Chapter I: Front Matter

Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

ESSAYS

BY

WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY
SIR GEORGE YOUNG, BART., Μ.A.

_WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY_

LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
GLASGOW AND NEW YORK

1887

MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.

1. _Sheridan’s Plays._

2. _Plays from Molière._ By English Dramatists.

3. _Marlow’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 Εllwood._

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._

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