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ion, with _The Idyls of the King_ arranged in order. With numerous Illustrations and Three Characteristic Portraits. 8vo, Paper, $1,00; Cloth, $1.50. PRIMERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE: _The Romance Period._--_The Classical Period._--_Modern Period._ By EUGENE LAWRENCE. 3 vols., 32mo, Paper, 25 cents each; Cloth, 40 cents each. MISS MITFORD'S RECOLLECTIONS. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places, and People. By MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50. THE FRIENDSHIPS OF MISS MITFORD, as Recorded in Letters from her Literary Correspondents. Edited by the Rev. A. G. L'ESTRANGE. 12mo, Cloth, $2.00; 4to, Paper, 25 cents. LAMBS' TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. In 2 vols. Vol. I. Comedies. Vol. II. Tragedies. By CHARLES and MARY LAMB. 32mo, Paper, 25 cents each; Cloth, 40 cents each. MACAULAY'S LIFE AND LETTERS. By his Nephew, GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN, M.P. With Portrait on Steel. Complete in 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth. Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $5.00; Sheep, $6.00; Half Calf, $9.50. Popular Edition, 1 vol., 12mo, Cloth, $1.75. FROUDE'S CARLYLE. Thomas Carlyle. A History of the First Forty Years of his Life (1795-1835). By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2 volumes in one, 12mo, Cloth, $1.00. Also, in 2 vols., 4to, Paper, 15 cents per volume. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry. Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry. Edited by EPES SARGENT. Large 8vo, nearly 1000 pages; Containing nearly 2000 Selections from over 750 Authors; Arranged Chronologically: with a Biographical Sketch, and a Critical Estimate of each Author. Illuminated Cloth, with Colored Edges, $4.50; Half Leather, $5.00. Mr. Sargent has shown the knowledge and the skill that might have been expected from so well-read and so accomplished a writer; he has shown a catholicity as well as a sureness of taste; he has proceeded on what seems to me the true principle of arrangement, that of chronology; he has made his selections as full as he could consistently with the multitude to be selected from, neither rejecting old ones because they were old, nor accepting new ones because they were new, but earnestly aiming in both cases to represent the great body of British and American poets at their best, and their best only; and he has felt the natural demand of its readers for information concerning it and its authors--an imperative demand which he has fulfilled with a thoroughness that is honorable to his
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