RICHARD BURTON'S
            MASTERS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL

    A study of principles and personalities by the Professor
 of English Literature, University of Minnesota, author of
 " Literary Likings," " Forces in Fiction," " Rahab "      (a
 Poetic Drama), etc. 12mo, 331 pp. and index. 1.2f
 net.
   'Noteworthy American volume of literary criticism . . . a well-balanced.
 discerning and unhackneyed study . . . delightfully readable.
 In his judgment of individual books and authors Mr. Burton is refreshingly
 sane and trustworthy . . . an inspiring survey of the whole trend of
 fiction from Richardson to Howells, with a valuable intermediary chapter
 on Stendhal and the French realists, all presented in a style of genuine
 charm and rare flexibility . . . may be warranted to interest and inspire
 any serious lover of fiction.'- Chicago Record-Herald.
 "Rare sympathy and scholarly understanding . .  hook that should l e
 read and re-read by every lover of the English novel."-Boston Thon.,

                    RICHARD BURTON'S
     RAHAB, A DRAMA OF THE FALL OF JERICHO
   119 pp., 12mo. 1.25 net; by mail, 1.33. With east of
characters for the first performance and pictures of the
scenes.
  " A poetic drama of high quality. Plenty of dramatic action."
  -Neit York Times Resiew.

               WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE'S
THE GREATER ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH
                          CENTURY
  383 pp., large 12mo. 2.00 net: by mail, 2.15.    Studies
of Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge. Wordsworth, Landor,
Browning, Tennyson. Arnold , Rossetti, Morris. and Swin-
burne. Their outlook upon life rather than their strictly
literary achievement is kept mainly in view.
  " The sound and mellow fruits of his long career as a critic.
There is not a lrasb, trivial, or dull line in the whole book.
Its charming sanity has seduedq nm into reading it to the end, and
anyone who does the same will feel that he has bad an inspiring
taste of everything that is finest in nineteenth-century poetry.
Ought to be read and reread by every student of literature, and
most of all by those who have neoglected English poetry, for here
one fintis its essence in brief eompass."-Chicago Record-Herald.

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