Old English Ballads. Selected and edited, with Notes and Introduction, by Professor F. B. GUMMERE of Haverford College. 12mo. Cloth. xcviii+380 pages. By mail, $1.35; for introduction, $1.25. THE aim has been to present the best of the traditional English and Scottish ballads and also to make the collection representative. The pieces have been arranged by subject, but not divided into groups or classes. The glossary will be found full but simple. Philological details have been given only when the explanation of the passage rendered them necessary. The notes have been prepared according to the same principle, the elucidation of the text and the thought. The introduction presents a detailed study of popular poetry and the views of its chief critics, with notes on metre, style, etc. Leverett Spring, Professor of Rhet- | Michigan: Admirably done throughoric, Williams College: A thorough out and seems to supply an imand scholarly piece of literary work. portant piece of apparatus for the Isaac N. Demmon, Professor of teaching of English in our schools. English Literature, University of Selections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by WM. LYON PHELPS, Instructor in English Literature at Yale College. 12mo. Cloth. 1+179 pages. By mail, $1.00; for introduction, 90 cents. THIS volume contains all of the poems of Gray that are of any real interest and value, and the prose selections include the Journal in the Lakes entire, and extracts from his Letters of autobiographical and literary interest. The Introduction, besides containing a Life of Gray, a Bibliography, etc., gives a summary of his historical significance, with a critical review of his work. The Notes on the Prose are very brief, and simply explanatory. This volume of Gray, besides being adapted for the general reader, will be especially useful in schools and colleges. Hiram Corson, Professor of English, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. The editorial part of this work is admirably done. George C. Chase, President of Bates College, Lewiston, Me.: An excellent text, competent editing and scholarly notes. A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics. Selected and edited, with Introduction, Notes and Indices, by FELIX E. SCHELLING, Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. 12mo. Cloth. lxix + 327 pages. By mail, $1.25; for introduction, $1.12. THE selections have been drawn from the works of individual authors, from Plays and Masques, and from the Miscellanies, Song Books and Sonnet Sequences of the age: each selection is given entire. The poems are arranged as nearly chronologically as is possible in order that the collection may be representative. The introduction sets forth the general nature of the Elizabethan lyric in its thought and form, briefly treating of the changes wrought in style and versification, the sources of the selections, questions of text and authorship. Herrick: Selections from the Hesperides and the Noble Numbers. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by Professor EDWARD E. HALE, Jr., of the State University of Iowa. 12mo. Cloth. pages. By mail, ; for introduction, THE editor has made a selection of Herrick's best poems. In the introduction he endeavors to mark the varied development of Herrick's poetic thought and to find bases for proper inference concerning the poet's life. He has, however, kept in mind throughout that Herrick is of real interest as a consummate artist of exquisite quality, and not as an available object for critical methods. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. Edited, with an Introduction and Commentary, by ARCHIBALD MAC SARTOR RESARTUS is Carlyle's first important book. It contains in essence all his teaching for his age, and possesses also much interest as his spiritual autobiography. Though no book needs annotation more, on account of its many and remote allusions, this is the first attempt since its publication to deal fully with the difficulties which it presents. HIGHER ENGLISH. [See also Classics for Children, pages 2 to 5.] Lessons in English. Adapted to the study of American Classics. A text-book for High Schools and Academies. By SARA E. H. LOCKWOOD, formerly teacher of English in the High School, New Haven, Conn. 12mo. Cloth. xix + 403 pages. Mailing price, $1.25; for introduction, $1.12. Thanatopsis and Other Favorite Poems of Bryant. Prepared especially to accompany Lockwood's Lessons in English. 12mo. Paper. 61 pages. Mailing price, 12 cents; for introd., 10 certs. THIS is, in a word, a practical High School text-book of English, embracing language, composition, rhetoric, and literature. It presents in simple and attractive style, the essentials of good English; and, at the same time, develops a critical literary taste, through the study of American Classics. The plan provides for a course in English extending over the pupil's first year and a half in the High School, the work being preparatory to the study of English Literature as usually pursued in schools of this grade. These "Lessons" include the most important facts concerning the History and Elements of the Language, Common Errors in the Use of English, the Study of Words, Rules for the Construction of Sentences, Figures of Speech, Punctuation, Letter-Writing, Composition, and Biographical Sketches of the seven authors particularly studied, Irving, Bryant, Long fellow, Whittier, Hawthorne, Holmes, and Lowell. Katharine Lee Bates, Professor | examine it and other books, the of English, Wellesley College, Mass.: more I like it. As yet I have found While the treatment of the various no text that I like so well as Locksubjects included is thorough, sound wood's. and clear, the art of the teacher is most happily displayed throughout. English study