A Method of English Composition. By T. WHITING BANCROFT, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Brown University. 12mo. Cloth. 96 pages. Mailing Price, 55 cents; Introduction Price, 50 cents. THE HE author's intention is to furnish to colleges, academies, and high schools a brief system of instruction in the preparation of essays or compositions. The second part consists of lists of classified themes, with specimens of plans of compositions, etc. E. E. Smith, Prof. of English and | kinds of subjects that may be treated History, Purdue University, Lafay- in essays, orations, and debates, is ette, Ind.: I have used it with an such, I found, as to remove unnecesadvanced class to decided advan- sary obstacles, and at the same time tage. The divisions and the sugges- to require thought on the student's tive arrangement of the various part. Lee's Graphic Chart of English Literature. By Y. P. LEE, of Yale College. Printed on tough manilla paper 24 × 39 in size. Price, 25 cents. THIS HIS chart is designed to help the student fix the date and relative importance of the various English authors. The space from side to side represents the five centuries from 1350 to 1850, that is, from Chaucer to Tennyson, and is divided into ten spaces by vertical lines. Each space therefore stands for half a century. Along the upper half of the chart is a pictorial representation of English prose writers as a chain of mountains, the names of the most prominent being upon the peaks, while the minor ones are put in the spaces between them and on their sides with dates attached to each. In the lower part of the chart is a similar mountain chain for the poets. Kept constantly before the eye, this chart cannot fail to impress itself upon the memory, carrying with it the salient facts of the history of our literature. It has been examined by professors of English Literature in several of our leading colleges, and strongly commended. OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH. [ANGLO-SAXON.] Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem. (Vol. I. of the Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.) Contains also the Fight at Finnsburh. With Text and Glossary on the basis of Heyne's fourth edition, edited, corrected, and enlarged by JAMES A. HARRISON, Professor of English and Modern Languages, Washington and Lee University, and ROBERT SHARP, Professor of Greek and English, Tulane University of Louisiana. Second Edition, revised. 12mo. Cloth. x + 325 pages. Mailing Price, $1.25; Introduction, $1.12. THIS HIS edition is designed primarily for college classes. It has been recommended by Professors Dowden and Nicoll to their classes in the Universities of Dublin and Glasgow. F. A. March, Prof. of Anglo-Saxon, Hiram Corson, Prof. Eng., Cornell Lafayette College: The best there is Univ.: Altogether the one best adaptfor class use. (Nov. 2, 1885.) ed to the wants of American students. Cadmon's Exodus and Daniel. (Vol. II. of the Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.) Edited from Grein, with Notes and Glossary, by THEODORE W. Hunt, Professor of Rhetoric and English Language in Princeton College. Second Edition, revised. 12mo. Cloth. 121 pages. Mailing Price, 65 cents; Introduction, 60 cents. THIS HIS edition is designed mainly for college classes, and includes 589 lines of the Exodus and 765 of the Daniel. F. A. March, Lafayette College: It | American publish a neat and convenis a matter of honest pride to see an ient edition of it. Andreas: A Legend of St. Andrew. (Vol. III. of the Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.) Edited, with Critical Notes, by W..M. BASKERVILL, Professor of English Language and Literature in the Vanderbilt University. Text and Notes, viii+78 pages. Paper. 25 cents. To be issued soon in Cloth, with Glossary. See the Announcements. RIMM'S, Grein's, and Kemble's editions have been freely used. The chief canon of criticism followed has been to adhere to the reading of the Ms. wherever it was possible. T. W. Hunt, of Princeton College: It is very neatly issued, and in text and notes is highly satisfactory. Modern Language Notes (J. W. Bright): The editor's work bears the stamp of great care and industry. An Old- and Middle-English Reader. (Zupitza's Alt- und Mittel-Englisches Lesebuch.) Translated and edited for the Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry by Prof. G. E. MACLEAN, Ph.D. (Lips.), of the University of Minnesota. The Text, in paper. vi+115 pag. The complete volume in the summer of 1887. THE Text consists of two parts,- Old-English and MiddleEnglish. It is believed to be exceptionally accurate, the manuscripts having been collated personally by Professor Zupitza. The thirty-four pieces are typical as regards the language in its different stages and the literature. They embrace poetry and prose from the rise of the literature in England through the Middle-English Period, - from