A Guide to the Great Temple of English 



Literature. 

 In Tuo Volumes, crown Svo, cloth gilt, 12s. ; half calf, 175., 



HALF-HOURS WITH THE BEST 

 AUTHORS. 



With Critical and Biographical Notices. 



BY CHARLES KNIGHT. 



Illustrated with 16 Steel Portraits and 52 Wood Engravings. 

 * # * This book is a Compendium of English Literature. It 

 contains three hundred extracts of the best efforts of our great 

 standard authors. The student finds a taste of every quality and 

 a specimen of every style. At a glance he can obtain some idea 

 of the subject. Such books as these are the true foundations of 

 that knowledge which renders men celebrated andjamous. 



In Two Volumes, demy Svo, price 95. cloth; half calf, 155., 

 The People's Edition of 



HALF-HOURS WITH THE BEST 

 AUTHORS. 



SELECTED AND EDITED BY CHARLES KNIGHT. 

 With 1 6 Steel Portraits. 



In One Volume, demy Svo, cloth, 5$. , half calf extra, 8s., 



HALF-HOURS OF ENGLISH 

 HISTORY. 



SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY CHARLES KNIGHT. 



Forming a Companion Volume to the " Half-Hours with the 



Best Authors." 



Contains the choicest historical extracts from upwards of fifty 

 standard authors, including BURKE, PALGRAVE, GUIZOT, SHERI- 

 DAN KNOWLES, THIERRY, H. TAYLOR, REV. JAMES WHITE, 

 CHARLES KNIGHT, G. L. CRAIK, LANDOR, HUME, KEATS, 

 HALLAM, SOUTHEY, SHAKSPEARE, FROISSART, SIR WALTER 

 SCOTT, HALL, BARANTE, LORD BACON, CAVENDISH, BISHOP 

 BURNET, REV. H. H. MILMAN, WORDSWORTH, LORD MACAU- 

 LAY. Is now issued, carefully printed, in a complete volume, 

 paged throughout, with a general Index. 



The articles are chiefly selected so as to afford a succession of 

 graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged, from 

 the consideration that the portions of History upon which general 

 readers delight to dwell are those which tell some story which is 

 complete in itself, or furnish some illustration which has a separate 

 as well as a general interest. 



