42 William Blackwood & Sons' List. 



BLACKWOODS' ENGLISH CLASSICS owrfwMwd. 



Milton Samson Agonistes. 



By E. H. BLAKENEY, M.A., Headmaster, King's School, Ely. 2s. 6d. 



School World. "Everything testifies to excellent scholarship and editorial 

 care The notes are a joy to the critic." 



Byron Selections. 



By Professor J. WIGHT DUFF, D.Litt., Armstrong College, in the University 

 of Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 3s. 6d. 



Academy and Literature. "Nothing has been done perfunctorily; Professor 

 Duff is himself interested in Byron, and passes on to his reader, in consequence, 

 some of the emotion he himself has felt." 



Mr G. K. Chesterton in 'The Daily News.' " Mr Wight Duff has made an 

 exceedingly good selection from the poems of Byron, and added to them a clear 

 and capable introductory study." 



Professor R. Wiilker in 'Englische Studien.' " Wight Duffs Byron wird 

 sicherlich dazu beitragen des Dichters Werke in England mehr zu verbreiten, 

 als dies bisher geschehen ist. Aber auch in Deutschland ist das Buch alien 

 Freunden Byron's warm zu empfehlen." 



HISTORY. 



A Short History of Scotland. 



By ANDREW LANG. Crown 8vo, 5s. net. [In the press. 



Stories of the English. 



By F. With Fifty Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net. 



Scotsman. "If history can be given a form likely to make it palatable to 

 young folks, 'F.' has succeeded in doing so in these 'Stories of the English.' 

 All that is revealed regarding the author's identity is that she is a woman, and 

 the stories were written for a little girl born in Canada, and now resident in 

 Ireland. The book begins with 'The Coming of the White Horse' (A.D. 449); 

 it ends with Waterloo. In what might be described as a postscript, ' F.' makes 



?lain the moral which she has endeavoured to point in the preceding pages. 

 b is no exaggeration to say that the book represents not only a masterpiece in 

 literature for children, but a work of no slight value for the national good. It 

 leads the child on and up through British history to a realisation of what citizen- 

 ship of such an empire as Britain means. ' Stories of the English ' should find a 

 welcome in every household, and when the season of gifts comes round it should 

 not be forgotten. Fifty striking illustrations conclude with the famous picture 

 of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon." 



