Literary Taste: How To Form It Part 5

Tobias Smollett, _Travels through France and Italy_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

ADAM SMITH, _Wealth of Nations_: World's Cla.s.sics (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Samuel Johnson, _Lives of the Poets_: World's Cla.s.sics (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Samuel Johnson, _Ra.s.selas_: New Universal Library 0 1 0

JAMES BOSWELL, _Life of Johnson_: Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Oliver Goldsmith, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 6

Henry Mackenzie, _The Man of Feeling_: Ca.s.sell's National Library 0 0 6

Sir Joshua Reynolds, _Discourses on Art_: Scott Library 0 1 0

Edmund Burke, _Reflections on the French Revolution_: Scott Library 0 1 0

Edmund Burke, _Thoughts on the Present Discontents_: New Universal Library 0 1 0

EDWARD GIBBON, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_: World's Cla.s.sics (7 vols.) 0 7 0

Thomas Paine, _Rights of Man_: Watts and Co.'s Edition 0 1 0

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, _Plays_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

f.a.n.n.y Burney, _Evelina_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Gilbert White, _Natural History of Selborne_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Arthur Young, _Travels in France_: York Library 0 2 0

Mungo Park, _Travels_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Jeremy Bentham, _Introduction to the Principles of Morals_: Clarendon Press 0 6 6

THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, _Essay on the Principle of Population_: Ward, Lock's Edition 0 3 0

William G.o.dwin, _Caleb Williams_: Newnes's Edition 0 1 0

Maria Edgeworth, _Helen_: Macmillan's Ill.u.s.trated Edition 0 2 6

JANE AUSTEN, _Novels_: Nelson's New Century Library (2 vols.) 0 4 0

James Morier, _Hadji Baba_: Macmillan's Ill.u.s.trated Novels 0 2 6 __________ 5 1 0

The princ.i.p.al omissions here are Jeremy Collier, whose outcry against the immorality of the stage is his slender t.i.tle to remembrance; Richard Bentley, whose scholars.h.i.+p princ.i.p.ally died with him, and whose chief works are no longer current; and "Junius," who would have been deservedly forgotten long ago had there been a contemporaneous Sherlock Holmes to ferret out his ident.i.ty.

POETS. s. d.

Thomas Otway, _Venice Preserved_: Temple Dramatists 0 1 0

Matthew Prior, _Poems on Several Occasions_: Cambridge English Cla.s.sics 0 4 6

John Gay, _Poems_: Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

ALEXANDER POPE, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 0

Isaac Watts, _Hymns_: Any hymn-book 0 1 0

James Thomson, _The Seasons_: Muses'

Library 0 1 0

Charles Wesley, _Hymns_: Any hymn-book 0 1 0

THOMAS GRAY, Samuel Johnson, William Collins, _Poems_: Muses' Library 0 1 0

James Macpherson (Ossian), _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

THOMAS CHATTERTON, _Poems_: Muses'

Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

WILLIAM COWPER, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

WILLIAM COWPER, _Letters_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

George Crabbe, _Poems_: Methuen's Little Library 0 1 6

WILLIAM BLAKE, _Poems_: Muses' Library 0 1 0

William Lisle Bowles, Hartley Coleridge, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

ROBERT BURNS, _Works_: Globe Edition 0 3 6 __________ 1 7 0

SUMMARY OF THE PERIOD.

39 prose writers in 60 volumes, costing 5 1 0 18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0 __ __ __________ 57 78 6 8 0

CHAPTER XIII

AN ENGLISH LIBRARY: PERIOD III