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 THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIBRARY

BACON’S ESSAYS

Selected, with an Introduction and Notes, by

MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT Late Professor of English Literature at Smith College

These essays, the distilled wisdom of a great observer upon the affairs of common life, are of endless interest and profit. The more

one reads them the more remarkable seem their compactness and their vitality.

ADAM BEDE By Grorce Euiot

With an Introduction by

LAURA J. WYLIE Professor of English at Vassar College

With the publication of ‘Adam Bede” in 1859, it was evident both to England and America that a great novelist had appeared. “Adam Bede” is the most natural of George Eliot’s books, simple in problem, direct in action, with the freshness and strength of the Derbyshire landscape and character and speech in its pages.

THE RING AND THE BOOK By Rosert BRownine

With an Introduction by

FREDERICK MORGAN PADELFORD Professor of English at Washington University

“<The Ring and the Book,’ ” says Dr. Padelford in his introduc- tion, “is Browning’s supreme literary achievement. It was written after the poet had attained complete mastery of his very individual style; it absorbed his creative activity for a prolonged period; and it issued with the stamp of his characteristic genius on every page.”