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EDITED BY

GEORGE RICE CARPENTER, A.B.,
Professor of Rhetoric and English Composition in Columbia College.

This series is designed for use in secondary schools in accordance with the system of study recommended and outlined by the National Committee of Ten, and in direct preparation for the uniform entrance requirements in English, now adopted by the principal American colleges and universities.

Each volume contains full Notes, Introductions, Bibliographies, and other explanatory and illustrative matter. Crown 8vo, cloth.

Books Prescribed for the 1897 Examinations.

FOR READING.

SHAKSPERE'S AS YOU LIKE IT. With an introduction by BARRETT WENDELL, A.B., Assistant Professor of English in Harvard University, and notes by WILLIAM LYON PHELPS, Ph.D., Instructor in English Literature in Yale University.

DEFOE'S HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Professor G. R. CARPENTER, of Columbia College. With Portrait of Defoe.

IRVING'S TALES OF A TRAVELLER. With an introduction by BRANDER MATTHEWS, Professor of Literature in Columbia College, and explanatory notes by the general editor of the series. With Portrait of Irving.

GEORGE ELIOT'S SILAS MARNER. Edited, with introduction and notes, by ROBERT HERRICK, A.B., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Chicago. With Portrait of George Eliot.

FOR STUDY.

SHAKSPERE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by FRANCIS B. GUMMERE, Ph.D., Professor of English in Haverford College. With Portrait of Shakspere.

BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited, with introduction and notes, by ALBERT S. Cook, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University. With Portrait of Burke.

SCOTT'S MARMION. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Robert MORSS LOVETT, A.B., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Chicago. With Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.

MACAULAY'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. Edited, with introduction and notes, by the Rev. HUBER GRAY BUEHLER, of the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. With Portrait of Johnson.

Books Prescribed for the 1898 Examinations.

FOR READING.

MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. BOOKS I. AND II. Edited, with introduction and notes, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College. With Portrait of Milton. POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD. BOOKS I., VI., XXII., AND XXIV. Edited, with introduction and notes, by WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, A.M., Superintendent of Public Instruction, Brooklyn, N.Y., and PERCIVAL CHUBB, of the Manual Training High School, Brooklyn. With Portrait of Pope.

THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS, from "The Spectator." Edited, with introduction and notes, by D. O. S. LOWELL, A.M., English Master in the Roxbury Latin School, Roxbury, Mass. With Portrait of Addison.

GOLDSMITH'S THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Edited, with introduction and notes, by MARY A. JORDAN, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric and Old English in Smith College. With Portrait of Goldsmith. COLERIDGE'S THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARiner. Edited, with introduction and notes, by HERBERT BATES, A.B., Instructor in English in the University of Nebraska. With Portrait of Coleridge. SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. Edited, with introduction and notes, by EDWIN L. MILLER, A. M., of the Englewood High School, Illinois. With Portrait of Nelson.

CARLYLE'S ESSAY ON BURNS. Edited, with introduction and notes, by WILSON FARRAND, A.M., Associate Principal of the Newark Academy, Newark, N. J. With Portrait of Burns.

FOR STUDY.

SHAKSPERE'S MACBETH. Edited, with introduction and notes, by JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language in Brown University. With Portrait of Shakspere.

BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited, with introduction and notes, by ALBERT S. COOK, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University. With Portrait of Burke.

DE QUINCEY'S FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN, Ph.D., Instructor in Rhetoric in Yale University. With Portrait of De Quincey.

TENNYSON'S THE PRINCESS. Edited, with introduction and notes, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, A.B., Professor of Literature in Columbia College. With Portrait of Tennyson.

See list of the series at end of volume for books prescribed for

1899 and 1900.

LONGMANS' ENGLISH CLASSICS

EDITED BY

GEORGE RICE CARPENTER, A.B.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

LORD TENNYSON

THE PRINCESS

LONGMANS' ENGLISH CLASSICS

With full Notes, Introductions, Bibliographies, and other Explanatory and Illustrative Matter. Crown 8vo. Cloth.

SHAKSPERE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. Edited by Francis B. Gummere, Ph.D., Professor of English in Haverford College.

SHAKSPERE's As You LIKE IT.

With

an Introduction by Barrett Wendell, A.B., Assistant Professor of English in Harvard University, and Notes by William Lyon Phelps, Ph.D., Instructor in English Literature in Yale University.

SHAKSPERE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Edited by George Pierce Baker, A. B., Assistant Professor of English in Harvard University.

SHAKSPERE'S MACBETH. Edited by John Matthews Manly, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language in Brown University.

MILTON'S L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO, COMUS, AND LYCIDAS. Edited by William P. Trent, A.M., Professor of English in the University of the South. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. Books I. AND II. Edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College.

POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD. Books I.. VI., XXII., AND XXIV. Edited by William H. Maxwell, A.M., Ph.D., Superintendent of Public Instruction, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Percival Chubb, Instructor in English, Manual Training High School, Brooklyn.

DEFOE'S HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON. Edited by Professor G. R. Carpenter, of Columbia College.

THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS, from "The Spectator." Edited by D. O. S. Lowell, A.M., of the Roxbury Latin School, Roxbury, Mass.

GOLDSMITH'S THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Edited by Mary A. Jordan, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric and Old English in Smith College.

BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited by Albert S. Cook, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University.

SCOTT'S WOODSTOCK. Edited by Bliss Perry, A. M., Professor of Oratory and Esthetic Criticism in Princeton College.

SCOTT'S MARMION. Edited by Robert Morss Lovett, A.B., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Chicago.

MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON MILTON. Edited by James Greenleaf Croswell, A.B., Head-master of the Brearley School, New York, formerly Assistant Professor of Greek in Harvard University. MACAULAY'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. Edited by the Rev. Huber Gray Buehler, of the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.

IRVING'S TALES OF A TRAVELLER. With an Introduction by Brander Matthews, Professor of Literature in Columbia College, and Explanatory Notes by the general editor of the series.

WEBSTER'S FIRST BUNKER HILL ORATION, together with other Addresses relating to the Revolution. Edited by Fred Newton Scott, Ph.D., Junior Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan.

COLERIDGE'S THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Edited by Herbert Bates, A.B., formerly Instructor in English in the University of Nebraska.

SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. Edited by Edwin L. Miller, A.M., of the Englewood High School, Illinois.

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