Chapter VIII: The Victorian Age (1837-1901) (4)

_LITERARY HISTORY_. Cambridge History of English Literature,
to be completed in 14 vols. (Putnam), by different authors, not
always in harmony; Channels of English Literature (Button) treats
of epic, drama, history, essay, novel and other types, each in a
separate volume; Jusserand, Literary History of the English People,
to 1650, 2 vols. (Putnam), a fascinating record; Ten Brink, English
Literature, to 1550, 3 vols. (Holt), good material, clumsy style;
Taine, English Literature, 2 vols. (Holt), brilliant but not
trustworthy; Handbooks of English Literature, 9 vols. (Macmillan);
Garnett and Gosse, Illustrated History of English Literature, 4
bulky volumes (Macmillan), good for pictures; Nicoll and Seccombe,
History of English Literature, from Chaucer to end of Victorian
era, 3 vols. (Dodd); Morley, English Writers, to 1650, 11 vols.
(Cassell); Chambers, Cyclopedia of English Literature, 3 vols.
(Lippincott).

_BIOGRAPHY_. Dictionary of National Biography, 63 vols.
(Macmillan). English Men of Letters, a volume to each author
(Macmillan); briefer series of the same kind are Great Writers
(Scribner), Beacon Biographies (Houghton), Westminster Biographies
(Small). Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, 5 vols. (Lippincott).
Hinchman and Gummere, Lives of Great English Writers (Houghton),
offers thirty-eight biographies in a single volume.

_LITERARY TYPES_. Courthope, History of English Poetry, 4
vols. (Macmillan); Gummere, Handbook of Poetics (Ginn and Company);
Stedman, Nature and Elements of Poetry (Houghton); Saintsbury,
History of English Prosody (Macmillan); Alden, Specimens of English
Verse (Holt).

Steenstrup, The Mediæval Popular Ballad, translated from the Danish
by Edward Cox (Ginn and Company); Gummere, The Popular Ballad
(Houghton). Ward, History of Dramatic Literature, to 1714, 3 vols.
(Macmillan); Caffin, Appreciation of the Drama (Baker).

Raleigh, The English Novel (Scribner); Hamilton, Materials and
Methods of Fiction (Baker); Cross, Development of the English Novel
(Macmillan); Perry, Study of Prose Fiction (Houghton).

Saintsbury, History of Criticism, 3 vols. (Dodd); Gayley and Scott,
Introduction to Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism (Ginn
and Company); Winchester, Principles of Criticism (Macmillan);
Worsfold, Principles of Criticism (Longmans); Moulton, Library of
Literary Criticism, 8 vols. (Malkan).

_ESSAYS OF LITERATURE_. Bagehot, Literary Studies; Hazlitt,
Lectures on the English poets; Lowell, Literary Essays; Mackail,
Springs of Helicon (English poets from Chaucer to Milton); Minto,
Characteristics of English Poets (Chaucer to Elizabethan
dramatists); Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism; Leslie Stephen,
Hours in a Library; Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books;
Birrell, Obiter Dicta; Hales, Folia Litteraria; Walter Pater,
Appreciations; Woodberry, Makers of Literature; Dowden, Studies in
Literature and Transcripts and Studies; Gates, Studies in
Appreciation; Harrison, The Choice of Books; Bates, Talks on the
Study of Literature.

_COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE_. Manly, English Poetry,
English Prose, 2 vols., containing selections from all important
English authors (Ginn and Company); Newcomer and Andrews, Twelve
Centuries of English Poetry and Prose (Scott); Century Readings in
English Literature (Century Co.); Pancoast, Standard English
Poetry, Standard English Prose, 2 vols. (Holt); Leading English
Poets from Chaucer to Browning (Houghton); Oxford Book of English
Verse. Oxford Treasury of English Literature, 3 vols. (Clarendon
Press); Ward, English Poets, 4 vols., and Craik, English Prose
Selections, 5 vols. (Macmillan); Morley, Library of English
Literature, 5 vols. (Cassell).

_LANGUAGE_. Lounsbury, History of the English Language (Holt);
Emerson, Brief History of the English Language (Macmillan); Welsh,
Development of English Language and Literature (Scott); Bradley,
Making of English (Macmillan); Greenough and Kittredge, Words and
their Ways in English Speech (Macmillan); Anderson, Study of
English Words (American Book Co.).

_MISCELLANEOUS_. Classic Myths in English Literature (Ginn and
Company); Ryland, Chronological Outlines of English Literature,
names and dates only (Macmillan); Raleigh, Style (Longmans);
Brewer, Reader's Handbook (Lippincott); Hutton, Literary Landmarks
of London (Harper); Boynton, London in English Literature
(University of Chicago Press); Dalbiac, Dictionary of English
Quotations (Macmillan); Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (Little);
Walsh, International Encyclopedia of Quotations (Winston).

_SCHOOL TEXTS_. [Footnote: The chief works of English and
American literature are now widely published in inexpensive
editions prepared especially for classroom use. Descriptive
catalogues of these handy little editions are issued by the various
educational publishers.] Standard English Classics and Athenæum
Press Series (Ginn and Company); Riverside Literature (Houghton);
Pocket Classics, Golden Treasury Series (Macmillan); Lake Classics
(Scott); Silver Classics (Silver); Longmans' English Classics
(Longmans); English Readings (Holt); Maynard's English Classics
(Merrill); Caxton Classics (Scribner); Belles Lettres Series
(Heath); King's Classics (Luce); Canterbury Classics (Rand);
Academy Classics (Allyn); Cambridge Literature (Sanborn); Student's
Series (Sibley); Camelot Series (Simmons); Carisbrooke Library
(Routledge); World's Classics (Clarendon Press); Lakeside Classics
(Ainsworth); Standard Literature (University Publishing Company);
Eclectic English Classics (American Book Co.); Cassell's National
Library (Cassell); Everyman's Library (Button); Morley's Universal
Library (Routledge); Bohn Library (Macmillan); Little Masterpieces
(Doubleday); Handy Volume Classics (Crowell); Arthurian Romances
(Nutt); New Mediæval Library (Duffield); Arber's English Reprints
(Macmillan); Mermaid Dramatists (Scribner); Temple Dramatists
(Macmillan); Home and School Library, a series of texts prepared
for young readers (Ginn and Company).

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