in its later part who may be said to have anticipated or prepared the PostRestoration changes, but including those who, even long after 1660, produced great work in the Ante-Restoration styles. ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST BY STOPFORD A. BROOKE 338 pp., 12mo, $1.50 This volume was prepared to meet the need for a book which should be less expensive than the History of Early English Literature, and of a length suitable for students in colleges. As far as the chapter on King Alfred, it is a recast and condensation of the larger book. The additional matter brings the history of Anglo-Saxon literature to the Conquest, and a concluding chapter, "The Passing of Old English," carries the story down to the Thirteenth Century. Translations of some remarkable Anglo-Saxon poems are given in the Appendix, and a valuable bibliography is added. ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO CHAUCER BY WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD, PH.D. 500 pp., 12mo, $1.50 This book covers particularly the period down to the birth of Chaucer, but deals also with such later productions (romances, tales, legends, and the like) as are written in the early medieval styles. The author has arranged his material by bringing all writings of one kind together and tracing separately the evolution of each type. He has not limited himself to the writings in the English vernacular, but has considered attentively all works written in medieval England and has compared them with similar Continental productions. He has devoted a long chapter to Anglo-Latin literature, in which he makes clear the gradual change in intellectual attitude in Europe during the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries-the ages, as he names them, of monasticism, feudalism, scholasticism and nationalism. A HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE (1660-1780) BY EDMUND GOSSE, M.A. 415 pp., 12mo, $1.50 In this outline the author has taken great pains to determine the relative value of the individual writers and to proportion the space accordingly. He has included a running bibliography, turning his attention to the accurate chronicling of the original dates and forms of publication. At the same time he has given a clear presentation, without confusion or affectation, of those literary developments which came to their climax in the early part of the eighteenth century, and seem to be related to what are generally considered the characteristic features of that age in social, intellectual and artistic matters. A HISTORY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh 477 pp., 12mo, $1.50 Recognizing the danger of mixing estimates of work which is done and of work which is unfinished, the author has excluded from this outline history all the living writers. He has presented a critical evaluation of the writers of the nineteenth century and their contribution to the literature of their time, and has shown the molding influence of the writers in the early part of the century upon those of the latter end. LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN BY FREDERICK SCHLEGEL 420 pp., 12mo, $1.25 A series of sixteen lectures portraying the genius of literature during every age, as a whole, and tracing the course of its development among the most important nations. HANDBOOKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Edited by PROFESSOR HALES 16 mo. Each vol., $1.00 The plan of this series is to present a general history of English literature in a number of introductory manuals, each dealing with a well-defined period and individually complete. CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BY FREDERICK RYLAND, M.A. 351 pp., 12mo, $1.50 A colorless outline within which details may be placed, and which may serve to bring into prominence the chronological relations of the facts they deal with. It is divided into two parts. Part I brings the annals of English literature into connection with general European literature and with history. Part II contains an alphabetical list of authors with their principal works. In addition the author has made an attempt toward settling uncertain dates in the case of works which were in circulation before the middle of the seventeenth century. THE HISTORY OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE Being the History of English Poetry from its beginnings to the accession of King Alfred BY STOPFORD A. BROOKE 502 pp., 800, $2.50 A comprehensive, critical account of early Anglo-Saxon poetry, written from a literary point of view, and with a desire to teach reverence and love for the early poetry of the Anglo-Saxon race. Critical and scientific questions, therefore, are not entered into unless necessary. In the translation the original has been rigidly followed, usually line for line, and the rhythm copies as closely as possible the movement and variety of the original verse. A notable feature of the work is the introduction of correlative matter which brings the reader into touch with the history of the country, giving life, color and reality to the time. MAIN CURRENTS IN 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE A critical exposition of the ebb and flow in world Literature during the 19th century BY GEORGE BRANDES In six volumes. New edition. Illustrated. Gilt tops, 8vo. Each $2.00. The set, $7.50 The aim of this volume is to show how essentially American literature has been an outgrowth of American life. Too many text-books treat it in one of its aspects only— as a branch of the parent literature of England. Miss Bates sees it as an individual expression of an independent nation. The development of literature and the material and political progress of the country are happily interwoven. The subject-matter is divided into six chapters: "The Colonial Period," "The Revolutionary Period," "The National Era," "Its General Aspects," "Its Poetry," "Its Prose Thought," "Its Prose Fiction." The book contains a large number of portraits. CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE BY SELDEN L. WHITCOMB, A.M. This work is built upon the scheme of Ryland's Chronological Outlines of English Literature, but on account of the briefer history of American literature the author has been able to enlarge his list and to broaden his standard. BY WILBUR L. CROSS, Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University 329 pp., 12mo, $1.50 An outline of the course of English fiction from Arthurian romance to Stevenson, indicating especially in the earlier chapters, Continental sources and tributaries. It is divided for convenience into the following_chapters: 1. From Arthurian Romance to Richardson; 2. The Eighteenth Century Realists; 3. From Humphrey Clinker to Waverley; 4. Nineteenth Century Romance; 5. The Realistic Reaction; 6. The Return to Realism; 7. The Psychological Novel; 8. The Contemporary Novel. Immediately after the main text is a list of novels which show the general progress of English fiction, this being followed in turn by bibliographical and other notes for the use of more advanced students. Writing from a thorough knowledge of the subject, the author maintains a fine sense of proportion and judgment in his estimation of the various writers treated. The book is now recognized as the standard text for historical courses on the novel. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL BY FRANCIS HOVEY STODDARD Professor of English Literature in New York University 235 pp., 12mo, $1.50 In this work Professor Stoddard undertakes the study of five specific kinds of expression in the fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the novel of personality, the novel of history, the novel of romance, the novel of purpose, and the novel of problem, showing, as far as it is possible to show in great movements of this kind, a certain evolution therein. The author says, "This law of tendency is, in general, that the depiction of the objective, carnal, precedes, in every form of expression of which we can have records, the consideration of the internal, the subjective, the spiritual." A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY By W. J. COURTHOPE, M.A., D.LITT., 6 vols., 8vo. Each, $3.25 Vol. I. Middle Ages: Influence of the Roman Empire-The Encyclopædic Education of the Church-The Feudal System. 474 PP. Vol. II. The Renaissance and the Reformation: Influence of the Court and the Universities. 429 pp. Vol. IV. Development and Decline of the Poetic Drama: Influence of the Court and the People. Vol. III. The Intellectual Conflict of the 17th Century: Decadent Influence of the Feudal Monarchy; Growth of the National Genius. 533 pp. 476 pp. Vol. V. The Constitutional Compromise of the 18th Century: Effects of the Classical Renaissance; Its Zenith and Decline; The Early Romantic Renaissance. Vol. VI. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry: Effects of the French Revolution. 471 pp. 464 pp. THE THEORY OF POETRY IN ENGLAND 319 pp., 12mo, $1.25 This volume covers the period from the middle of the sixteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, taking up the historical development of the general theory of poetry and the theoretical principles of the various schools of poetry and criticism. |