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Johnson, THE LIVES OF THE 

 ENGLISH POETS. By Samuel 

 Johnson, LL.D. With an Intro- 

 duction by J. H. Millar, and a Por- 

 trait. 3 vols. los. 6d. 



Bums. THE POEMS OF ROBERT 

 BURNS. Edited by Andrew Lang 

 and W. A. Craigie. With Portrait. 

 Second Edition. Demy %vo, gilt top. 

 6s. 



' Among editions in one volume, this will 

 take the place of authority.' — Times. 



F. Laoigbridge. BALLADS OF THE 

 BRAVE; Poems of Chivalry, Enter- 

 prise, Courage, and Constancy. 

 Edited by Rev. F. Langbridgk. 

 Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. y. bd. 

 School Edition. 7.s. 6d. 

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Gibbon. MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE 

 AND WRITINGS. By Edward 

 Gibbon. Edited, v,ith an Introduc- 

 tion and Notes, by G. Birkbeck 

 Hill, LL.D. Crown ivo. 6s. 

 ' An admirable edition of one of the most 

 interesting personal records of a literary 

 life. Its notes and its numerous appen- 

 dices are a repertory of almost all thai 

 can be known about Gibbon.' — Man- 

 chester Guardian. 



Gibbon. THE DECLINE AND 

 FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 

 By Edward Gibbon. A Newr Edi- 

 tion, Edited with Notes, Appendices, 

 and Maps, by J. B. Bury, LL.D., 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 

 In Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo. Gilt 

 top. 85. 6d. each. Also Cr. 8vo. 6s. 

 each. 

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 of Gibbon. . . . The best edition the 

 nineteenth century could produce. — 

 Manchester Guardian. 

 ' A great piece of editing.' — Academy. 

 'The greatest of English, perhaps of all, 

 historians has never been presented to 

 the public in a more convenient and 

 attractive form. No higher praise can 

 be bestowed upon Professor Bury than 



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 he is worthy of being ranked with Guizot 

 and Milman.' — Daily News. 

 Dante. LA COMMEDIA DI 

 DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Italian 

 Te.xt edited by PAGET Toynbee, 

 M.A. Crown Zvo. 6s. 

 ' .\ carefully-revised text, printed with 

 beautiful clearness.' — Glasgow Herald. 

 C. G. Crump. THE HISTORY OF 

 THE LIFE OF THOMAS ELL- 

 WOOD. Edited by C. G. Crump, 

 M.A. Crown 8vo. 6s. 

 This edition is the only one which contains 

 the complete book as originally pub- 

 lished. It contains a long Introduction 

 and many Footnotes. 

 Tennyson. THE EARLY POEMS OF 

 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, 

 Edited, with Notes and an Introduc- 

 tion by J. Churton Collin.s, M.A. 

 Crown 8vo. 6s. 

 An elaborate edition of the celebrated 

 volume which was published in its 

 final and definitive form in 1S53. This 

 edition contains a long Introduction and 

 copious Notes, textual and explanatory. 

 It also contains in an Appendix all 

 the Poems which Tennyson afterwards 

 omitted. 



XLbc Morhs of Sbaftespeare 



General Editor, Edward Dowden, Litt. D. 



Messrs. Methuen have in preparation an Edition of Shakespeare in 

 single Plays. Each play will be edited with a full Introduction, Textual 

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 The first volume is : 



H.\MLET. Edited by Edward 

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' An admirable edition. 



A comely 



volume, admirably printed and produced, 

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