guided by this volume can hardly fail to be at once profitable and delightful. C. G. Dunlap, Prof. of English, Kas. State University: I know of no text-book on elementary English so satisfactory to me as this. Any student who masters it is soundly prepared in elementary English. F. A. Hill, Secretary Massachusetts Board of Education: The book R. E. Blackwell, Prof. of English, opens to me like a very sensible, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia: practical and attractive book; and II was so pleased with the book that I may say that the author has hit the put it into my preparatory class. It nail pretty squarely on the head. has stirred more interest in the study James Winne, Prin. High School, of English than any book I have ever Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: The more I used in that class. A Practical Course in English Composition. By ALPHONSE G. NEWCOMER, Assistant Professor of English in Leland Stanford Junior University. 12mo. Cloth. x + 249 pages. Mailing price, 90 cents; for introduction, 80 cents. THIS is an eminently practical book. It is intended for the regular English course of High Schools and Academies to accompany or follow such a book as Lockwood's Lessons in English or for elementary work in colleges. The author has a definite, practical aim. He "fires low." It is believed that this historic injunction has nowhere a more salutary application than in books on English Composition. In Newcomer the art of Composition is given the distinct treatment which its importance warrants. While it may not be entirely dissociated from the science of Rhetoric, there are no formal rules and no "rhetorical exercises." The writing of compositions whole compositions is insisted upon from first to last. A systematic course is followed, beginning with simple narration and leading up to the more difficult forms of discourse. Under each exercise subjects are proposed, followed by suggestions and illustrations. Henry N. Dickinson, Instructor | presenting the subject of English in English, Massachusetts Institute composition is very simple, plain of Technology: Newcomer's book is and concise. the best that I have seen of its kind. Enoch Perrine, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.: The aim as well as the execution of the plan is certainly to be commended. Bliss Perry, Professor of Oratory, Princeton University: I like the plan of the English composition very much. D. E. Bowman, Principal High School, Waterville, Me.: I consider this a model work. H. A. Hartman, Professor of Languages, State Experimental College, Athens, Ala.: The method used in J. G. Wight, Principal Girls' High School, Philadelphia: It is an admirable and needed supplement to grammar and rhetoric. H. H. Robinson, Superintendent of Schools, Geneva, Ill.: I consider it the freest, the most unconventional, the most ambition-stirring book on English composition that I have ever seen. Robert F. Pennell, Principal State Normal School, Chico, Cal.: I am pleased with it. B. H. Patterson, Teacher of English, High School, Pittsburgh, Pa.: It is an admirable book, full of good suggestions and helpful where help is most needed. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric. By JOHN F. GENUNG, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. 12mo. Cloth. xiv + 483 pages. Mailing price, $1.40; for introd., $1.25. THE treatment is characterized by good sense, simplicity, originality, availability, completeness and ample illustration. It is throughout constructive and the student is regarded at every step as endeavoring to make literature. All of the literary forms have been given something of the fulness hitherto accorded only to argument and oratory. No important principle has been presented without illustrations drawn from the usage of the best authorities. Genung's Rhetoric, though a work on a trite subject, has aroused general enthusiasm by its freshness and practical worth. Among the many leading institutions that have introduced it are Wellesley, Smith, Vassar Colleges; Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Northwestern Universities; and the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan. C. F. Richardson, Prof. of English, T. W. Hunt, Prof. of English Literature, Dartmouth College, and author of a History of American Literature: I find it excellent both in plan and execution. Literature, Princeton University, I Miss M. A. Jordan, Prof. of Rhet- W. H. Magruder, Prof. of English, oric, Smith College, Northampton, Agricultural and Mechanical College Mass. The critic is conscious of a of Mississippi: For clearness of feeling of surprise as he misses the thought, lucidity of expression, aptorthodox dulness. The analysis of ness of illustration,-in short, for topics is clear, the illustrations are real teaching power, I have never pertinent and of value in themselves, seen this work equalled. the rules are concise and portable. A Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis. Studies in Style and Invention, designed to accompany the author's Practical Elements of Rhetoric. By JOHN F. GENUNG, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. 12mo. Cloth. xii + 306 pages. Mailing Price, $1.25; Introduction and Teachers' Price, $1.12. THIS handbook follows the general plan of the larger text-book, being designed to alternate with that from time to time, as different stages of the subject are reached. J. H. Gilmore, Prof. of Rhetoric, University of Rochester, N. Y.: This strikes me as a very significant attempt to open a road that college students especially need to travel. C. L. Ehrenfeld, formerly Prof. of English, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio: Its actual use in class work has confirmed my former favorable judgment of it. |