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 The Works and Letters

of

Charles and Mary Lamb

Edited by E, U. LUCAS

7 volumes, Octavo. Very fully illustrated. Each, net, $2.25

The Works are divided as follows; I.—Miscellaneous Prose. 1798-1834.

Il.—The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia.

IfIl.—Books for Children.

[V.—Dramatic Specimens.

V.—Poems and Plays.

VI, and VII.—The Letters.

The Lucas edition of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb is now complete in seven octavo volumes, the sixth and seventh being devoted to the letters of the Lambs. Mr. EF, V. Lucas is recognized as the authority on the Lambs, and his skilful arrangement and illuminating notes make this set certain of acceptance as the standard library edition, The last two volumes, covering the correspondence, contain man hitherto unpublished letters written by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary, whose letters are now for the first time included with those of her brother, Charles Lamb was a ready and brilliant letter-writer, and his letters to his close friends such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey, with the editor's connecting notes, form almost a complete record of some of the most interesting portions of his life. For their intimacy and frankness Lamb's letters may be likened to those of Stevenson in our own time and they deserve equal popularity.

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