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LATE PUBLICATIONS

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LITTLE, BROWN & CO.

112 Washington Street, Boston.

BRITISH POETS. A Complete Collection of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Wordsworth; embracing the whole Works of the most distinguished Authors, with selections from the Minor Poets; accompanied with Biographical, Historical, and Critical Notices. Edited by F. J. Child, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.

The size and style of the volumes are those of PICKERING'S ALDINE POETS, and such of the works of that edition as fall entirely within the plan of the present collection will be embodied in it. Each separate work is sold by itself, and the price of each volume, bound in the Aldine style, or in black cloth, gilt lettered, is 75 cents. -The following volumes are now

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"It is by far the best edition of these poets that has ever been issued in this country; fully equal to the English, of which they are an exact reprint, and at just one half the cost." Boston Atlas.

"We cannot too warmly commend the series to our readers. Southern Literary Gazette.

"We do not know any other edition of the English Poets which combine so many excellencies. · Bibliotheca Sacra. "This series of the British Poets is the best edition we have ever seen."-Louisville Journal.

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"We regard it as the most beautiful and convenient library edition of the British Poets yet published."— Philadelphia Ev. Bulletin.

"We have before alluded to this excellent publishing enterprise in terms of hearty commendation."- N. Y. Tribune.

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"The publishers of this edition have projected a series of the Classic Poets of Great Britain which is really astonishing, even in this age of enterprise. The magnitude of the plan will at once commend itself to general esteem. In view of the whole sweep of modern literary enterprise, we really know nothing of more importance or more worthy of the cordial support of the American public, than this Boston edition of the English Poets. There is no book-shelf in the country that can afford to have the edition wanting on its shelves, without degrading its owner beneath his proper dignity as an intellectual man."-N. Y. Times.

"A fairer printed, a more tasteful, or a more valuable set of books cannot be placed in any library."-N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

"We cannot too strongly recommend this beautiful edition of the English Poets."— Puritan Recorder.

"It is incomparably the best edition of the British Poets ever offered to the public, and should be overlooked by none collecting a library." - Southern Post.

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"All persons whose standard of home comfort embraces more than one single book-shelf, must have the British Poets in some form; and they may be sure that they will never be able to procure them in a more convenient and economical form than that which these volumes wear." Christian Examiner.

"We hope the publishers will find, as they deserve, a large sale for this best edition of the Poets. It is, of all others, the most eligible library edition that can be procured.". Cincinnati Ga

zette.

"We hope the day is not distant when this splendid edition of the British Poets will form a part of every Public School Library in the United States."- N. Y. Mirror.

"The edition is all that could be wished in every respect. Beautifully printed on the finest paper, plainly but handsomely bound, the volumes will enrich any shelf that may receive them:" Worcester Palladium.

HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. From the latest London trade-edition, reprinted on large type to correspond with the London edition of Macaulay's History. 6 vols. 8vo, cloth. $9.

"These volumes are honorable to the taste, enterprise, and liberality of the publishers, and creditable to the country." Boston Atlas.

A finer library edition of the great historian of England we have never seen.'" "N. Y. Com. Advertiser.

"The same firm have issued an edition of Hume's History of England in six superb octavo volumes, the style of which is not

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