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Arnold's English Literature.

Historical and Critical.

With an Appendix on English Metres, and Summaries of the Different Literary Periods. By THOMAS ARNOLD, M.A., of University College, Oxford. American edition. Revised. 12mo. Cloth. 558 pages. Mailing price, $1.65; for introduction (with or without the following pamphlet), $1.50.

The Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods have been republished, from the fourth revised English edition, and can be furnished in paper binding. Mailing price, 30 cents; for introduction, 25 cents.

H. H. Morgan, formerly Prin. of | that of the student; for he would High School, St. Louis, Mo.: I should find much which could otherwise most fully recommend it to any be obtained only by extensive readone whose interest in literature was ing.

First Two Books of Milton's Paradise Lost; and Milton's Lycidas.

By HOMER B. SPRAGUE, Ph.D., formerly Principal of the Girls' High School, Boston. 12mo. Cloth. 198 pages. Mailing price, 55 cents; for introduction, 45 cents.

THIS edition furnishes convenient and suggestive notes, with excellent type and arrangement, and presents an approved formula for conducting class exercises. It omits fifteen or twenty objectionable lines.

William F. Warren, President | me admirably adapted to its purof Boston University: It seems to pose.

A Hand-Book of Poetics.

For Students of English Verse. By FRANCIS B. GUMMERE, Ph.D., Professor of English Literature, Haverford College, Pa., and formerly Instructor in English in Harvard College. 12mo. Cloth. x+250

pages. Mailing price, $1.10; for introduction, $1.00.

EACH division in this book is treated from two points of view,—

the historical, tracing the growth of different kinds of subject, of expression, or of rhythm; and the theoretical, stating clearly the principles and laws of the matter discussed.

F. J. Child, Prof. of English, Har- an exceedingly fine book in M.. vard University: I think you have Gummere's Poetics.

Outlines of the Art of Expression.

By J. H. GILMORE, Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and English in the University of Rochester, N.Y. 12mo. Cloth. 117 pages. Mailing price, 65 cents; for introduction, 60 cents.

Choice Readings from Popular and Standard

Authors.

Compiled and arranged by ROBERT I. FULTON, A.M., Professor of Elocution and Oratory in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, A.M., Professor of Elocution and Oratory in the University of Michigan. 12mo. 729 pages. By mail, $1.65; for introduction, $1.50. Presentation edition, stamped cover, full gilt, fine paper, $4.00 retail.

ITS distinctive feature is the number, variety, and interest of the pieces, classified according to their character, and covering the entire range of available selections. Indexes are given to the best scenes from all the plays of Shakespeare, 139 choice readings from the Bible, and 159 hymns, - all classified. A complete diagram

of the principles of vocal expression is added.

J. W. Churchill, Prof. of Elocu- B. C. Burt, formerly Asst.-Prof. tion, Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.: The excellent purpose of the authors has been very successfully accomplished, both in the expository and illustrative material.

H. M. Ticknor, Prof. of Elocution, Boston: I approve heartily of Fulton and Trueblood's book of selections.

of English, and Rhetoric, Michigan University: I do not know that I have ever seen anything better of its kind. In its 700 pages is stowed away, neatly and compactly, a large amount of good reading, - good not only for elocutionary, but also for literary purposes.

Chart Illustrating the Principles of Vocal Ex

pression.

By ROBERT I. FULTON, A.M., and THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, A.M. Printed on extra tough paper, 36 × 60 inches, bound on the edges, and mounted. Retail price, $2.00. Special introduction terms on application.

Richard Parsons, Prof. of Greek, Ohio Wesleyan University: It is remarkably clear, full, and suggestive. As a guide to the possibilities of vocal delivery it is simply incomparable.

G. L. Raymond, Prof. of Oratory and Esthetic Criticism, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.: It is the best thing of the kind that I have

ever seen.

The College Critic's Tablet.

By ROBERT I. FULTON, A.M., and THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, A.M. For use in Literary Societies, Lyceums, and Classes in English, Elocution, and Oratory. 4to. ii+174 pages. Tablet form. Mailing price, 70 cents; for introduction, 60 cents.

James W. Bashford, Pres. Ohio Wesleyan University: The Tablet

will prove fruitful of suggestions and frugal of time to every college critic.

Practical Elements of Elocution.

Designed as a text-book for the guidance of teachers and students of expression. By ROBERT I. FULTON, A.M., Professor of Elocution and Oratory in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, A.M., Professor of Elocution and Oratory in the University of Michigan. With an Appendix on Truth, Personality, and Art in Oratory, by JAMES W. BASHFORD, President of the Ohio Wesleyan University. 12mo. Cloth. x+464 pages. Retail price, $1.50; special terms for introduction.

