handbook, dealing in a lucid style and in a highly
critical spirit with one of the most important periods in the history of
English literature."--_Westminster Review._

THE AGE OF DRYDEN

"This scholarly little volume from the learned pen of Dr. Garnett....
Within the limits of his space Dr. Garnett surveys the several
departments of literature in this period with singular comprehensiveness,
broad sympathy, and fine critical sagacity."--_Times._

"The series which Professor Hales is editing aims at being that very
difficult and important something between the text-book for schools and
the gracefully allusive literary essay. Dr. Garnett has done his part of
the work admirably. Most readable is his book, written with a fine sense
of proportion, and containing many independent judgements, yet even, so
far as minor names and dates and facts are concerned, complete enough
for all save a searcher after minutiae."--_Bookman._

"Though planned on the scale of the manual, this book is actually the
first attempt worth naming to grasp in one separate review the
literature of the last forty years of the seventeenth century, a time
which, as Dr. Garnett well says, 'with all its defects, had a faculty
for producing masterpieces.' Dr. Garnett's name is a warrant for his
acquaintance not only with the masterpieces but with much besides, and
with more than all that need be named in the kind of survey he
undertakes."--_Manchester Guardian._

THE AGE OF POPE

"A 'handbook' is scarcely a fair description of so readable and
companionable a volume, which aims not only at giving accurate
information, but at directing the reader's steps 'through a country
exhaustless in variety and interest.'"--_Spectator._

"The biographical portion of Mr. Dennis's book is really admirable. The
accuracy of the details and the knowledge exhibited by the author of the
social and political life of the period show how thoroughly he has
mastered his subject."--_Westminster Review._

"Mr. Dennis writes freely and simply, and with a thorough knowledge of
the period with which he deals, and goes straight to the point without
revelling in circumambient fancies. The result of this is that in 250
pages of good print we have as concise a history of Queen Anne
literature as we could wish."--_Cambridge Review._

"An excellent little volume."--_Athenaeum._

THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE

"Both volumes are excellently done, with knowledge, judgement, and a
pleas