IV. BOOKS USEFUL TO STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

1. Abbott's Shaksperian Grammar. $1.50.

2. Adams's Dictionary of English Literature. $2.00.

3. Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. $22.50.

4. American Men of Letters Series. Io vols. ready. $1.25.

5. Arvine's Cyclopædia of Literary Anecdotes.

6. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. $3.00.

7. Bartlett's Shakspeare Phrase-Book. $3.00.

8. Bascom's Philosophy of English Literature. $1.75.

9. Botta's (Mrs.) Handbook of Universal Literature. $2.00.

10. Brewer's Reader's Handbook. $3.50.

II. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. $2.50.

12. Chaucer for Children. $1.00.

13. Clarke's (Mrs.) Concordance to Shakspeare. $9.00.

14. Cleveland's Concordance to Milton. $2.50.

15. Duyckinck's Cyclopædia of American Literature. $10.00.

16. Dowden's Primer of Shakspeare. 50 cents.

17. English Men of Letters Series. 40 or more vols., in paper. 15 to 25

cents each.

18. Fields's Yesterdays with Authors. $2.00.

19. Furness's Concordance to Shakspeare's Poems. $4.00.

20. Green's Short History of the English People. $1.75.

21. Harris's (Miss) Pleasant Authors for Young People. $1.00. 22. Higginson's Short Studies of American Authors. 50 cents. 23. Hudson's English in Schools. 25 cents.

24. Homes and Haunts of our Elder (American) Poets. $5.00. 25. Maertz' Miscellaneous Questions in English Literature. $1.00 each.

26. Lowell's My Study Windows. $2.00.

27. Lowell's Among my Books. (2 series.) $2.00.

28. Mitchell's (Ik Marvel) About Old Story-Tellers. $1.25.

With Key.

29. Morris's Half-Hours with Best American Authors. 4 vols. $6.

30. Morris's Half-Hours with American History. 2 vols. $3.00.

31. Pierce's Dickens Dictionary. $2.00.

32. Porter's Books and Reading. $2.00.

33. Richardson's (Mrs.) Stories from Old English Poetry. $1.00.

34. Rogers's (Miss) Waverley Dictionary. $1.50.

35. Sanborn's (Miss) Home Pictures of the English Poets. $1.50. 36. Scoones's Four Centuries of English Letters. $2.00

37. Stedman's Victorian Poets. $2.00.

38. Stedman's Poets of America. $2.25.

39. Stoddard's Poets' Homes. $1.70.

40. Wheeler's Dictionary of Noted Names of Fiction. $2.50.

41. Wheeler's Familiar Allusions. $2.50.

42. Wheeler's Who Wrote It. $2.00.

V.-INEXPENSIVE EDITIONS OF THE ENGLISH CLASSICS.

Intended especially for School Purposes.

1. Macmillan's Clarendon Press Series includes the well-known Globe Library, Spenser, Scott, etc., price $1.25 each; the best of Shakspeare's Plays, 35 to 50 cents each; and the various annotated texts of the great classics, as Spenser, Chaucer, etc., various prices. The volumes of this series are edited by the ablest educators and teachers of England.

2. Rolfe's English Classics. - This excellent series includes Gray's Select Poems, Goldsmith's Select Poems, Milton's Minor Poems, and a school edition of Shakspeare's Plays in forty volumes. Illustrated, cloth, 56 cents per volume; paper, 40 cents per volume.

3. Rolfe's Students' Edition of Standard Poetry includes annotated editions of four volumes of Tennyson's Poems; Scott's Lady of the Lake, Marmion, Lay of the Last Minstrel; Byron's Childe Harold; several volumes of Robert Browning's Select Poems. Copies for examination, 42 cents each.

4. Hudson's English Authors. — These books include most of Shakspeare's Plays, bound in paper; paper editions of the Select Essays of Goldsmith, Addison, and Bacon; and Select Poems by Burns, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Wordsworth, etc. Price, 30 cents each.

5. Sprague's Annotated English Classics include Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-Book; Milton's Lycidas; Books I. and II. of Paradise Lost; and Shakspeare's Hamlet. Price, about 50 cents each.

6. Harper's Half-Hour Series. In this series are found the principal Essays of Macaulay; Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare, 2 vols.; Lawrence's Primers of English and American Literature, 4 vols.; Sir Roger de Coverley, with notes; Scott's best poems, printed separately; Goldsmith's Plays; Goldsmith's Poems; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; and many others of a miscellaneous character. Price, 25 cents each.

