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 THE MODERN STUDENT’S LIBRARY

X RUSKIN’S SELECTIONS AND ESSAYS

With an Introduction by

FREDERICK WILLIAM ROE Assistant Professor of English at University of Wisconsin

“Ruskin,” said John Stuart Mill, “was one of the few men in Europe who seemed to draw what he said from a source within him- self.” Carlyle delighted in the “‘fierce lightning bolts” that Ruskin was “copiously and desperately pouring into the black world of anarchy all around him.”

The present volume, by its wide selection from Ruskin’s writings, affords an unusual insight into this remarkable man’s interests and character.

THE SCARLET LETTER

By NatHanieLt HAawTHORNE

With an Introduction by

STUART P. SHERMAN Professor of English at University of Illinois

“*The Scarlet Letter’ appears to be as safe from competitors as ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ or ‘Robinson Crusoe.’ It is recognized as the classical treatment of its particular theme. Its symbols and scenes of guilt and penitence—the red letter on the breast of Hester _ Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale on the scaffold—have fixed themselves | in the memory of men like the figure of Crusoe bending over the footprints in the sand, and have become a part of the common stock of images like Christian facing the lions in the way.

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK