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GENERAL CATALOGUE. 



Masson (Professor).^ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND 

 CRITICAL. See Section headed " Poetry and Belles Lettres. " 



LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narrated in connexion with the 

 Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By 

 David Masson, M.A., LL. D., Professor of Rhetoric at Edin- 

 burgh. Vol. I. ^\^th Portraits. 8vo. iSj. Vol. II. in the Press. 



It is intended to exhibit Milton s life in its connexions with all the moj-e 

 notable phenomena of the period of British history in which it was cast — 

 its state politics, its ecclesiastical variations, its literature and speculative 

 thought. Commencing in 1608, the Life of Milton proceeds through the 

 last sixteen years of the reign of James I. , includes the whole of the reign 

 of Charles I. and the subsequent years of the Commonwealth and the 

 Protectorate, and then, passing the Restoration, extends itself to 1674, or 

 through fourteen years of the nevj state of things under Charles II. The 

 first volume deals with the life of Milton as extending from 1 608 to 1 640, 

 which was the period of his education and of his minor poems. 



M orison. —THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD, 

 Abbot of Clairvaux. By James Cotter Morison, M.A. New 

 Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. "js: 6d. 



" One of the best contributions in our literature towards a vivid, intel- 

 ligent, and worthy knowledge of European interests and thoughts and 

 feelings during the twelfth century. A delightful and instructive volutne, 

 and one of the best products of the modern historic spirit.'" 



Pall Mall Gazette. 



Morley (John). — EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study. By 

 John Morley, B.A. Oxon. Crown 8vo. "js. 6d. 



" The style is terse and incisive, and brilliant with epigram and point. 

 It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Burke hi7?iself would not have 

 disowned. But these are not its best features : its sustained power 0/ 

 reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical 

 and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence, and as such we 

 cordially recommend it to our readers." — SATURDAY REVIEW. 



