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The Warner Classics

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Special Souvenir Issue of the Fine Essays in Literary
Interpretation from the

Charles Dudley Warner Library

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Vol. I.-The Philosophers DARWIN, by Prof. E. Ray Lankester; ARISTOTLE, by Prof. Davidson; BACON, by Charlton T. Lewis; NEWMAN, by R. H. Hutton.

Vol. II.-The Novelists HAWTHORNE, by Henry James; BALZAC, by Prof. W. P. Trent; GEORGE ELIOT, by Prof. Chas. Waldstein.

Vol. III.-The Poets BYRON, by Charles Dudley Warner; DANTE, by Chas. Eliot Norton; TENNYSON, by Dr. Henry van Dyke.

Vol. IV.-Historians and Essayists GIBBON, by W. E. H. Lecky; CARLYLE, by Leslie Stephen; EMERSON, by Richard Garnett; MATTHEW ARNOLD, by Prof. Woodberry.

Signalling the extraordinary success of CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER'S NEW LIBRARY, Harper's Weekly Club, through which the LIBRARY is being distributed, has issued in Little Classic form, as a souvenir, a representative series of the fine critical and interpretative studies which form so notable a feature of this monumental publication.

The series consists of four handsome little volumes, containing fourteen essays, and bound in two different styles, one in cloth, and the other in full leather. They are sold at a merely nominal price, and are intended to acquaint lovers of literature who have not yet had occasion or opportunity to examine the LIBRARY itself, with its high character, and the wonderful variety and interest of its contents.

The studies here reprinted have been specially prepared for Mr. Warner's LIBRARY by the foremost living men of letters alike in America and Europe. Each has been written by a recognized authority upon the subject or author treated.

Charles Dudley Warner himself writes of Byron; Henry James has dealt with the subtle genius of Hawthorne with his accustomed exquisite felicity; and that distinguished Harvard scholar, Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, has given a masterly review of Dante.

Then again, both Prof. Lankester of Oxford, who writes upon Darwin and Huxley, and Prof. Waldstein of Cambridge (England), who writes upon George Eliot, were personal friends of those of whom they treat, and their essays are a charming combination of reminiscence, exposition, and

criticism.

The historian Lecky, whose own studies have lain in the period covered by the "Decline and Fall," is peculiarly fitted to write of Gibbon, and the same might be said of Leslie Stephen, who portrays Carlyle. The examples we give will suffice to indicate the quality of all.

These studies, chosen from over a thousand of like quality and character comprised in the LIBRARY, have, as their general aim, sympathetic interpretation such as will stimulate a more general reading of the world's greater authors. They are delightfully free from pedantry at once scholarly and popular in the best sense; while many are of truly brilliant workmanship. The volumes are embellished with costly engravings of the subjects of each essay-many of these being from rare sources, and beautiful examples of the engraver's art; likewise fine half-tone portraits are given of the writers of the essays.

None of the studies requires more than half an hour for its perusal; the volumes are of such handy size that they may be slipped into the pocket and read on the train or to and from business, and in their handsome and tasteful bindings are an admirable addition to the library or drawing-room table.

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