e like Mr. Seccombe's
arrangement. There is a capital introduction, solid and grave rather
than brilliant, on which the student may stand in confidence before he
dives off into the stream of his tutor's survey. Briefly, we have here a
thorough, almost encyclopaedic, review of a great literary
period--stimulating to the younger student, and to his elder refreshing
by its perception."--_Outlook._

"This book is one of the best of its kind, and we heartily recommend it
to our readers."--_Journal of Education._

"The young student could not read a better book to get a comprehensive
and yet detailed account of the literary history of the latter half of
the eighteenth century."--_Morning Post._

THE AGE OF WORDSWORTH

"It is an admirable little work all the way through and one which the
ripest students of the period may read with interest and
profit."--_Guardian._

"The desiderated text-book of the period 1798 to 1830 A.D. is no longer
to seek. More than that, it has been written by the one Englishman most
competent to deal with it. Whatever Professor Herford does he does well;
but he has given us nothing at once so good and so helpful as this
book."--_University Correspondent._

"The introductory essay on Romanticism in our literature is an admirable
piece of work, full of suggestive thought, but Professor Herford is at
his best--and a very fine best it is--in his brief summaries of the
lives and works of individual writers. His Cobbett, his Lamb, and
others that might be instanced, are veritable gems of biographical and
critical compression presented with true literary finish."--_Literary
World._

"A book which is remarkable for freshness and distinction of style,
philosophic grasp of first principles, and critical insight.... When we
add that the book is also conspicuous for delicacy of literary
appreciation and ripe judgement, both of men and movements, we have said
enough to show that we consider its claims are unusual."--_Speaker._

THE AGE OF TENNYSON

"A capital little handbook of modern English literature."--_Times._

"An instructive and readable manual ... an admirable first text-book on
the subject."--_Scotsman._

"Professor Walker has done his allotted task with singular skill,
wonderful judiciousness, critical insight, adequate knowledge and
mastery of facts, keen discernment of qualities and effectiveness of
grouping.... We have read no review of the whole of the Tennysonian age
so genuinely f