"Will outbid all rivals."-THE BOOKMAN JOHN LONG'S CARLTON CLASSICS The first twelve only are bound in decorative paper covers A Sentimental Journey The Blessed Damozel, and other Poems DANTE G. ROSSETTI On Heroes and Hero-Worship Sonnets and Poems THOMAS CARLYLE The Dunciad, and other Poems . Essays (Selected) Letters of Junius EDMUND SPENSER MARK TWAIN ROBERT BURNS LEIGH HUNT ANONYMOUS THOMAS HOOD Confessions of an English Opium Eater THOMAS DE QUINCEY A Voyage to Lilliput Grace Abounding Critical Essays DEAN SWIFT JOHN BUNYAN MATTHEW ARNOLD PERCY B. SHELLEY BEN JONSON FRANCIS BACON JOHN MILTON EDMUND BURKE HENRY FIELDING JAMES A. FROUDE Other Volumes in Preparation JOHN LONG, PUBLISHER, LONDON Foundation Turner = 190 745741 Biographical Introduction LESS is known about Henry Fielding than of many of the celebrities of the preceding century. When the facts and circumstances of his life might easily have been discovered, there was no one who cared sufficiently to make investigation and we can never know much of him. Fielding's earliest biographer collected and presented a picture of him drawn from contemporary tradition, but his work is misleading, and he did not trouble to obtain trustworthy information from Fielding's widow, brother and sister, who were still alive. Fielding died young. When he was thirty-five years of age he was undistinguished, and twelve years later he was dead. If Dr Johnson had died at forty-seven, instead of at seventy-five, we should have known little or nothing of him. |