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39 CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 39 Taine's History of English Literature. Translated by HENRY VAN LAUN. Four Vols. small 8vo, 30*. extra, 153. Two Vols. crown 8vo, cloth boards, i8j.; Large Paper copies (only 50 printed), %6s. Cyril Tourneur's Collected Works, Plays and Poems. Edited, with Critical Introduction and Notes, by J. CHURTON COLLINS. " Tourneur's plays are an essential part of the literary history of his period For this reason chiefly they deserve Mr, Collins' s careful editing. His notes ar brief ^ and to the point ; his illustrations, drawn from a store of curious and re- condite learning, are apt and pregnant ..... The book, "which is prettily printed, is one which the strident of Elizabethan literature cannot dispense with" SATURDAY REVIEW. Small 8vo, cloth gilt, with Portrait, 6s. Thoreau : His Life and Aims. A Study. By H. A. PAGE, Author of "The Life of Thomas De Quincey," &c. "Mr. Page has done a good deed in making tJte 'Poet Naturalist* known to English readers. Thoreau' s story is one of the most attractive stories of our time, and we have to thank Mr. Page for reproducing it for its. The ' New England Hermit ' ought, one would think, to be almost as great a favourite with English boys of this generation as ' Robinson Crusoe.' Mr. Page* s study has, besides other merits, that of brevity, so rare in these days ; and we rose from the book with a strong desire for -more, a feeling that we had only had half a meal." SPECTATOR. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, Js. 6d. Timbs Clubs and Club Life in London. With Anecdotes of its famous Coffee-houses, Hostelries, and Taverns. By JOHN TIMES, F.S.A. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, JS. 6d. Timbs' English Eccentrics and Ec- centricities : Stories of Wealth and Fashion, Delusions, Impos- tures, and Fanatic Missions, Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes, Eccentric Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men of Letters, &c. By JOHN TIMES, F.S.A. With nearly 50 Illustrations. One Vol. crown 8vo, cloth extra, Js. 6d. Tom Taylor's Historical Plays. "Clancarty," " Jeanne d' Arc," "'Twixt Axe and Crown," "The Fool's Revenge," " Arkwright's Wife," "Anne Boleyn," "Plot and Passion." %* The Plays ma}? also be had separately, at is. each.
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