Pater’s Appreciations.

NOTE.  Special works on criticism, the drama, the novel, etc., will be found in the Bibliographies on pp. 9, 181, etc.

TEXTS AND HELPS (inexpensive school editions).

Standard English Classics, and Athenaeum Press Series (Ginn and Company).

Everyman’s Library (Dutton).

Pocket Classics, Golden Treasury Series, etc. (Macmillan).

Belles Lettres Series (Heath).

English Readings Series (Holt).

Riverside Literature Series (Houghton, Mifflin).

Canterbury Classics (Rand, McNally).

Academy Classics (Allyn & Bacon).

Cambridge Literature Series (Sanborn).

Silver Series (Silver, Burdett).

Student’s Series (Sibley).

Lakeside Classics (Ainsworth).

Lake English Classics (Scott, Foresman).

Maynard’s English Classics (Merrill).

Eclectic English Classics (American Book Co.).

Caxton Classics (Scribner).

The King’s Classics (Luce).

The World’s Classics (Clarendon Press).

Little Masterpieces Series (Doubleday, Page).

Arber’s English Reprints (Macmillan).

New Mediaeval Library (Duffield).

Arthurian Romances Series (Nutt).

Morley’s Universal Library (Routledge).

Cassell’s National Library (Cassell).

Bohn Libraries (Macmillan).

Temple Dramatists (Macmillan).

Mermaid Series of English Dramatists (Scribner).

NOTE.  We have included in the above list all the editions of which we have any personal knowledge, but there are doubtless others that have escaped attention.

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Biography

Dictionary of National Biography, 63 vols. (Macmillan), is the standard.

English Men of Letters Series (Macmillan).

Great Writers Series (Scribner).

Beacon Biographies (Houghton, Mifflin).

Westminster Biographies (Small, Maynard).

Hinchman and Gummere’s Lives of Great English Writers (Houghton, Mifflin) is a good single volume, containing thirty-eight biographies.

NOTE.  For the best biographies of individual writers, see the
Bibliographies at the ends of the preceding chapters.

SELECTIONS

Manly’s English Poetry and Manly’s English Prose (Ginn and Company) are the best single-volume collections, covering the whole field of English literature.

Pancoast’s Standard English Poetry, and Pancoast’s Standard English Prose
(Holt).

Oxford Book of English Verse, and Oxford Treasury of English Literature, 3 vols. (Clarendon Press).

Page’s British Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Sanborn).

Stedman’s Victorian Anthology (Houghton, Mifflin).

Ward’s English Poets, 4 vols.; Craik’s English Prose Selections, 5 vols.;
Chambers’s Encyclopedia of English Literature, etc.