little to the man, but was intently studying the expression of his face while he was narrating his trouble. When he had finished, Mr. Lincoln said to him, "Have you a blank card?” The man searched his pockets, but finding none, a gentleman standing near, who had overheard the question, came forward, and said, "Here is one, Mr. President." Several persons had, in the meantime, gathered around. Taking the card and a pencil, Mr. Lincoln sat down upon the stone coping, which is not more than five or six inches above the pavement, presenting almost the appearance of sitting upon the pavement itself, and wrote an order upon the card to the proper official to "examine this man's case." While writing this, I observed several persons passing down the promenade, smiling at each other, at what I presume they thought the undignified appearance of the Head of the Nation, who, however, seemed utterly unconscious, either of any impropriety in the action, or of attracting any attention. To me it was not only a touching picture of the native goodness of the man, but of innate nobility of character, exemplified not so much by a disregard of conventionalities, as in unconsciousness that there could be any breach of etiquette, or dignity, in the manner of an honest attempt to serve, or secure justice to a citizen of the Republic, however humble he may be

A CLASSIFIED LIST OF THE 961 VOLUMES
In each of the thirteen classifications in this list (except BIOGRAPHY)
the volumes are arranged alphabetically under the authors' names,
but Anthologies and works by various hands are listed under titles.
Where authors appear in more than one section, a cross-reference
is given, viz.: (See also FICTION). The number at the end of each
item is the number of the volume in the series.

All the volumes are obtainable in the standard Cloth binding;
selected volumes obtainable in Leather are marked L.

BIOGRAPHY

Audubon the Naturalist, Life and Adventures of. By R. Buchanan. 601
Baxter (Richard), Autobiography of. Ed. by Rev. J. M. Lloyd Thomas. 868
Beaconsfield (Lord), Life of. By J. A. Froude. 666

Berlioz (Hector), Life of. Translated by Katherine F. Boult.

602

Blackwell (Dr Elizabeth): Pioneer Work for Women. With an Introduc-
tion by Mrs Fawcett.

667

Brontë (Charlotte), Life of. By Mrs Gaskell. Intro. by May Sinclair. 318
(See also FICTION)

Browning (Robert), Life of.

By E. Dowden.

701

(See also POETRY AND DRAMA)

Burney (Fanny), Diary. A selection edited by Lewis Gibbs. 960
Burns (Robert), Life of. By J. G. Lockhart.

(See also POETRY AND DRAMA)

Intro. by E. Rhys.

156

773

Buxton (Sir Thomas Fowell), Memoirs of. Ed. by Charles Buxton.
L Byron's Letters. Introduction by André Maurois.

(See also POETRY AND DRAMA)

931

Carey (William), Life of: Shoemaker and Missionary. By George Smith. 395
Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Cromwell.

3 vols. 266-8

Reminiscences. 875 (See also ESSAYS and HISTORY)

Cellini's (Benvenuto) Autobiography. 51

Cibber's (Colley) An Apology for his Life.

Columbus, Life of. By Sir Arthur Helps.

668

332

Constable (John), Memoirs of. By C. R. Leslie, R.A. 563

Cowper (William), Selected Letters of. Intro. by W. Hadley, M.A. 774
(See also POETRY AND DRAMA)

De Quincey's Reminiscences of the Lake Poets. Intro. by E. Rhys. 163
(See also ESSAYS)

De Retz (Cardinal): Memoirs. By Himself.

2 vols. 735-6

Dickens (Charles), Life of. By John Forster. Introduction by G. K.
Chesterton. 2 vols. 781-2 (See also FICTION)

Disraeli (Benjamin), Life of. By J. A. Froude. 666
Evelyn's Diary. 2 vols. Introduction by G. W. E. Russell.
Fox (George), Journal of. Text revised by Norman Penney.
Franklin's (Benjamin) Autobiography. 316
Gibbon (Edward), Autobiography of. 511

220-1

754

(See also HISTORY)

401

Gladstone, Life of. By G. W. E. Russell (' Onlooker '). 661
Goethe, Life of. By G. H. Lewes. Intro. by Havelock Ellis. 269
Hastings (Warren), Life of. By Capt. L. J. Trotter. 452
Hodson of Hodson's Horse. By Capt. L. J. Trotter.
Hudson (W. H.), Far Away and Long Ago.
Hutchinson (Col.), Memoirs of. Intro. Monograph by F. P. G. Guizot. 317
L Johnson (Dr Samuel), Life of. By James Boswell. 2 vols.

Keats (John), Life and Letters of. By Lord Houghton.
by R. Lynd. 801 (See also POETRY AND DRAMA)

Lamb (Charles), Letters of. 2 vols. 342-3

Introduction

(See also ESSAYS and FOR YOUNG PEOPLE)
Lincoln (Abraham), Life of. By Henry Bryan Binns, 783 (See also ORATORY)
Mahomet, Life of. By Washington Irving. Intro. Prof. E. V. Arnold. 513

Issued April 1940

Mazzini, Life of.
Mozart, Life of.
Napoleon, Life of.
Nelson, Life of.

