Books Prescribed for 1897—Continued. GEORGE ELIOT'S SILAS MARNER. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Robert Herrick, A. B., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Chicago. With Portrait of George Eliot. FOR STUDY. SHAKSPERE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Francis B. Gummere, Ph.D., Professor of English in Haverford College; Member of the Conference on English of the National Committee of Ten. With Portrait. BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Albert S. Cook, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University. With Portrait of Burke. SCOTT'S MARMION. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Robert Morss Lovett, A.B., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Chicago. With Portrait of Sir Walter Scott. MACAULAY'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. Edited, with introduction and notes, by the Rev. Huber Gray Buehler, of the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. With Portrait of Johnson. Books Prescribed for the 1898 Examinations. FOR READING. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. BOOKS I. AND II. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College. With Portrait of Milton. POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD. BOOKS I., VI., XXII., AND XXIV. Edited, with introduction and notes, by William H. Maxwell, A.M., Ph.D., Superintendent of Public Instruction, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Percival Chubb, Instructor in English, Manual Training High School, Brooklyn. With Portrait of Pope. Books Prescribed for 1898—Continued. THE SIR ROGER DE Coverley PAPERS, from "The Spectator." Edited, with introduction and notes, by D. O. S. Lowell, A.M., of the Roxbury Latin School, Roxbury, Mass. With Portrait of Addison. GOLDSMITH'S THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Mary A. Jordan, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric and Old English in Smith College. With Portrait of Goldsmith. COLERIDGE'S THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Herbert Bates, A.B., Instructor in English in the University of Nebraska. With Portrait of Coleridge. SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Edwin L. Miller, A.M., of the Englewood High School, Illinois. With Portrait of Nelson and plans of battles. CARLYLE'S ESSAY ON BURNS. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Wilson Farrand, A.M., Associate Principal of the Newark Academy, Newark, N. J. With Portrait of Burns. FOR STUDY. SHAKSPERE'S MACBETH. Edited, with introduction and notes, by John Matthews Manly, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language in Brown University. With Portrait of Shakspere. BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Albert S. Cook, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University. With Portrait of Burke. DE QUINCEY'S FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Charles Sears Baldwin, Ph.D., Instructor in Rhetoric in Yale University. With Portrait of De Quincey. TENNYSON'S THE PRINCESS. Edited with Introduction and Notes by George Edward Woodberry, A.B., Professor of Literature in Columbia College. With Portrait of Tennyson. Books Prescribed for the 1899 Examinations. POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD. BOOKS I., VI., XXII., AND XXIV. Edited, with introduction and notes, by William H. Maxwell, A.M., Ph.D., Superintendent of Public Instruction, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Percival Chubb, Instructor in English, Manual Training High School, Brooklyn. With Portrait of Pope. DRYDEN'S PALAMON AND ARCITE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by James W. Bright, Ph.D., Professor of English Philology in Johns Hopkins University. [Preparing. THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS, from "The Spectator." Edited, with introduction and notes, by D. O. S. Lowell, A.M., of the Roxbury Latin School, Roxbury, Mass. With Portrait of Addison. GOLDSMITH'S THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Mary A. Jordan, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric and Old English in Smith College. With Portrait of Goldsmith. COLERIDGE'S THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Herbert Bates, A.B., Instructor in English in the University of Nebraska. With Portrait of Coleridge. DE QUINCEY'S Flight of a TARTAR TRIBE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Charles Sears Baldwin, Ph.D., Instructor in Rhetoric in Yale University. With Portrait of De Quincey. COOPER'S THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. With introduction and explanatory notes. [In preparation. FOR STUDY. SHAKSPERE'S MACBETH. Edited, with introduction and notes, by John Matthews Manly, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language in Brown University. With Portrait of Shakspere. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. BOOKS I. AND II. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College. With Portrait of Milton. Books Prescribed for 1899—Continued. BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Albert S. Cook, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University. With Portrait of Burke. CARLYLE'S ESSAY ON BURNS. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Wilson Farrand, A. M., Associate Principal of the Newark Academy, Newark, N. J. With Portrait of Burns. Books Prescribed for the 1900 Examinations. FOR READING. (See also Preceding Lists.) DRYDEN'S PALAMON AND ARCITE. Edited by Professor J. W. Bright. POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD. BOOKS I., VI., XXII., AND XXIV. Edited by Superintendent Maxwell and Percival Chubb. THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS. Lowell. GOLDSMITH'S THE VICAR Of Wakefield. Edited by Dr. D. O. S. Edited by Professor DE QUINCEY'S FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE. Edited by Dr. C. S. Baldwin. TENNYSON'S THE PRINCESS. Edited by Professor G. E. Woodberry. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. BOOKS I. AND II. Edited by Professor E. E. Hale, Jr. BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Edited by Dr. A. S. Cook. MACAULAY'S ESSAYS ON MILTON AND ADDISON. The following volumes are also ready: Scott's WoodSTOCK. Edited, with introduction and notes, by SHAKSPERE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Edited, with introduction and notes, by George Pierce Baker, A.B., Assistant Professor of English in Harvard University. With Frontispiece, 'Imitation of an Elizabethan Stage.' WEBSTER'S FIRST BUNKER HILL ORATION, together with other Addresses relating to the Revolution. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Fred Newton Scott, Ph.D., Junior Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan. With Portrait of Daniel Webster. MILTON'S L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO, COMUS, AND LYCIDAS. Edited, with introductions and notes, by William P. Trent, A.M., Professor of English in the University of the South. 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