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Bulletin of Recent Publications 

 and Winter Announcements of 



Cjje ^nil3er0it^ of C{)icaao BvtSQ 



English Poems 



Selected and Edited, with Illustrative and Explanatory Notes and Bibliographies, 

 by WALTER C. BRONSON, Professor of English Literature, Brown 

 University 



Vol. IV, The Nineteenth Century, 635 pages, i2mo, cloth; net $z.oo, postpaid $1.15. Special 

 Library Edition, net $1.50, postpaid $1.68 



In preparing this series, Professor Bronson is providing for college students and others 

 a more convenient and generally available selection of English poetry than has ever been 



comDleted it will comnrise four volumes. Volume I will include Old- 



made before. When 



Middle 



will cover the Elizabethan and Caroline periods; Volume III wall be devoted to the Restora- 

 tion and the eighteenth century; while Volume IV (now ready) covers the nineteenth century. 

 The volumes are being issued at intervals of about six months. 



The plan of ''The Nineteenth Century'' is thus described in the preface: 



Authors and poems have been chosen both for on the meaning of a poem, or give circumstances 



their merit and for their significance in the history connected with the composition of it, or illustrate 



of English literature. The book is therefore not an the poet^s method of work; (3) the poet's theory of 



anthology, or collection of the best poems. It is a poetry and his philosophy of life, when these can be 



collection of good poems that illustrate the different given in his own words; (4) variant readmgs of a 



periods and phases of the work of individual poets, few poems, such as "The Ancient Marmer" and 



and the rise, growth, and decline of schools of poetry. **The Palace of Art," the reworking of which has 



- . - - Entire poems have been given wherever that special interest and significance; (5) quotations from 



was possible, and the bulk of the book is made up of sources and parallel passages, or references to them, 



them. But in order to represent some authors at to show the poet's literary relationships and his way 



all adequately it has been found necessary to admit of handUng raw material; (6) extracts from con- 



a limited number of extracts. The notes include temporary criticisms on some of the leaders of new 



(i) explanations of words, allusions, etc., which the literary movements. A selected bibliography, 



average college student may find obscure; (2) state- adapted to the needs of undergraduates, foUows the 



ments by the author or his friends which throw light notes. 



Heralds of American Literature 



By ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE 



394 pages, II plates, small 8vo, cloth; net $1.50, postpaid $1.64 



Recounts in detailed study and largely from original sources the lives and services 

 of a group of typical writers of the Revolutionar>' and National periods. There are bio- 



Joseph Dannie^ William 



J 



and Charles Brockden Brown and his contemporaries in Ection. The book is illustrated by 

 several half-tones of rare portraits, broadsides, and title-pages. 



Literature in the Elementary School 



By PORTER LANDER MacCLINTOCK 



320 pages, lamo, cloth; net $1.00, postpaid $1.12 



The book gives a series of detailed studies on the choice and teaching of the various 



kinds of stories; on poetry; on the drama; on myth as literature; on the correlation of 



literature with the other disciplines; on the actual teaching of the class m literature; on tne 

 -^4. ^1 , , , .. ^. .. . 1 ^ ^.,* ^f o^^.,^^>^ rAar?incr tnr rhiidren: ana 



return 

 finally 



a chapter on out-of-school reading for children; and 



ggestion 



experience 