By Edward Holmes. Intro. by Ernest Newman. 564

By J. G. Lockhart.
By Robert Southey.

52

3

[of Newcastle. 722
Newcastle (First Duke of), Life of, and other writings. By the Duchess
Outram (Sir J.), The Bayard of India. By Capt. L. J. Trotter. 396
L Pepys's Diary. Lord Braybrooke's 1854 ed. 2 vols. 53-4
Plutarch's Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans. Dryden's Translation.
Revised, with Introduction, by Arthur Hugh Clough. 3 vols. 407-9
Rousseau, Confessions of. 2 vols. 859-60

Scott (Sir Walter), Life of (abridged). By J. G. Lockhart. 55
Scott's Lives of the Novelists. Introduction by George Saintsbury.
(See also FICTION and POETRY)

Seebohm (Frederic): The Oxford Reformers.

665

Shakespeare, Life and Work of. By Oliphant Smeaton. 514

head.

(See also POETRY AND DRAMA)

331

Swift's Journal to Stella. Newly deciphered and edited by J. K. Moor-
Introduction by Sir Walter Scott. 757
(See also ESSAYS and FICTION)

Vasari's Lives of the Painters. Trans. by A. B. Hinds. 4 vols. 784-7
Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. Introduction by Rt Hon. J. Burns. 270

(See also FICTION)

Walpole (Horace), Selected Letters of.

Intro. by W. Hadley, M.A. 775

105-8
Introduction by Vida D.

Wellington, Life of. By G. R. Gleig. 341
Wesley's Journal. 4 vols. Intro. by Rev. F. W. Macdonald.
Woolman's (John) Journal and Other Papers.
Scudder. 402

CLASSICAL

Eschylus' Lyrical Dramas. Translated by Professor J. S. Blackie.
Aristophanes' The Frogs, The Clouds, The Thesmophorians.

The Acharnians, The Knights, and The Birds. Frere's
Translation. Introduction by John P. Maine. 344
Aristotle's Politics. Introduction by A. D. Lindsay. 605
Poetics, etc., and Demetrius on Style, etc. Edited by Rev. T. A.
Moxon. 901 (See also PHILOSOPHY)

"

Caesar's The Gallic War and Other Commentaries. Translated by W. A.
McDevitte. 702

Intro. Note by de Quincey.

Cicero's Essays and Select Letters.
345
Epictetus, Moral Discourses, etc. Elizabeth Carter's Translation. Edited
by W. H. D. Rouse, M.A.

404

Euripides' Plays in 2 vols. Introduction by V. R. Reynolds. Translated
by M. Wodhull and R. Potter, with Shelley's Cyclops' and Dean
Milman's' Bacchanals.' 63, 271
Herodotus. Rawlinson's Translation, omitting his Essays, and Appen-
dices. Edited, with Intro., by E. H. Blakeney, M.A. 2 vols.

L Homer's Iliad. Lord Derby's Translation.

Odyssey. William Cowper's Translation.
Horace. Complete Poetical Works. 515
Hutchinson's (W. M. L.) The Muses' Pageant. 3 vols. 581, 606, and 671
Livy's History of Rome. Vols. I-VI. Translated by Rev. Canon
Roberts. 603, 669, 670, 749, 755, and 756

9

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things. Translated by W. E. Leonard. 750
L Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. Introduction by W. H. D. Rouse.
Ovid: Selected Works. Edited by J. C. and M. J. Thornton.
Plato's Dialogues. 2 vols. Introduction by A. D. Lindsay. 456-7

L

955

Republic. Translated, with an Introduction, by A. D. Lindsay. 64

Plutarch's Moralia. 20 Essays translated by Philemon Holland.
Sophocles' Dramas. Translated by Sir G. Young, Bart.
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War. Crawley's Translation.
Virgil's Æneid. Translated by E. Fairfax-Taylor. 161

Eclogues and Georgics. Translated by T. F. Royds, M.A. 222
Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Translation revised by Miss F. M. Stawell. 672

ESSAYS AND BELLES-LETTRES
Anthology of Prose. Compiled and Edited by Miss S. L. Edwards. 675
Arnold's (Matthew) Essays. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. 115
Study of Celtic Literature, and other Critical Essays,
with Supplement by Lord Strangford, etc. 4.58
(See also POETRY)

Bacon's Essays. Introduction by Oliphant Smeaton. 10

(See also PHILOSOPHY)

Bagehot's Literary Studies. 2 vols. Intro. by George Sampson. 520-1
Belloc's (Hilaire) Stories, Essays, and Poems.

Brown's Rab and his Friends, etc. 116

948

Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution and contingent Essays.
Introduction by A. J. Grieve, M.A.

