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 THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIBRARY

NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS

Selected and edited by BYRON JOHNSON REES Professor of English at Williams College

Contains letters from Blake, Wordsworth, Smith, Southey, Lamb, Irving, Keats, Emerson, Lincoln, Thackeray, Huxley, Meredith, “Lewis Carroll,” Phillips Brooks, Sidney Lanier, and Stevenson.

.PAST AND PRESENT

By Tuomas CarRLyLE

~ With an Introduction by . EDWIN W. MIMS Professor of English at Vanderbilt University

“Past and Present,” written in 1843, when the industrial revolu- tions had just taken place in England and when democracy and freedom were the watchwords of liberals and progressives, reads like a contemporary volume on industrial and social problems.

BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON

Abridged and edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by CHARLES G. OSGOOD Professor of English at Princeton University

Seldom has an abridgment been made with as great skill in omit- ting nothing vital and keeping proper proportions as this edition by Professor Osgood.

AMERICAN BALLADS AND SONGS

Collected and edited by

LOUISE POUND Professor of English, University of Nebraska

An anthology intended to present to lovers of traditional songs such selections as illustrate the main classics and types having currency in English-speaking North America. It includes a number of imported ballads and songs, Western songs, dialogue and nursery songs, ete.