The Students' Series of English Classics.

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

A Ballad Book

The Merchant of Venice

Edited by KATHARINE LEE BATES, Wellesley College.

Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum

Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration .

Milton, Lyrics

Edited by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS. Introduction to the Writings of John Ruskin Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive

Edited by VIDA D. SCUDDER, Wellesley College.

George Eliot's Silas Marner

Scott's Marmion

Edited by MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS, Instructor, New York.

Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from The Spectator.
Edited by A. S. ROE, Worcester, Mass.

35"

35"

Macaulay's Second Essay on the Earl of Chatham .
Edited by W. W. CURTIS, High Schoo!, Pawtucket, R.I.

Johnson's History of Rasselas

Edited by FRED N. SCOTT, University of Michigan.

Joan of Arc and Other Selections from De Quincey .
Edited by HENRY H. BELFIELD, Chicago Manual Training

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Carlyle's The Diamond Necklace.

Edited by W. F. MOZIER, High School, Ottawa, Ill.

Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison

Edited by JAMES CHALMERS, Ohio State University.

Selections from Washington Irving

Edited by ISAAC THOMAS, High School, New Haven, Conn.

Edited by JAMES ARTHUR TUFTS, Phillips Exeter Academy.

Selected Orations and Speeches

Edited by C. A. WHITING, University of Utah.

Lays of Ancient Rome.

Edited by D. D. PRATT, High School, Portsmouth, Ohio.

Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village

Edited by W. F. GREGORY, High School, Hartford, Conn.

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Edited by L. DU PONT SYLE, University of California.
Macaulay: Life of Samuel Johnson; Essay on Byron

Edited by GAMALIEL BRADFORD, JR., Instructor in Literature,
Wellesley and Boston.

Wordsworth's White Doe of Rylstone

Edited by MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS, Professor of English
Literature.

Tennyson's Elaine .

Edited by FANNIE MORE MCCAULEY, Instructor in English
Literature, Winchester School, Baltimore.

25"

All are substantially bound in cloth. The usual discount will be made for these books in quantities.

LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN, Publishers.

BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO.

LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN,
BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO.

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

BY LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN.

ELECTROTYPED BY C. J. PETERS & SON.

PRESS OF BERWICK & SMITH.

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WITH SO many excellent class-room editions of "The Merchant of Venice" already before the public, a fresh arrival on the field finds its only valid excuse for being in the fact that the others are too good. Most school editions tell the student much that he would better find out for himself. Explanation is sometimes necessary, suggestion is often helpful; but the happiest and, in the end, the wisest student is he who makes the most discoveries. Taste and appreciation, critical judgment and discrimination, are developed through free exercise of the reader's own faculties, not by submission to authority. Yet in literature, as elsewhere in education, guidance makes for economy, preventing waste of time and force along mistaken lines. To point the student's way, not to bring the goal to him, is the function of the teacher. The present edition holds by the teacher's method. It does not undertake to give the meaning of words defined by Webster and Worcester, nor to explain classical allusions to a student who, if not himself reading Ovid and

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