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An English Library: Period II
After dealing with the formation of a library of authors up to John Dryden, I must logically arrange next a scheme for the period covered roughly by the eighteenth century. There is, however, no reason why the student in quest of a library should follow the chronological order. Indeed, I should advise him to attack the nineteenth century before the eighteenth, for the reason that, unless his taste happens to be peculiarly "Augustan," he will obtain a more immediate satisfaction and profit from his acquisitions in the nineteenth century than in the eighteenth. There is in eighteenth-century literature a considerable proportion of what I may term "unattractive excellence," which one must have for the purposes of completeness, but which may await actual perusal until more pressing and more human books have been read. I have particularly in mind the philosophical authors of the century.
PROSE WRITERS.
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JOHN LOCKE, Philosophical Works: Bohn's Edition (2 vols.) 0 7 0 SIR ISAAC NEWTON, Principia (sections 1, 2, and 3): Macmillan's 0 12 0 Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 William Wycherley, Best Plays: Mermaid Series 0 2 6 WILLIAM CONGREVE, Best Plays: Mermaid Series 0 2 6 Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub: Scott Library 0 1 0 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels: Temple Classics 0 1 6 DANIEL DEFOE, Robinson Crusoe: World's Classics 0 1 0 DANIEL DEFOE, Journal of the Plague Year: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Essays: Scott Library 0 1 0 William Law, Serious Call: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 Lady Mary W. Montagu, Letters: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 George Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge: New Universal Library 0 1 0 SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Clarissa (abridged): Routledge's Edition 0 2 0 John Wesley, Journal: Everyman's Library (4 vols.) 0 4 0 HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones: Routledge's Edition 0 2 0 HENRY FIELDING, Amelia: Routledge's Edition 0 2 0 HENRY FIELDING, Joseph Andrews: Routledge's Edition 0 2 0 David Hume, Essays: World's Classics 0 1 0 LAURENCE STERNE, Tristram Shandy: World's Classics 0 1 0 LAURENCE STERNE, Sentimental Journey: New Universal Library 0 1 0 Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto: King's Classics 0 1 6 Tobias Smollett, Humphrey Clinker: Routledge's Edition 0 2 0 Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy: World's Classics 0 1 0 ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations: World's Classics (2 vols.) 0 2 0 Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets: World's Classics (2 vols.) 0 2 0 Samuel Johnson, Rasselas: 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: Cassell'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 Classics (7 vols.) 0 7 0 Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Watts and Co.'s Edition 0 1 0 RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, Plays: World's Classics 0 1 0 Fanny 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 6 William Godwin, Caleb Williams: Newnes's Edition 0 1 0 Maria Edgeworth, Helen: Macmillan's Illustrated Edition 0 2 6 JANE AUSTEN, Novels: Nelson's New Century Library (2 vols.) 0 4 0 James Morier, Hadji Baba: Macmillan's Illustrated Novels 0 2 6 £5 1 0
The principal omissions here are Jeremy Collier, whose outcry against the immorality of the stage is his slender title to remembrance; Richard Bentley, whose scholarship principally 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 identity.
POETS.
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Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved: Temple Dramatists 0 1 0 Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions: Cambridge English Classics 0 4 6 John Gay, Poems: Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0 ALEXANDER POPE, Works: Globe Edition 0 3 6 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 Classics 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.
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39 prose-writers in 60 volumes, costing 5 1 0
18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0
57 78 £6 8 0
