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IOGEAPHIA BEITANNICA LITEEAEIA, or Bio- 



fraphy of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland. ANGLO- 

 AXON PERIOD. By Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., &c., Membre de 

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THE ANGLO-NOEMAN PERIOD. Thick 8vo, 



cloth, 6s. (original price 12s.) Published under the superintendence of the Council 

 of the Royal Society of Literature. 



There is no work in the English Language sive and connected History of the Litera- 

 which gives the reader such a comprehen- ture of these periods. 



LITEEATUBE OP THE TEOUBADOUES. Histoire de la Poesie 

 Provencals, par M. Fauriel, public' par J. Mohl, Membre de 1'Institut de France. 

 S vols. 8vo, new, sewed, 14s. (original price 1. 4s.) 

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CUESOEY NOTES on Various Passages in the Text of Beaumont and 

 Fletcher, as edited by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, and on his "Few Notes on Shakes- 

 peare." By the Rev. John Mitford. 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d. 



HISTOEIC AL SKETCHES of the Angling Literature of all Nations. 

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ESSAYS ON THE LITEEATUEE, Popular Superstitions, and His- 

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CONTENTS : Essay 1. Anglo-Saxon Poetry Friar Rush and the frolicsome Elves 11. 



2. Anglo-Norman Poetry 3. Chansons Dunlop's History of Fiction 12. History 



deGeste, or historical romances of the Mid- and transmission of popular stories 13. 



die Ages 4. Proverbs and popular sayings Poetry of history 14. Adventures of Here- 



5. Anglo-Latin poets of the twelfth cen- ward the Saxon 15. Story of Eustace the 



tttpy 6. Abelard and the scholastic philo- Monk 16. History of Fulke Fitzwarine 



BOpny 7. I>r. Grimm's German mythology 17. Popular Cycle of Robin Hood Ballads 



8. National fairy mythology of England 18. Conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Nor- 



9. Popular superstitions of modern Greece, mans. 19. Old English Political Songs. 



and their connexion with the English 10. 20. Dunbar, the Scottish Poet. 



WOETHIES OF WESTMOEELAND, or Biographies of notable 

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