FKANCIS BACON 



Born . . . London, January 22, 1560-1 

 Died , Highgate, April 9, 1626 



The l Advancement of Learning was first pub 

 lished in 1605, and New Atlantis in 1627. In 

 * The World s Classics they were first published 

 together in 1906, with a preface by Thomas Case, then 

 President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and 

 reprinted in 1913, 1929, and 1938. 



PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN 



