LITEftATUfiES OF THE WORLD. 



Edited by EDMUND 60SSE, Hon. M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



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A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE. 



By K. Waliszewski, author of "The Romance of an Empress." 



M. Waliszewski's brilliant work in iiis " Romance of an Empress" has gained for tiie author the favor 

 of American readers. Many of these readers, however, may be unaware of the extent of M. Waliszewski's 

 attainnients, which have been so abundantly demonstrated in his literary criticisms and historical work 

 that his selection as the historian of Russian literature in the admirably edited Literatures of the World 

 Series is a pre-eminently fitting one. In this volume he has dealt with a theme comparatively little known 

 and full of interest. From the biliiii, or oral literature of Old Russia, and the Ostromir Codex, the earliest 

 specimen of written Russian literature, down to the poets and novelists of the later nineteenth century, 

 there are presented a series of peculiar and fascinating literary epochs whicii can only be set forth by a 

 writer like M. Waliszewski, who is familiar with tiie developments of Russian history and imbued with 

 the spirit of a people frequently misinterpreted and misunderstood. His study of Russian culture and 

 Russian literary expression forms a lucid, significant, and most important critical history, wiiich derives 

 a peculiar interest from its elucidations of manners, customs, and life in general. 



A HISTORY OF BOHEMIAN LITERATURE. 



By Francis, Count Lutzow, author of "Bohemia: An Historical Sketch." 



" An erudite and comprehensive exposition. . . . There is a lack of available information upon this 

 subject, and Count Lutzow's volume is of special value and interest." — Philadelphia Ledger. 



JAPANESE LITERATURE. 



By W. G. Aston, C. M. G., D. Lit., late Japanese Secretary, H. M. Legation, Tokio. 



"A volume of unique erudition, wide research, clear discrimination, and excellent design." — Sir 

 Eduiit /Irnold, in Literature. 



SPANISH LITERATURE. 



By James Fitzmaurice-Kei.ly, member of the Spanish Academy. 



" This is an excellent and model handbook. It is treated with perspective and proportion ; it is com- 

 prehensive, clear, concise, yet not dry as dust." — London Academy. 



ITALIAN LITERATURE. 



By Richard Garnett, C. B., LL. D., formerly Keeper of Printed Books in the 

 British Museum. 



"It is written with insight and appreciation, with enthusiasm, yet without lack of poise, and with 

 a plentiful equipment of sound scholarship." — Ne-ii) York Times. 



ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE. 



By Gilbert Murray, M. A., Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow. 



" As an introduction to the study of some considerable portion of Greek literature in English transla- 

 tions it will be found of the very highest usefulness." — Boston Herald. 



FRENCH LITERATURE. 



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

 the University of Dublin. 



"Can be held in the hand and read aloud with pleasure as a literary treat ; by an expert in style, 

 master of charming words that come and go easily, and of other literatures that serve for illustrations." — 

 The Critic, New York. 



MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE. 



By Edmund Gosse, Hon. M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



" A really useful account of the whole process of evolution in English letters — an account based upon 

 a keen sense at once of the unity of his subject and of the rhythm of its ebb and flow, and illumined by 

 an unexampled felicity in hitting off the leading characteristics of individual writers. "—London Athenarum, 



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