THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY In 63 volumes, price 1s. each, or in parchment binding, 1s. 6d. May now also be had with the books arranged in historical order, and uniformly bound in 21 volumes, price 3s. 6d. each. VOL. For the complete set, £3, 13s. 6d. to LIST OF THE VOLUMES. I. Homer's Iliad. The Plays of Eschylus and Sophocles. [B.C. 800 to B.C. 405.] II. The Plays of Euripides. [B.C. 455 to B. C. 408.] III. Three Plays of Aristophanes. The Politics of Aristotle. Virgil's Æneid. [B.C. 425 to B.C. 19.] IV. Hitopadesa. Mediæval Tales. The Chronicle of the Cid. [A.D. 1100 to A.D. 1473.] V. The Divine Comedy and the Banquet of Dante. Boccaccio's Decameron. [A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1350.] VI. Thomas à Kempis. Cavendish's Life of Wolsey. Ideal Commonwealths (namely, Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, and Campanella's City of the Sun). [A.D. 1425 to A.D. 1630.] VII. Machiavelli's Prince. Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. [A.D. 1513 to A.D. 1553.] VIII. Plays and Poems by George Peele. Drayton's Barons' Wars. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity: Books I.-IV. [A.D. 1584 to A.D. 1603.] IX. Bacon's Essays. Plays and Poems by Ben Jonson. Herrick's Hesperides. [A.D. 1597 to A.D. 1648.] X. Don Quixote. Burlesque Plays and Poems (namely, Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle, Buckingham's Rehearsal, John Philips's Splendid Shilling, Fielding's Tom Thumb, Henry Carey's Chrononhotonthologos, Canning Ellis and Frere's Rovers, Rhodes's Bombastes Furioso, H. and J. Smith's Rejected Addresses, Thomas Hood's Odes and Addresses. [A.D. 1605 to A.D. 1825.] XI. Hobbes's Leviathan. Harrington's Oceana. Famous Pamphlets (namely, Milton's Areopagitica, Sexby's Killing no Murder, Defoe's Shortest Way with the Dissenters, Steele's Crisis, Whately's Historic Doubts relative to Buonaparte. [A. D. 1644 to A. D. 1795.] XII. Butler's Hudibras. Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, and George Herbert. Plays from Molière by English Dramatists. [A.D. 1663 to A.D. 1753.] Defoe's XIII. Two Treatises on Civil Government, by John Locke. VOL. XIV. Butler's Analogy of Religion. Voltaire's Candide. Johnson's Rasselas. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. [A.D. 1736 to A.D. 1766.] XV. Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Two Speeches on Conciliation with America, and Two Letters on Irish Questions by Edmund Burke. Sheridan's Plays. [A.D. 1759 to A.D. 1779.] XVI. The Two Parts of Goethe's Faust (with Marlowe's Faustus), Schiller's Poems and Ballads, translated by Edward, Lord Lytton. [A.D. 1780 to A.D. 1831.] XVII. Tales of Terror and Wonder, by M. G. Lewis. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas de Quincey. Essays of Elia, Charles Lamb. [A.D. 1800 to A.D. 1824.] XVIII. Southey's Life of Nelson. Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft. Coleridge's Table-Talk. [A.D. 1813 to A.D. 1834.] XIX. Stories of Ireland, by Maria Edgeworth. Popular Songs of Ireland, collected by Thomas Crofton Croker; Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, by Allan Cunningham. [A.D. 1800 to A.D. 1839.] XX. Praed's Essays. Walker's Original; and Cobbett's Advice to Young Men. [A.D. 1821 to A.D. 1835.] XXI. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Essays, Representative Men and Society and Solitude, by R. W. Emerson. A Miscellany (containing Richard of Bury's Philobiblon, The Basilikon Dōron of King James I., Monks and Giants, by John Hookham Frere; The Cypress Crown, by De la Motte Fouqué; and The Library, by George Crabbe). THE CARISBROOKE LIBRARY continues the work of its predecessor, in half-crown volumes, with some changes of form and method. The volumes VOL. are published in alternate months. I. The Tale of a Tub, and other Works, by Jonathan Swift. III. The Earlier Life and the Chief Earlier Works of Daniel IV. Early Prose Romances. V. English Prose Writings of John Milton. VI. Parodies and other Burlesque Pieces by Canning, Ellis, and Frere. VII. Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, translated by Edward Fairfax. VIII. London under Elizabeth: being the "Survey of London," by John Stow. IX. Ben Jonson's Masques. X. Ireland under Elizabeth and James. |