ENGLISH LITERATURE 



The Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by Sir A. W. Ward, 

 Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse, and A. R. Waller, M.A., 

 Peterhouse. Volume X, The Age of "Johnion. 



Royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 562. Price in buckram, 9;. net, in half-morocco, 

 1 5i. net ; to subscribers 7/. (>d. net and 1 2X. 6d. net respectively 



As was hinted by the editors in the Prefatory Note to volume IX, 

 the canvas of English literature grows more and more crowded as the 

 eighteenth century approaches. The present volume is entitled The Age 

 of yohnson, and the contents are as follows : 



Richardson (L. Cazamian). Fielding and Smollett (Harold Child). 

 Sterne, and the Novel of his Times (Professor C. E. Vaughan). The Drama 

 and the Stage (Professor G. Nettleton). Thomson and Natural Description 

 in Poetry (A. Hamilton Thompson). Gray (The late Rev. Duncan C. 

 Tovey). Toung, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson (Professor 

 George Saintsbury). Johnson and Boswell (David Nichol Smith). Oliver 

 Goldsmith (Henry Austin Dobson). The Literary Influence of the Middle 

 Ages (Professor W. P. Ker). Letter-Writers, ' I (H. B. Wheatley) ; 

 //, The Warwickshire Coterie (The Ven. Archdeacon W. H. Hutton). 

 Historians, I, Hume and Modern Historians (The Rev. William Hunt, 

 D.Litt.) ; //, Gil?i>on (Sir A. W. Ward). Philosophers (Professor W. R. 

 Sorley). Divines (The Ven. Archdeacon W. H. Hutton). The Literature 

 of Dissent, 1 660- 1 760 (William Arthur Shaw). Political Literature, 

 1 755-1 775 (C. W. Previt^-Orton). 



"The essay on Gray is a masterpiece of analysis and criticism. ...Mr David Nichol 

 Smith admirably condenses many opinions of the ' Great Cham ' when he says that he 

 had 'a supreme talent for definition,' A better choice of critic for Oliver Goldsmith 

 than Dr Austin Dobson could not have been found ; while the essay on Gibbon by 

 Sir A. W. Ward is notable alike as a study of character and as an assessment of the 

 intrinsic value and wide influence of the 'Decline and Fall. '...The nation has good 

 reason to be proud of the plan and progress of The Cambridge History of English 

 Literature." — Manchester Courier 



Outlines of Victorian Literature. By Hugh Walker, LL.D., and Mrs Hugh 

 Walker. 



Large crown 8vo. pp. viii-l-224. Price 31. net 



Based upon Dr Walker's larger volume. The same general plan has 

 been followed, but the scale reduced and care taken to write as simply as 

 possible ; above all, an attempt has been made to present the authors of 

 the period not merely as writers but as men. The six chapters of the 

 book are entitled Carlyle and the Systematic Thinkers, Poetry, Novels and 

 Novelists, The Historians, Biography and Criticism, The Fragments that 

 Remain. The Outlook recommends it to " all who are about to take up 

 for the first time the serious study of the literature of a truly notable 

 epoch." 



