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ENGLISH LYRICS. Selected and arranged by W. E. 

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LYRA FRIVOLA. By A. D. Godley, M.A., Fellow of Mag- 

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 A little volume of occasional verse, chiefly academic. 



Gbe Works of Sbaftespeare 



General Editor, Edward Dowden, Litt. D. 

 Messrs. Methuen have in preparation an Edition of Shakespeare in 

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HAMLET. Edited by Edward Dowden. Demy Svo. 3*. bd. 



History and Biography 



THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 



Arranged and Edited with Notes by Sidney Colvin. Demy Svo. 

 2 vols. 25^. net. 



These highly important and interesting volumes contain the correspondence of 

 Robert Louis Stevenson from his eighteenth year to almost the last day of his life, 

 selected and edited, with notes and introductions, by Mr. Sidney Colvin, his most 

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 addressed partly to his family and private friends, and partly to such well known 

 living or lately deceased men of letters as Mr. Hamerton, Mr. J. A. Symonds, 

 Mr. Henry James, Mr. James Payn, Dr. Conan Doyle. Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. 

 Edmund Gosse, Mr. F. Locker-Lampson, Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse, Mr. Andrew 

 Lang, Mr. W. E. Henley, and the Editor himself. They present a vivid and 

 brilliant autobiographical picture of the mind and character of the distinguished 

 author. It was originally intended that a separate volume containing a full 

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 letters, and form part of the work : but the publication of this has for various 

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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF SIR JOHN EVERETT 

 MILLAIS, President of the Royal Academy. By his Son, J. G. 

 Millais. With nearly 300 Illustrations, of which 9 are in photo- 

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An edition limited to 350 copies will also be printed. This will 

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In these two magnificent volumes is contained the authoritative biography of the 

 most distinguished and popular painter of the last half of the century. They 

 contain the story of his extraordinary boyhood, of his early struggles and 

 triumphs, of the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, now first given to 

 the world in authentic detail, of the painting of most of his famous pictures, of his 

 friendships with many of the most distinguished men of the day in art, letters, 

 and politics, of his home life, and of his sporting tastes. There are a large 



