66 A Complete Manual of English Literature. By THOMAS B. SHAW, Author of Shaw's Outlines of English Literature." Edited, with Notes and illustrations, by WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D., Author of "Smith's Bible and Classical Dictionaries." With a Sketch of American Literature, by HENRY T. TUCKERMAN. One vol. large 12mo. Price $2. In this American edition of a valuable English work is appended a sketch of American literature, by a candid and felicitous author, which adds greatly to the interest and usefulness of the book for the schools and libraries of this country. In a convenient-sized volume is given, in brief review, the merits of all the prominent British and American writers-Essayists, Dramatists, Novelists, Historians, and Poets. "Its merits I had not now for the first time to learn. I have used it for two years as a text-book, with the greatest satisfaction. It was a happy conception, admirably executed. It is all that a text-book on such a subject can or need be, comprising a judicious selection of materials, easily yet effectually wrought. The author attempts just as much as he ought to, and does well all that he attempts; and the best of the book is the genial spirit, the genuine love of genius and its works which thoroughly pervades it, and makes it just what you want to put in a pupil's hands."-J. H. RAYMOND, President of Vassar Female College. "I had already determined to adopt it as the principal book of reference in my department. This is the first term in which it has been used here; but from the trial which I have now made of it, I have every reason to congratulate myself on my selection of it as a text-book."-R. P. DUNN, Brown University. Shaw's Specimens of English Literature. A Companion Book to the above. By THOMAS B. SHAW. Edited, with Notes and Illustrations, by WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D., and Prof. B. N. MARTIN, New York University. One volume large 12mo. Price $2. These two volumes offer the best Series of Text-Books on English Literature yet published. |