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 THE MODERN STUDENT’S LIBRARY

EVAN HARRINGTON

By Grorce MEREDITH

With an Introduction by

GEORGE G. REYNOLDS Professor of English Literature, University of Colorado

Evan Harrington, one of the greatest demonstrations of George Meredith’s genius, is an ironic comment on English society and man- ners in the latter part of the last century, done with amazing pene- tration and the best of his humor. In the large, it reflects the strug- gle between spiritual and moral ideals which was constantly going on in Meredith’s mind and which ends in the triumph of the spirit of sacrifice.

THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE

By Rosert Louis STEVENSON

With an Introduction by

H. S. CANBY

Formerly Professor of English Literature at Yale University, and present editor of the New York Evening Post Literary Review

Here is one of the most absorbing of Stevenson’s romances, full of the spice of adventure and exciting incident, the thrill of danger and the chill of fear; it is, beside, a powerful and subtle study of Scotch character of different types, and brings into being one of the most amazing of all the dramatis persone of romantic fiction.

POEMS AND PLAYS

By Rosert Brownine

Selected with an Introduction and Notes by

HEWLETTE ELWELL JOYCE Assistant Professor of English in Dartmouth College

A volume intended for the student or less-advanced reader of Browning who does not require a complete edition. The introduction suggests an approach to Browning, points out such difficulties as often perplex one who reads Browning for the first time, and states simply a few of the poet’s fundamental ideas.