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CRAIK'S ENGLISH LITERATURE. 

 A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF 



ENGLISH LITERATURE AND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

 FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST. With numerous Specimens. 

 By GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK, LL.D., late Professor of History and 

 English Literature, Queen's College, Belfast. New Edition. In two 

 vols. Royal 8vo. Handsomely bound in cloth, 25/. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



I. THE NORMAN PERIOD The Conquest. 

 II. SECOND ENGLISH Commonly called Semi-Saxon. 



III. THIRD ENGLISH Mixed, or Compound English. 



IV. MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 

 V. THE CENTURY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND 



THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 



VI. THE LATTER PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 

 VII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (a) THE LAST AGE OF THE 

 GEORGES, (b) THE VICTORIAN AGE. 



With numerous Excerpts and Specimens of Style. 



" Anyone who will take the trouble to ascertain the fact, will find how completely 

 even our great poets and other writers of the last generation have already faded from the 

 view of the present, with the most numerous class of the educated and reading public. 

 Scarcely anything is generally read except the publications of the day. YET NOTHING 



IS MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT NO TRUE CULTIVATION CAN BE SO ACQUIRED. This IS 



the extreme case of that entire ignorance of history which has been affirmed, not with 

 more point than truth, to leave a person always a child. . . . The present work 

 combines the HISTORY OF THE LITERATURE with the HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE. 

 The scheme of the course and revolutions of the language which is followed here is 

 extremely simple, and resting not upon arbitrary, but upon natural or real distinctions, 

 gives us the only view of the subject that can claim to be regarded as of a scientific 

 character." Extract from the Authors Preface. 



" Professor Craik has succeeded in making a book more than usually agreeable." 

 The Times. 



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A MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, 



for the use of Colleges, Schools, and Civil Service Examinations. 



Selected from the larger work, by Dr. CRAIK. Tenth Edition. With 



an Additional Section on Recent Literature, by HENRY CRAIK, M.A., 

 Author of " A Life of Swift." 



"A Manual of English Literature from so experienced and well-read a scholar^as 

 Professor Craik needs no other recommendation than the mention of its existence." 

 Spectator. 



" This augmented effort will, we doubt not, be received with decided approbation 

 by those who are entitled to judge, and studied with much profit bv those who want 

 to learn. ... If our young readers will give healthy perusal to Dr. Craik's wojk, 

 they will greatly benefit by the wide and sound views he has placed before them." 



" The preparation of the NEW ISSUE has been entrusted to Mr. HENRY CRAIK, 

 Secretary to the Scotch Education Department, and well known in literary circles 

 as the author of the latest and best Life of Swift. ... A Series of TEST QUESTIONS 

 is added, which must prove of great service to Students studying alone." Glasgow 

 Herald, 



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