THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIBRARY
NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS
Selected and edited by BYRON JOHNSON REES Professor of English at Williams College
Contains letters from Blake, Wordsworth, Smith, Southey, Lamb, Irving, Keats, Emerson, Lincoln, Thackeray, Huxley, Meredith, “Lewis Carroll,” Phillips Brooks, Sidney Lanier, and Stevenson.
.PAST AND PRESENT
By Tuomas CarRLyLE
~ With an Introduction by . EDWIN W. MIMS Professor of English at Vanderbilt University
“Past and Present,” written in 1843, when the industrial revolu- tions had just taken place in England and when democracy and freedom were the watchwords of liberals and progressives, reads like a contemporary volume on industrial and social problems.
BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON
Abridged and edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by CHARLES G. OSGOOD Professor of English at Princeton University
Seldom has an abridgment been made with as great skill in omit- ting nothing vital and keeping proper proportions as this edition by Professor Osgood.
AMERICAN BALLADS AND SONGS
Collected and edited by
LOUISE POUND Professor of English, University of Nebraska
An anthology intended to present to lovers of traditional songs such selections as illustrate the main classics and types having currency in English-speaking North America. It includes a number of imported ballads and songs, Western songs, dialogue and nursery songs, ete.
