Addison.  Texts:  Works, in Bohn’s British Classics; Selections, in Athenaeum Press, etc.  Life:  by Lucy Aiken; by Courthope (English Men of Letters); by Johnson, in Lives of the Poets.  Criticism:  Essays, by Macaulay; by Thackeray.

Steele.  Texts:  Selections, edited by Carpenter in Athenaeum Press (Ginn and Company); various other Selections published by Putnam, Bangs, in Camelot Series, etc.; Plays, edited by Aitken, in Mermaid Series.  Life:  by Aitken; by A. Dobson (English Worthies Series).  Criticism:  Essays by Thackeray; by Dobson, in Eighteenth Century Vignettes.

Johnson.  Texts:  Works, edited by Walesby, 11 vols. (Oxford, 1825); the same, edited by G.B.  Hill, in Clarendon Press.  Essays, edited by G.B.  Hill (Dent); the same, in Camelot series; Rasselas, various school editions, by Ginn and Company, Holt, etc.; Selections from Lives of the Poets, with Macaulay’s Life of Johnson, edited by Matthew Arnold (Macmillan).  Life:  Boswell’s Life of Johnson, in Everyman’s Library, Temple Classics, Library of English Classics, etc.; by L. Stephen (English Men of Letters); by Grant.  Criticism:  G.B.  Hill’s Dr. Johnson, his Friends and Critics; Essays, by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Macaulay, Birrell, etc.

Boswell.  Texts:  Life of Johnson, edited by G.B.  Hill (London, 1874); various other editions (see above).  Life:  by Fitzgerald (London, 1891); Roger’s Boswelliana (London, 1874).  Whitfield’s Some Eighteenth Century Men of Letters.

Burke.  Texts:  Works, 12 vols. (Boston, 1871); reprinted, 6 vols., in Bohn’s Library; Selected Works, edited by Payne, in Clarendon Press; On the Sublime and Beautiful, in Temple Classics.  For various speeches, see Selections for Reading, above.  Life:  by Prior; by Morley (English Men of Letters).  Criticism:  Essay, by Birrell, in Obiter Dicta.  See also Dowden’s French Revolution and English Literature, and Woodrow Wilson’s Mere Literature.

Gibbon.  Texts:  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by Bury, 7 vols. (London, 1896-1900); various other editions; The Student’s Gibbon, abridged (Murray); Memoirs, edited by Emerson, in Athenaeum Press (Ginn and Company).  Life:  by Morison (English Men of Letters).  Criticism:  Essays, by Birrell, in Collected Essays and Res Judicatae; by Stephen, in Studies of a Biographer; by Robertson, in Pioneer Humanists; by Frederick Harrison, in Ruskin and Other Literary Estimates; by Bagehot, in Literary Studies; by Sainte-Beuve, in English Portraits.  See also Anton’s Masters in History.

Sheridan.  Texts:  Speeches, 5 vols. (London, 1816); Plays, edited by W.F.  Rae (London, 1902); the same, edited by R. Dircks, in Camelot Series; Major Dramas, in Athenaeum Press; Plays also in Morley’s Universal Library, Macmillan’s English Classics, etc.  Life:  by Rae; by M. Oliphant (English Men of Letters); by L. Sanders (Great Writers).