Mr. Murray's Recent Publications. 



Life, Works, and Letters 



OF 



Alexander Pope. 



INCLUDING MANY ORICINAL TIKCES, AND MOKE THAN FOUR 

 HUNDRED LETTERS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. 



Edited, \s\\\\ Introductions and Notes, 



By CROKER, ELWIN, and COURTHOPE. 



With Portraits and Index. 10 Vols. Sro. los. 6d. each. 



I. -IV. Poetical Works. | VI. Prose Works. 



V. Like and Index. | VII.-X. Correspondence. 



*,* The New Life is by W. J. Courthope. 



" This excellent edition of Pope supersedes all its predecessors, and to a study of Pope's 

 life and works is absolutely indispensable. All that is valuable in the notes of previous editors 

 is preserved. The new Prefaces and Notes contain an extraordinary amount of information, 

 much of which appears for the first lime. It is impossible to praise too highly the patient care 

 and painstaking industry with which facts are sifted, omissions supplied, errors corrected. — 



Edinburgh Rcx>iew. . , , ■_ , j r 



"Though the life and works of the poet will still continue to be the battle-ground of 

 students of°Knglish literature, no combatant can regard himself as adequately equipijed for the 

 contest who has not studied the suggestive criticism both of Pope's poetry and ch.aracler, which 

 is contained in Volume V. of this monumental edition."— /"//f Quarterly Rn'ino. 



" In putting forth this new and splendid edition of a great English classic, Mr. Murray, 

 as we all know, is not rendering his first disinterested service, by many, to the cause of letters. 

 Mr. Courthopes high merits as an editor are known to all who have examined his recensioii 

 and commentary in the previous volumes of the work. He possesses the three cardmal 

 editorial qualities of conscientiousness, learning, and .acumen. The life is an excellent piece 

 of biographical writing." — National Review. . 



"these volumes make as full and complete repertory of information relating to Pope 

 himself his work, and his times, as it would be easy to imagine. This task Mr. Courthope 

 has very ably and adequately fulfilled. He has done his work excellently, and has produced a 

 life, .as likely to be the standard life as is the edition of which it forms a p-art, to be the 

 standard edition of Pope's works for a long time to com^."— Literary World. 



" A work of solid merit, the fruit of patient industry, long and loving study, careful 

 judgment, and literary workmanship, worthy of the subject and of a work that will probably 

 live as a standard biography of the great poet cf the classical xttswtd."— Scotsman. ^ 



"It is impossible to over-estimate the value of a criticism which, like Mr. Courthopes, 

 quickens the reader's sense of what is really intrinsic, and helps him to distinguish between 

 generic and superficial change." — Guardian. ,,.,.,>■„ ^ tu 



"Mr Courthope has at last crowned the long labour of years by his Z.i/<r oA /"o^. The 

 biography is worthy of the editor ; industry, patience, judgment in selection and arrangement, 

 a good temper, and a good style— all the qualities which make the notes and prefaces in^each 

 volume of the Works such useful and pleasant reading are equally conspicuous in the Li.c. — 

 The World. 



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The Expression of the Emotions 

 in Men and Animals. 



By CHARLES DARWIN. 

 Revised EdUion, with the Authors Latest Corrections. Plates. Crorcn Svo. 12s. 



