in Blank Verse the Jests and Repartees of all the Attendants in a funeral Procession. But there is one Argument in Favour of Sentimental Comedy which will keep it on the Stage in spite of all that can be said against it. It is, of all others, the most easily written. Those abilities that can hammer out a Novel, are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental Comedy. It is only sufficient to raise the Characters a little, to deck out the Hero with a Ribbon, or give the Heroine a Title; then to put an Insipid Dialogue, without Character or Humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of Scenes, make a Pathetic Scene or two, with a sprinkling of tender Melancholy Conversation through the whole, and there is no doubt but all the Ladies will cry, and all the Gentlemen applaud. Humour at present seems to be departing from the Stage, and it will soon happen, that our Comic Players will have nothing left for it but a fine Coat and a Song. It depends upon the Audience whether they will actually drive those poor Merry Creatures from the Stage or sit at a Play as gloomy as at the Tabernacle. It is not easy to recover an - art when once lost; and it would be but a just punishment - that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished Humour from the Stage, we should ourselves be deprived of the art of Laughing. A LIST OF THE 983 VOLUMES Anonymous works are given under titles. Inthologies, Dictionaries, etc., are arranged at the end of the list. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 624 Inson's Voyages, 510 Mexico, 664 Aristophanes' Acharnians, etc., 344 Bates's Naturalist on the Amazon, Frogs, etc., 516 Aristotle's Ethics, 547 دو Politics, 605 Poetics, and Demetrius Armour's Fall of the Nibelungs, 312 Gudrun, 880 Arnold's (Matthew) Essays, 115 Poems, 334 Study of Celtic Literature, etc., 458 Aucassin and Nicolette, 497 Augustine's (St.) Confessions, 200 Aurelius' (Marcus) Meditations, 9 bility, 21 Pride and Prejudice, 22 446 Baxter's (Richard) Autobiography, Beaumont and Fletcher's Selected Beaumont's (Mary) Joan Seaton, 597 Belt's Naturalist in Nicaragua, 561 783 Björnson's Plays, 625, 696 Northanger Abbey, and Blackwell's Pioneer Work for Bacon's Essays, 10 Women, 667 Mansfield Park, 23 Emma, 24 Persuasion, 25 Advancement of Learning, 719 Bagehot's Literary Studies, 520, 521 Ballantyne's Coral Island, 245 Borrow's Wild Wales, 49 Martin Rattler, 246 دو Lavengro, 119 " Blake's Poems and Prophecies, 792 Reflections on the French Burnet's History of His Own Times, Burney's (Fanny) Evelina, 352 Diary, A Selec- Burns's Poems and Songs, 94 Burton's (Robert) Anatomy of Dana's Two Years before the Mast, Melancholy, 886-8 Butler's Analogy of Religion, 90 Erewhon Revisited, 881 Butler's The Way of All Flesh, 895 " Letters, 931 Sartor Resartus, 278 Essays, 703, 704 Reminiscences, 875 Carroll's (Lewis) Alice in Wonder- land, etc., 836 Castiglione's The Courtier, 807 Cervante's Don Quixote, 385, 386 588 Voyage of the Beagle, 10. Captain Singleton, 74 De Joinville's Memoirs of the de la Mare's Stories and Poems, 940 De Quincey's Lake Poets, 163 دو Opium-Eater, 223 etc., 609 De Retz (Cardinal), Memoirs of, 735, 736 Descartes' Discourse on Method, 570" ckens's Barnaby Rudge, 76 وو " " " Tale of Two Cities, 102 Great Expectations, 234 Sketches by Boz, 237 land. 291 Edwin Drood, 725 Reprinted Pieces, 744 sraeli's Coningsby, 535 odge's Hans Brinker, 620 onne's Poems, 867 ostoevsky's Crime and Punish- The House of the Dead, 533 ,, Letters from the Underworld, etc., 654 ,, The Idiot, 682 ,, Poor Folk, and The Gambler, 711 ,, The Brothers Karamazov, 802, 803 Jonathon Wild, and the Journal of a Voyage to Finlay's Byzantine Empire, 33 [185 Greece under the Romans, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 808 [969 Salammbo, 869 Ford's Gatherings from Spain, 152 972 Fox's (Charles James) Selected 967 Francis' (Saint) The Little Flowers, [447 French Mediaeval Romances 557 Henry VIII, 372-4 Fair, 320 Igeworth's Castle Rackrent, etc., Edward VI, 375 History of Queen Eliza- beth's Reign, 583-7 Galsworthy's Country House, 917 Faculty, 263 Gaskell's Cranford, 83 |