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CHAPTER XII
AN ENGLISH LIBRARY: PERIOD II
After dealing with the formation of a library of authors up to John Dryden, I must logically arrange next a scheme for the period covered roughly by the eighteenth century. There is, however, no reason why the student in quest of a library should follow the chronological order. Indeed, I should advise him to attack the nineteenth century before the eighteenth, for the reason that, unless his taste happens to be peculiarly “Augustan,” he will obtain a more immediate satisfaction and profit from his acquisitions in the nineteenth century than in the eighteenth. There is in eighteenth-century literature a considerable proportion of what I may term “unattractive excellence,” which one must have for the purposes of completeness, but which may await actual perusal until more pressing and more human books have been read. I have particularly in mind the philosophical authors of the century.
PROSE WRITERS. L s. d.
JOHN LOCKE, Philosophical Works:
Bohn’s
Edition (2 vols.)
0 7 0
SIR ISAAC NEWTON, Principia (sections
1,
2, and 3):
Macmillans 0 12 0
Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own
Time:
Everyman’s
Library 0 1 0
William Wycherley, Best Plays:
Mermaid
Series
0 2 6
WILLIAM CONGREVE, Best Plays:
Mermaid
Series
0 2 6
Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub:
Scott
Library
0 1 0
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels:
Temple Classics
0 1 6
DANIEL DEFOE, Robinson Crusoe:
World’s
Classics
0 1 0
DANIEL DEFOE, Journal of the Plague
Year:
Everyman’s Library 0 1
0
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele,
Essays:
Scott Library 0 1 0
William Law, Serious Call:
Everyman’s
Library
0 1 0
Lady Mary W. Montagu, Letters:
Everyman’s
Library
0 1 0
George Berkeley, Principles of Human
Knowledge:
New Universal Library 0 1 0
SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Clarissa (abridged):
Routledge’s
Edition 0 2 0