Cædmon's Hymn to John Lydgate's Guy of Warwick, - a period of seven hundred years. The selections are short, and, when possible, entire; they are arranged chronologically, and at a glance reveal the changes in the language. A new feature is the printing, in parallel columns, of specimens for the study of the West Saxon, Northumbrian, and Mercian dialects. James A. Harrison, Prof. of Modern Languages, English and Modern History, Lexington, Va.: An excellent piece of work, and beautifully printed too. (Nov. 10, 1886.) B. W. Wells, Teacher of English Literature, Friends' School, Providence, R.I.. I think this promises to be the most serviceable book we have for the study of old English. (Nov. 14, 1886.) Chaucer's Parlament of Foules. A revised Text, with Literary and Grammatical Introduction, Notes, 111 pages. F. J. Child, Prof. of English Lit- is so good a book that I am inclined erature in Harvard University: It to slight even better poetry for it. Carpenter's Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Reader. By STEPHEN H. CARPENTER, late Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Wisconsin. 12mo. Cloth. 212 pages. Mailing Price, 70 cents; Introduction, 60 cents. Carpenter's English of the XIV. Century. By STEPHEN H. CARPENTER. 12mo. Cloth. 313 pages. Mailing Price, $1.00; Introduction, 90 cents. ILL LLUSTRATED by Notes, Grammatical and Philological, on Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale, and so forming an excellent introduction to that author. An Old English Grammar. By EDUARD SIEVERS, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Philology in the University of Tübingen; translated and edited by ALBERT S. COOK, PH.D. (Jena), Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California. Mailing Price, $1.25; for Introduction, $1.12. IT, T is hoped that this version will be found not only to present in English the most approved text-book on the subject, but to present it in a form better adapted for the use of students, and in some respects more in accord with the views of the best authorities. American Journal of Philology: | We need hardly add that the work is worthy of general acceptance. The Independent: It may be said to mark an era in the history of Old or First English. Beowulf, and The Fight at Finnsburh. Translated by JAMES M. GARNETT, M.A., LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of Virginia. With Facsimile of the Unique Manuscript in the British Museum, Cotton. Vitellius A XV. Second Edition, revised. 12mo. Cloth. 146 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; Introduction, $1.00. Francis A. March, Prof. of Comparative Philology, Lafayette College: This is the best translation so far in our language, and will do honor to American scholarship. J. Earle, Prof. of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford, Eng. : It is a very complete piece of work, bringing the whole subject up to the very front line of its progress. MODERN LANGUAGES. Beginners' Book in French. Illustrated with humorous pictures. By SOPHIE DORIOT. Small quarto. 304 pages. Mailing Price, 90 cents; for introduction, 80 cents. CHILDREN, for whom this book is designed, care nothing for the intrinsic meaning or value of words. In order to obtain satisfactory results in teaching them a foreign language, it is necessary to amuse them, awaken their enthusiasm, or appeal to their sympathy. In object-teaching, it requires teachers of exceptional ability or of special energy to experience and communicate a never-failing enthusiasm about the chair they are sitting on, or the table placed before them. On the other hand, the author has found that by giving children and other beginners subjects which they like, or which are calculated to excite their curiosity, they will, in order to conquer the point which is luring them, master words and expressions in a time and manner that cannot be secured by the best-arranged methods. It is on this principle that the present book has been prepared. It is intended as a relief to teachers, aud a source of pleasure as well as instruction to young pupils. The pictures have been made as humorous as possible. They are exact illustrations of the text following them, having been drawn expressly to accompany it. Part II. contains a considerable amount of excellent reading material, interesting and at the same time easy. E. S. Joynes, Prof. of Modern Languages, South Carolina College: It makes the beginning of French so charming that all the children who see it will be crying to learn French. I have never seen any similar book so exquisitely conceived and so faithfully and beautifully executed. (Feb. 20, 1887.) Le Francais, Boston: C'est bien là le livre que les maîtres devraient mettre entre les mains des enfants américains qui étudient notre langue. (February, 1887.) A. La Lande, Teacher of French, Home School, Darien, Conn.: I consider the book absolutely perfect. |