LITERATURES OF THE WORLD 



Edited by EDMUND GOSSE, Hon. M. A. 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. 



of 



A succession of attractive volumes dealing with the history of literature in each country. 

 Each volume will contain about three hundred and fifty i2mo pages, and will treat an entire 

 literature, giving a uniform impression of its development, history, and character, and of its re- 

 lation to previous and contemporary work. 



Each, i2mo, cloth, $i.so. 



NO IV READY. 



Spanish Literature. 



By James Fitz Maurice-Kelly, Member of 

 the Spanish Academy- 



" This is an excellent and model handbook. It is treated with 

 perspective and proportion ; it is comprehensive, clear, concise, 

 yet not dry as dust ; the judgments are judicial, impartial, and 

 well on the hither side of exaggeration ; the style is good, lucid, 

 and interesting. ... It is a work well done by one who has a 

 thorough grip of his subject, and has thought out its essentials 

 before he set pen to paper." — London Academy. 



LL. D., Keeper of Printed Books in 



Professor of Greek in the University 



Italian Literature. 



By Richard Garnett, C. B. 

 the British Museum. 



" Dr. Garnett's book is so excellent, in view of the ground it covers, so critical, so instruct- 

 ive, that, when one finishes it, it is with regret that there was not more of it." — New York 

 Mail and Express. 



Ancient Greek Literature. 



Bv Gilbert Murray, M. A., 

 of Glasgow. 



" Mr. Murray's style is lucid and spirited, and, besides the fund of information, he imparts to 

 his subject such fresh and vivid interest that students will find in these pages a new impulse for 

 more profound and exhaustive study of this greatest and most immortal of all the world's 

 literatures. "—Philadelphia Public Ledger. 



French Literature. 



By Edward Dowden, D. C. L., LL. D., Professor of English 

 Literature at the University of Dublin. 



"This is a history of literature as histories of literature should be written. ... A living 

 voice, speaking to us with gravity and enthusiasm about the writers of many ages, and of being 

 a human voice always. Hence this book can be read with pleasure even by those for whom a 

 history has in itself little attraction." — London Saturday Review. 



Modern English Literature. 



By the Editor. 



"The fact that Edmund Gosse is the author of ' Modern English Literature' is a circum- 

 stance that insures the most delightful qualities for the work, and surely, of all men, Mr. Gosse 

 is the best fitted for the undertaking. . . . This critic's manner is so easy, his delivery so limpid, 

 that one forgets it is only by flashes he is reading the message of the centuries." — Chicago Even- 

 ing Post. 



IN PREPARATION. 

 AMERICAN. By Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cornell University. 



GERMAN. By Dr. C. H. Herford, Professor of English Literature in the University of 

 Wales. 



HUNGARIAN. By Dr. Zoltan BeoTHY, Professor of Hungarian Literature at the Univer- 

 sity of Budapest. 



LATIN. By Dr. Arthur Woolgar Verrall, Fellow and Senior Tutor of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. 



JAPANESE. By W. G. Aston, C. M. G., M. A., late Acting Secretary at the British Lega- 

 tion at Tokio. 



MODERN SCANDINAVIAN. By Dr. Georg Brandes, of Copenhagen. 

 SANSCRIT. By A. A. Macdonell, M. A., Deputy Boden Professor of Sanscrit at the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford. 



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