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 * Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy.

Campbell's Pleasures of Hope.

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

Goldsmith's Deserted Village.

Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.

Gray's Elegy in a Churchyard.

Keat's Eve of St. Agnes.

Milton's l'Allegro.

Tennyson's May Queen.

Warton's Hamlet.

Wordsworth's Pastoral Poems.

"Such works are a glorious beatification for a poet. Such works as these educate townsmen, who, surrounded by dead ana artificial things, as country people are by life and nature, scarcely learn to look at nature till taught by these concentrated specimens of her beauty."—Athenæum.

LITERATURE. WORKS OF REFERENCE. AND EDUCATION.

"Written with a grace and mastery of the language which show the Author to be not unworthy of ranking himself among English Classics; it deserves a place on the shelves of every educated Englishman."—Nonconformist, Oct. 8, 1862.

"Mr. Marsh shows not only a real love of his subject, but a thorough acquaintance with it. In the present series of lectures he carries on the history of the English language, and of English literature, from its very beginning down to the reign of Elizabeth."—Saturday Review, Oct 18.

"The Author has brought together an amount of literary information scarcely equalled in variety or extent, and shown an intimate acquaintance with the best writings of ail the richest periods in the rise and progress of the English language. We commend his book, therefore, as of real and lasting value both to the student of Philology and to the more general reader."— Literary Budget, Oct. 11.