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 THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIBRARY

ENGLISH POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Selected and Edited by ERNEST BERNBAUM Professor of English at the University of Illinois

The great age of the eighteenth century is, more than any other, perhaps, mirrored in its poetry, and this anthology reveals its man~ ners and ideals.

While the text of the various poems is authentic, it is not bur- dened with scholastic editing and marginal comment. The collec. tion and its form is one which satisfies in an unusual way the in- terest of the general reader as well as that of the specialist.

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS By Joun Bunyan

With an Introduction and Notes by DR. S. M. CROTHERS

This book is one of the most vivid and entertaining in the English language, one that has been read more than any other in our lan- guage, except the Bible.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE By Jane AUSTEN

With an Introduction by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

To have this masterpiece of realistic literature introduced by so eminent a critic as William Dean Howells is, in itself, an event in the literary world. We cannot better comment upon the edition than by quoting from Mr. Howells’s introduction:

He says: “When I came to read the book the tenth or fifteenth time for the purposes of this introduction, I found it as fresh as when I read it first in 1889, after long shying off from it.”