12 BLANCHARD & LEA'S YVBLICATlO^S.—iEducatioJial Wor^s.) 

 NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION— (Now Ready.) 



OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 



BY THOMAS B. SHAT\^ 



Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, St. Petersburg 

 SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. 



WITH A SKETCH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. 



BY HENRY T. TUCKERMAN, 



Author of" Characteristics of Literature," '-The Optimist," &c. 



In one large and handsome volume, royal 12mo., extra cloth, of about 500 pages. 



The object of this work is to present to the student a history of the progress 

 of English Literature. To accomplish this, the author has followed its course 

 from the earliest times to the present age, seizing upon the more prominent 

 *' Schools of Writing," tracing their causes and effects, and selecting the more 

 celebrated authors as subjects for brief biographical and critical sketches, ana- 

 lyzing their best works, and thus presenting to the student a definite view of the 

 development of the language and literature, with succinct descriptions of those 

 books and men of which no educated person should be ignorant. He has thus 

 not only supplied the acknowledged want of a manual on this subject, but by 

 the liveliness and power of his style, the thorough knowledge he displays of his 

 topic, and the variety of his subjects, he has succeeded in producing a most 

 agreeable reading-book, which will captivate the mind of the scholar, and re- 

 lieve the monotony of drier studies. 



This work having attracted much attention, and been introduced into a large 

 number of our best academies and colleges, the publishers, in answering the call 

 for a new edition, have endeavored to render it still more appropriate for the 

 student of this country, by adding to it a sketch of American literature. This 

 has been prepared by Mr, Tuckerman, on the plan adopted by Mr. Shaw, and 

 the volume is again presented with full conhdence that it will be found of great 

 utility as a text-book, wherever this subject forms part of the educational course; 

 or as an introduction to a systematic plan of reading. 



From Prof. R. P. Dunn, Brown University, April 22, IS52. 

 I had already determined to adopt it as the principal book of reference in my depart- 

 ment. This is the first term in which it has been u.«ed here ; but from the trial which I 

 have now made of it, I have every reason to congratulate myself on my selection of it 

 as a text-book. 



From the Rev. W. G. T. Shedd, Professor of English Literature in the University of Vt. 

 I take great pleasure in saying that it supplies a want that has long existed of a brief 

 history of Englisii literature, written in the right method and spirit, to serve as an intro- 

 duction to the critical study of it. 1 shall recommend the hook to my classes. 



From James Shannon, President of Bacon College, Ky. 

 I have read about one-half of " Shaw's Outlines," and so far I am more than pleased 

 ■with the work. I concur with you fully in the opinion that it supplies a want long felt 

 in our higher educational institutes of a criiical history of English literature, occupying 

 a reasonable space, and written in a manner to interest and attract the attention of the 

 student. I sincerely desire that it may obtain, as it deserves, an extensive circulation. 



HANDBOOK OF MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE. 



ritish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Rus- 

 sian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. With a full Biographical and 

 Chronological Index. By Mrs. Foster. In one large royal 12mo. volume, 

 extra cloth. Uniform with " Shaw's Outlines o {English Literature." 



