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 Literatures of the

A History of

World

Italian Literature.

By Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D., Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum.

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"Dr. Garaett is lucid in arrangement, agreeable and correct. He has real service to both English and Italian literatures."—Literature.

A History of Modern

done

English

Literature. By Edmund Gosse, Hon. M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge,

"We

know of no volume better fitted to give literature than this."—The Spectator.

"A

letters.

really .

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.

a general conception of our

of the whole process of evolution in English Full of insight and serenity of judgment."—The Athemmm. useful account

A History of

French Literature.

By Edward Dowden, D.C.L., LL.D., Professor of English Literature in the University of Dublin. "Certainly the best history of French literature in the English language."— The Athenceum.

"This

is a history of literature as histories of literature should be written. The more closely one looks into this book, the more clearly is it seen how much thought, how much mental selection, as well as how much reading, have —The Saturday gone to the making of these picturesque portraits of writers." Review.

A History of Ancient

Greek Literature.

By Gilbert Murray, M.A., Professor University of Glasgow.

"A

of Greek in the

to which the much-abused word 'brilliant' may be justly — The Times. applied." "The book is brilliant and stimulating, while its freshness of treatment and sketch

recognition of the latest German research amply justify its existence. Murray has made these old Greek bones live."—The Athenceum.

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