Tobias Smollett, _Travels through France and Italy_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
ADAM SMITH, _Wealth of Nations_: World"s Cla.s.sics (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Samuel Johnson, _Lives of the Poets_: World"s Cla.s.sics (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Samuel Johnson, _Ra.s.selas_: New Universal Library 0 1 0
JAMES BOSWELL, _Life of Johnson_: Everyman"s Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Oliver Goldsmith, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 6
Henry Mackenzie, _The Man of Feeling_: Ca.s.sell"s National Library 0 0 6
Sir Joshua Reynolds, _Discourses on Art_: Scott Library 0 1 0
Edmund Burke, _Reflections on the French Revolution_: Scott Library 0 1 0
Edmund Burke, _Thoughts on the Present Discontents_: New Universal Library 0 1 0
EDWARD GIBBON, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_: World"s Cla.s.sics (7 vols.) 0 7 0
Thomas Paine, _Rights of Man_: Watts and Co."s Edition 0 1 0
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, _Plays_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
f.a.n.n.y Burney, _Evelina_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Gilbert White, _Natural History of Selborne_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Arthur Young, _Travels in France_: York Library 0 2 0
Mungo Park, _Travels_: Everyman"s Library 0 1 0
Jeremy Bentham, _Introduction to the Principles of Morals_: Clarendon Press 0 6 6
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, _Essay on the Principle of Population_: Ward, Lock"s Edition 0 3 0
William G.o.dwin, _Caleb Williams_: Newnes"s Edition 0 1 0
Maria Edgeworth, _Helen_: Macmillan"s Ill.u.s.trated Edition 0 2 6
JANE AUSTEN, _Novels_: Nelson"s New Century Library (2 vols.) 0 4 0
James Morier, _Hadji Baba_: Macmillan"s Ill.u.s.trated Novels 0 2 6 __________ 5 1 0
The princ.i.p.al omissions here are Jeremy Collier, whose outcry against the immorality of the stage is his slender t.i.tle to remembrance; Richard Bentley, whose scholarship princ.i.p.ally died with him, and whose chief works are no longer current; and "Junius," who would have been deservedly forgotten long ago had there been a contemporaneous Sherlock Holmes to ferret out his ident.i.ty.
POETS. s. d.
Thomas Otway, _Venice Preserved_: Temple Dramatists 0 1 0
Matthew Prior, _Poems on Several Occasions_: Cambridge English Cla.s.sics 0 4 6
John Gay, _Poems_: Muses" Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
ALEXANDER POPE, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 0
Isaac Watts, _Hymns_: Any hymn-book 0 1 0
James Thomson, _The Seasons_: Muses"
Library 0 1 0
Charles Wesley, _Hymns_: Any hymn-book 0 1 0
THOMAS GRAY, Samuel Johnson, William Collins, _Poems_: Muses" Library 0 1 0
James Macpherson (Ossian), _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
THOMAS CHATTERTON, _Poems_: Muses"
Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
WILLIAM COWPER, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
WILLIAM COWPER, _Letters_: World"s Cla.s.sics 0 1 0
George Crabbe, _Poems_: Methuen"s Little Library 0 1 6
WILLIAM BLAKE, _Poems_: Muses" Library 0 1 0
William Lisle Bowles, Hartley Coleridge, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
ROBERT BURNS, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 6 __________ 1 7 0
SUMMARY OF THE PERIOD.
39 prose writers in 60 volumes, costing 5 1 0 18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0 __ __ __________ 57 78 6 8 0
CHAPTER XIII
AN ENGLISH LIBRARY: PERIOD III