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THE Practical Elocution is the outgrowth of the class-room as well as the study. It contains the latest and best thought on the subject; combining, as it does, the valuable features of the time-honored Rush Philosophy of Voice with the Delsarte Philosophy of Action, the two forming a complete system of expression. The authors have not disregarded the traditional principles of Elocution; nor have they followed blindly the ideas of the new school of Delsarte, some of whose followers, the authors believe, have swung too far to the other extreme, the actional side of elocution, · and have not furnished principles sufficient as a basis for vocal elocution. The Practical Elements of Elocution takes the intermediate ground and combines the best points of the two systems as necessary each to the other and to the best forms of expression.

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Chas. Wesley Emerson, President Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, Mass.: I wish to express my appreciation of the work.

Moses True Brown, Principal of the Boston School of Oratory: The book is thoroughly scientific, clear in statement, catholic in spirit, and excellent in illustration. In a word it is an epoch-making book in all elocutionary directions. I shall find a place for it in my school.

George L. Raymond, Professor of Oratory and Esthetic Criticism, Princeton University, Princeton: It strikes me as a very successful attempt to unite, as has not been done before, the methods of Rush and Delsarte.

Wm. H. Payne, Chancellor of the University of Nashville, Tenn.: The book is admirably adapted to the ends proposed.

Mrs. Laura J. Tisdale, Director of School of Oratory and Dramatic Art, Chicago Musical College: The subject is broadly and vigorously treated.

R. G. Hibbard, Instructor of Elocution, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct. A model of systematic arrangement and fully up with the times.

E. L. Barbour, Instructor of Elocution, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J.: It is the most complete theoretical and practical work on elocution published.

ATHENEUM PRESS SERIES.

ISSUED UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF

PROFESSOR GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE, of Harvard University,

AND

PROFESSOR C. T. WINCHESTER, of Wesleyan University.

IT is proposed to issue a series of carefully edited works in English Literature, under the above title. This series is intended primarily for use in colleges and higher schools; but it will furnish also to the general reader a library of the best things in English letters in editions at once popular and scholarly. The works selected will represent, with some degree of completeness, the course of English Literature from Chaucer to our own times.

The volumes will be moderate in price, yet attractive in appearance, and as nearly as possible uniform in size and style. Each volume will contain, in addition to an unabridged and critically accurate text, an Introduction and a body of Notes. The amount and nature of the annotation will, of course, vary with the age and character of the work edited. The notes will be full enough to explain every difficulty of language, allusion, or interpretation Full glossaries will be furnished when necessary.

The introductions are meant to be a distinctive feature of the series. Each introduction will give a brief biographical sketch of the author edited, and a somewhat extended study of his genius, his relation to his age, and his position in English literary history. The introductory matter will usually include a bibliography of the author or the work in hand, as well as a select list of critical and biographical books and articles. See also Announcements.

Sidney's Defense of Poesy.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by ALBERT S. Cook, Professor of English in Yale University. 12mo. Cloth. xlv+103 pages. By mail, 90 cents; for introduction, 80 cents.

in every sentence of the Introduction and Notes, and the paper of questions is admirable as a guide to the thorough study of the substance of

William Minto, Late Prof. of Literature, University of Aberdeen: It seems to me to be a very thorough and instructive piece of work. The interests of the student are consulted | the essay.

Ben Jonson's Timber: or Discoveries

Made upon Men and Matter, as they have Flowed out of his Daily Readings, or had their Reflux to his Peculiar Notions of the Times. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by FELIX E. SCHELLING, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. 12mo. Cloth. xxxviii+166 pages. Mailing price, 90 cents; for introduction, 80 cents. THIS is the first attempt to edit a long-neglected English classic,

which needs only to be better known to take its place among the best examples of the height of Elizabethan prose. The introduction and a copious body of notes have been framed with a view to the intelligent understanding of an author whose wide learning and wealth of allusion make him the fittest exponent of the scholarship as well as the literary style and feeling of his age. Edward Dowden, Prof. of English, | ature as this prose work of Jonson Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: It should be made easily accessible, and is a matter for rejoicing that so valu- should have all the advantages of able and interesting a piece of liter- scholarly editing.

Selections from the Essays of Francis Jeffrey.

Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by LEWIS E. GATES, Instructor in English in Harvard University. 12mo. Cloth. xlv+213 pages. By mail, $1.00; for introduction, 90 cents.

THE selections are chosen to illustrate the qualities of Jeffrey's

style and his range and methods as a literary critic. The introduction gives a brief sketch of the history of Reviews in England down to 1802 and suggests some of the more important changes in critical methods and in the relations between critic and public which were brought about by the establishment of the Edinburgh Review. This volume is especially valuable for classes that are beginning the independent study of literary topics and methods of criticism.

Charton Collins, London, Author | istics as a man, his relative position of "Bolingbroke and Voltaire," to his contemporaries, his excellence, "Jonathan Swift," etc.: The intro- his deficiencies and his limitations. duction gives succinctly and clearly all the facts which enable students to understand Jeffrey's character

I have no hesitation in saying that the book supplies a real want, and supplies it excellently.

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