7. Clark and Maynard's English Classic Series. - Sixty-five numbers of this series have been published. The series includes both the works of the old English writers and those of modern classic authors. Price, 12 cents each, or $1.20 per dozen.

8. Ginn's Classics for Children. - Twenty-five numbers already issued, including editions of Robinson Crusoe, Scott's Ivanhoe, Talisman, Guy Mannering, Quentin Durward, Lady of the Lake, Marmion, etc. Price, from 25 to 40 cents each.

9. Riverside Literature Series. lections from standard American authors. Price, 15 cents each.

Thirty-two numbers published. Se

10. Modern Classics. -School edition. Selections from the best English and American authors. Thirty-three numbers published. Price, 40 cents each.

11. Rolfe's English Classics for School Reading. — Edited with notes, illustrated, for school use. The initial volume of the series, "Tales of Chivalry and the Olden Time" (selections from works of Sir Walter Scott), just published. Price, 36 cents each.

NOTES.

CHAPTER II.

LONGFELLOW'S WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Page 8.

THIS fine ballad was written nearly fifty years ago. Longfellow in his private diary under date of Dec. 17, 1839, says, "News of horrible shipwrecks on the coast. Twenty bodies washed ashore near Gloucester, one lashed to a piece of wreck. There is a reef called Norman's Woe, where many of these took place, among others the schooner Hesperus.' I must write a ballad upon this." Nearly two weeks afterwards, as the poet says, one night he sat till twelve o'clock by his fire, smoking, when suddenly it came into his mind to write the ballad, which he accordingly did. "The clock was striking three," says the diary, "when I finished the last stanza. I then went to bed, and fell asleep. I feel pleased with the ballad. It hardly cost me an effort. It did not come into my mind by lines, but by stanzas."

SOUTHEY'S INCHCAPE ROCK. Page 16.

The celebrated and dangerous sunken reef known as the Inch Cape, or Bell Rock, is in the German Ocean, on the northern side of the entrance of the Firth of Forth, and about twelve miles from land. According to an old tradition, an abbot of Aberbrothock placed a bell here, as a warning to sailors, which was cut loose by a Dutch rover, who, as a retribution for this mischievous act, was afterwards wrecked upon the same rock. This is the story which is told by Southey in his well-known ballad of “The Inchcape Rock."

"In old times upon the saide rock there was a bell fixed upon a timber, which rang continually, being moved by the sea, giving notice to saylers of the danger. This bell was put there and maintained by the abbot of Aberbrothock; but, being taken down by a sea-pirate, a yeare thereafter he perished upon the same rocke, with ship and goodes, in the righteous judgement of God."- STODDART'S Remarks on Scotland.

Robert Southey, who wrote "The Inchcape Rock," was born in England in 1774, was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards studied two years at Oxford. He married the sister of Coleridge, and lived in the Lake district, a companion and friend of Wordsworth the poet. Southey's entire life was devoted to literary pursuits. His industry, both as a student and writer, was unparalleled in our literature. He wrote several long poems which are almost forgotten. His shorter poems are still popular. His most popular prose work, the Life of Lord Nelson, is universally accepted as an English classic, and is still read by young people. Southey was appointed poetlaureate in 1813, and lived until 1843 to enjoy the honor. At last his overworked brain gave way, and he became an imbecile during the last three years of his life. As a man, Southey's life was without a stain. His cheerful disposition, scholarly habits, and a keen sense of honor, won for him universal respect and esteem.

William Wordsworth, whom Lowell calls "the apostle of the imagination," was born in England in 1770. He was sent to an English university. He neglected the regular studies, but devoted himself to the classics. In his youth he was a stanch republican; but in later years he became a pronounced conservative, opposing every just scheme of political reform in his own country. He determined to become a poet, and endured a life of self-denial to accomplish this end. Fortunately he inherited some property which enabled him to live comfortably. He settled at last in a place called Rydal Mount, with which his name will always be associated. He was happily married, and lived to be eighty years old, having passed a happy and honored old age. "I do not know," says Sir Walter Scott, "a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius."

Wordsworth was a voluminous writer of poetry. He is not a popular poet. His was the genius of a great philosopher. Many of his shorter poems are simple and easily understood. His longer poems are only mastered after patient study. His masterpiece is The Excursion, a philosophical poem. As Stopford A. Brooke says, "Wordsworth was the greatest of the English poets of this century; greatest not only as a poet, but as a philosopher."