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BJÖRNSON'S Arne and the Fisher

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Cecilia. With Introduction and Notes by A. R. Ellis. 2 vols.

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WEBSTER'S

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OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Thoroughly revised and improved by CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH, D.D., LL.D., and NOAH PORTER, D.D., of Yale College.

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1. BACON'S ESSAYS. With Introduction and Notes.

2. LESSING'S LAOKOON. Beasley's Translation, revised, with Introduction, Notes, &c., by Edward Bell, M.A.

3. DANTE'S INFERNO. Translated, with Notes, by Rev. H. F. Cary. 4. GOETHE'S FAUST. Part I. Translated, with Introduction, by

Anna Swanwick.

5. GOETHE'S BOYHOOD. Being Part I. of the Autobiography. Translated by J. Oxenford.

6. SCHILLER'S MARY STUART and THE MAID OF ORLEANS. Translated by J. Mellish and Anna Swanwick.

7. THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH. By the late Dean Alford.

8. LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE LATE THOMAS BRASSEY. By Sir A. Helps, K.C.B.

9. PLATO'S DIALOGUES: The Apology-Crito-Phaedo-Protagoras.

With Introductions.

10. MOLIÈRE'S PLAYS: The Miser-Tartuffe-The Shopkeeper turned

Gentleman. With brief Memoir.

II. GOETHE'S REINEKE FOX, in English Hexameters. By A. Rogers 12. OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S PLAYS.

13. LESSING'S PLAYS: Nathan the Wise-Minna von Barnhelm. 14. PLAUTUS'S COMEDIES: Trinummus - Menaechmi - Aulularia – Captivi.

15. WATERLOO DAYS. BY C. A. Eaton. With Preface and Notes by

Edward Bell.

16. DEMOSTHENES-ON THE CROWN.

Kennedy.

17. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.

Translated by C. Rann

18. OLIVER CROMWELL. By Dr. Reinhold Pauli.

19. THE PERFECT LIFE. By Dr. Channing. Edited by his nephew,

Rev. W. H. Channing.

20. LADIES IN PARLIAMENT, HORACE AT ATHENS and other pieces,

by Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart.

21. DEFOE'S THE PLAGUE IN LONDON.

22. IRVING'S LIFE OF MAHOMET.

23. HORACE'S ODES, by various hands.

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24. BURKE'S ESSAY ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.'

Short Memoir.

25. HAUFF'S CARAVAN.

26. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS.

27. DANTE'S PURGATORIO. Translated by Cary.

28. HARVEY'S TREATISE ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

29. CICERO'S FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE.

30. DANTE'S PARADISO. Translated by Cary.

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