THE UNIVERSITY SERIES 



THE ENGLISH NOVEL 

 Being a Short Sketch of its History from the Ear- 

 liest Times to the Appearance of Waverley. By 

 Walter Raleigh, Professor of Modern Litera- 

 ture at University College, Liverpool. i2mo, 

 $r.25 net. 



The book furnishes critical studies of the work of the chief English 

 novelists before Scott, connected by certain general lines of reasoning and 

 speculation on the nature and development of the novel. Most of the 

 material has been given by the author ni the form of lectures to his classes, 

 and possesses the merit of being specially prepared for use in the class- 

 room. 



HISTORY OF RELIGION 

 A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Prac- 

 tices and of the Original Character of the Great 

 Systems. By Allan Menzies, D.D., Professor of 

 Biblical Criticism in the University of St. Andrews. 

 i2mo, 438 pages, $1.50 net. 



This book makes no pretence to be a guide to all the mythologies or 

 to all the religious practices which have prevailed in the world. It is 

 intended to aid the student who desires to obtain a general idea of com- 

 parative religion by exhibiting the subject as a connected and organic 

 whole, and by indicating the leading points of view from which each of 

 the great systems may be best understood. 



LATIN LITERATURE 

 By J. W. Mackail. Sometime Fellow of Balliol 

 College, Oxford. i2mo, 286 pages, $1.25 net. 



Prof. Tracy Peck, Yale University. ~>^ I know not where to find in 

 such a convenient compass so clear a statement of the peculiar qualities 

 of Rome's Literature, and such sympathetic and defensible judgment in 

 the chief authors." 



SHAKSPERE AND HIS PREDECESSORS 

 By Frederick S. Boas. Formerly -Exhibitioner at 

 Balliol College, Oxford. i2mo, $1.50 net, 



Shakspere's writings are treated in this work in their approximate 

 chronological order. The relation of the writings to their sources, their 

 technique and general import, and their points of contact with the litera- 

 ture of their own and earlier times, engage the author's attention. The 

 Rise of the English Drama is clearly sketched, while Shakspere's kinship 

 to his predecessors is given much greater prominence than is usual. 



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