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 THE MODERN STUDENT’ LIBRARY

THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL

By Grorcr MEREDITH

With an Introduction by FRANK W. CHANDLER

Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,’”’ published in 1859, was Mere- dith’s first modern novel and probably his best. Certainly it was, and has remained, the most generally popular of all this author's books and among the works of its type it stands pre-eminent. The story embodies in the most beautiful form the idea that in life the whole truth and nothing but the truth is best.

MEREDITH’S ESSAY ON COMEDY

With an Introduction, Notes, and Biographical Sketch by

LANE COOPER Professor of English at Cornell University

“Good comedies,” Meredith tells us, “are such rare productions that, notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list.”

The “‘Essay on Comedy” is in a peculiarly intimate way the ex- position of Meredith’s attitude toward life and art. It helps us to understand more adequately the subtle delicacies of his novels.

CRITICAL ESSAYS OF THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY

Selected and edited. with an Introduction, by RAYMOND M. ALDEN Professor of English at Leland Stanford University

The essays in this volume include those of Wordsworth, Copleston, Jeffrey, Scott, Coleridge, Lockhart, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron, Shelley, Newman, DeQuincey, Macaulay, Wilson, and Hunt.