CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 

 Volume VIII 



PRESS NOTICES 



Standard. The Master of Peterhouse and his colleague, Mr Waller, are to 

 be congratulated on the steady progress of the Cambridge History oj 

 ■ English Literature. The first volume was published in 1907 and now 

 we are confronted with the eighth. They have differed considerably in 

 literary merit, but that is perhaps inevitable when the services of a 

 syndicate of writers have been called into requisition. It is a pleasure 

 to be able to add that the present instalment of a great task is marked 

 by distinction of style and critical discrimination both as regards men 

 and movements in English letters.... The whole volume is alive with 

 interest and gives many clues to the interpretation of the wonderful 

 march of thought in almost every direction "which rendered memorable 

 the period from the Restoration to the death of William III. The 

 volume is equipped with admirable bibliographies, a table of principal 

 dates, and an exhaustive index. It deserves the welcome which students 

 reserve for a really important contribution to literary criticism. 



Daily Telegraph. The eighth volume of this fine work deals with "The Age 

 of Dryden," a period... that to the student is full of deep interest. ...The 

 new volume of the History is in every way worthy of the earlier ones — 

 each successive instalment the more fully impresses upon us the valuable 

 work which Dr A. W. Ward and Mr A. R. Waller are doing. When 

 completed, the Cambridge History of English Literature will be some- 

 thing far more than a work of reference, it will be at once a body of 

 authoritative criticism and exposition for students and a work in which 

 every reader with a true liking for literature will find inexhaustible delight, 

 for the "readability" of the volumes is one of their marked character- 

 istics. 



Scotsman. In its eighth volume the Cambridge History of English Literature, 

 a work which has already established its position as the best existing 

 academic text-book of its important subject, goes on its way with 

 conspicuous success, following out in the marshalling of new material 

 the same plan as has proved so effective in preceding volumes. The 

 bibliographies, which form so serviceable a part of this history for 

 readers who wish to attack original texts in the best possible form, have 

 never been better done than in the present volume, the bibliography of 

 Dryden by Mr H. B. Wheatley being especially noticeable.... The volume 

 is a full and interesting compendium of what modern learning has to 

 teach about the progress of English letters in the forty years that followed 

 the Restoration. 



Contemporary Review. The volume of the Cambridge History of E?iglish 

 Literature just issued, entitled The Age of Dryden, is one of curious 

 fascination, and has a peculiar value to the student of literature, treating 

 as it does of a period wiih which students are less familiar than they 

 might he, a period which represents transition rather than decline, a 

 period in which we see the awakening of reality in thought accompanied 

 by the decay of reality in literature. It is these transition periods that 

 are of chief importance to the student of literary evolution. 



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