Chapter I: Front Matter

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_WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY_
LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT
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1. _Sheridan’s Plays._
2. _Plays from Molière._ By English Dramatists.
3. _Marlowe’s Faustus_ and _Goethe’s Faust_.
4. _Chronicle of the Cid._
5. _Rabelais’ Gargantua_ and the _Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel_.
6. _Machiavelli’s Prince._
7. _Bacon’s Essays._
8. _Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year._
9. _Locke on Civil Government and Filmer’s “Patriarcha.”_
10. _Butler’s Analogy of Religion._
11. _Dryden’s Virgil._
12. _Scott’s Demonology and Witchcraft._
13. _Herrick’s Hesperides._
14. _Coleridge’s Table-Talk._
15. _Boccaccio’s Decameron._
16. _Sterne’s Tristram Shandy._
17. _Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad._
18. _Mediæval Tales._
19. _Voltaire’s Candide_, and _Johnson’s Rasselas_.
20. _Jonson’s Plays and Poems._
21. _Hobbes’s Leviathan._
22. _Samuel Butler’s Hudibras._
23. _Ideal Commonwealths._
24. _Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey._
25 & 26. _Don Quixote._
27. _Burlesque Plays and Poems._
28. _Dante’s Divine Comedy._ LONGFELLOW’S Translation.
29. _Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems._
30. _Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit._ (_Hitopadesa._)
31. _Lamb’s Essays of Elia._
32. _The History of Thomas Ellwood._
33. _Emerson’s Essays, &c._
34. _Southey’s Life of Nelson._
35. _De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium-Eater, &c._
36. _Stories of Ireland._ By Miss EDGEWORTH.
37. _Frere’s Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds._
38. _Burke’s Speeches and Letters._
39. _Thomas à Kempis._
40. _Popular Songs of Ireland._
41. _Potter’s Æschylus._
42. _Goethe’s Faust: Part II._ ANSTER’S Translation.
43. _Famous Pamphlets._
44. _Francklin’s Sophocles._
45. _M. G. Lewis’s Tales of Terror and Wonder._
46. _Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation._
47. _Drayton’s Barons’ Wars, Nymphidia, &c._
48. _Cobbett’s Advice to Young Men._
49. _The Banquet of Dante._
50. _Walker’s Original._
51. _Schiller’s Poems and Ballads._
52. _Peele’s Plays and Poems._
53. _Harrington’s Oceana._
54. _Euripides: Alcestis and other Plays._
55. _Praed’s Essays._
56. _Traditional Tales._ ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
57. _Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity. Books I.-IV._
58. _Euripides: The Bacchanals and other Plays._
59. _Izaak Walton’s Lives._
60. _Aristotle’s Politics._
61. _Euripides: Hecuba and other Plays._

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