(See also ORATORY)

460

Canton's (William) The Invisible_Playmate, W. V., Her Book, and In
(See also FOR YOUNG PEOPLE) [Memory of W. V. 566

608

Carlyle's Essays. 2 vols. With Notes by J. Russell Lowell. 703-4
Past and Present. Introduction by R. W. Emerson.
Sartor Resartus and Heroes and Hero Worship. 278
(See also BIOGRAPHY and HISTORY)

Castiglione's The Courtier. Translated by Sir Thomas Hoby. Intro-

duction by W. H. D. Rouse. 807

L Century of Essays, A. An Anthology of English Essayists.
Chesterfield's (Lord) Letters to his Son. 823

913

653

L Chesterton's (G. K.) Stories, Essays, and Poems.
Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Introduction by Arthur Symons.
Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare, etc. 162
(See also POETRY)

L De la Mare's (Walter) Stories, Essays, and Poems. 940

11

223

De Quincey's (Thomas) Opium Eater. Intro. by Sir G. Douglas.
The English Mail Coach and Other Writings.
Introduction by S. Hill Burton. 609
(See also BIOGRAPHY)

Dryden's Dramatic Essays. With an Introduction by W. H. Hudson. 568
Elyot's Gouernour. Intro. and Glossary by Prof. Foster Watson.

Nature, Conduct of Life, Essays from the Dial.' 322
Representative Men. Introduction by E. Rhys.

Society and Solitude and Other Essays.
(See also POETRY)

567

279

227

Florio's Montaigne. Introduction by A. R. Waller, M.A. 3 vols. 440–2
Froude's Short Studies. Vols. I and II. 13, 705

(See also HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY)

Gilfillan's Literary Portraits. Intro. by Sir W. Robertson Nicoll. 348
Goethe's Conversations with Eckermann. Intro. by Havelock Ellis.
851. (See also FICTION and POETRY)

Goldsmith's Citizen of the World and The Bee. Intro. by R. Church. 902
(See also FICTION and POETRY)

The Round Table and Shakespeare's Characters.
Spirit of the Age and Lectures on English Poets.
Table Talk. 321

Plain Speaker. Introduction by P. P. Howe. 814

Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 66

Professor at the Breakfast Table. 67

L Hudson's (W. H.) A Shepherd's Life. Introduction by Ernest Rhys. 926
Hunt's (Leigh) Selected Essays. Introduction by J. B. Priestley.
L Huxley's (Aldous) Stories, Essays, and Poems. 935

Irving's Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 117

(See also BIOGRAPHY and HISTORY)

L Lamb's Essays of Elia. Introduction by Augustine Birrell. 14
(See also BIOGRAPHY and FOR YOUNG PEOPLE)

829

ESSAYS AND BELLES-LETTRES-continued

Landor's Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A selection.
with Introduction by Havelock Ellis. 890
Lawrence (D. H.), Stories, Essays, and Poems.

Hawkins. 958

Lowell's (James Russell) Among My Books.

607

Edited

Edited by Desmond

Macaulay's Essays. 2 vols. Introduction by A. J. Grieve, M.A. 225-6
Miscellaneous Essays and The Lays of Ancient Rome. 439
(See also HISTORY and ORATORY)

"

Machiavelli's Prince. Special Trans. and Intro. by W. K. Marriott. 280
(See also HISTORY)

Martinengo-Cesaresco (Countess): Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs. 673
Mazzini's Duties of Man, etc. Introduction by Thomas Jones, M.A. 224
Milton's Areopagitica, etc. Introduction by Professor C. E. Vaughan. 795

(See also POETRY)

927

L Mitford's Our Village. Edited, with Intro., by Sir John Squire.
Montagu's (Lady) Letters. Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. 69
Newman's On the Scope and Nature of University Education, and a
paper on Christianity and Scientific Investigation. Introduction by
Wilfred Ward. 723 (See also PHILOSOPHY)

Osborne's (Dorothy) Letters to Sir William Temple. Edited and con-
notated by Judge Parry.

674

Penn's The Peace of Europe. Some Fruits of Solitude, etc.
Prelude to Poetry, The. Edited by Ernest Rhys.
Reynold's Discourses. Introduction by L. March Phillipps.
Rhys's New Book of Sense and Nonsense.
Rousseau's Emile. Translated by Barbara Foxley. 518
(See also PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY)

724

789

118

813

L

L

Ruskin's Crown of Wild Olive and Cestus of Aglaia.
Elements of Drawing and Perspective. 217
Ethics of the Dust. Introduction by Grace Rhys. 282
Modern Painters. 5 vols. Introduction by Lionel Cust. 208-12
Pre-Raphaelitism. Lectures on Architecture_ and Painting,
Academy Notes, 1855-9, and Notes on the Turner Gallery.
Introduction by Laurence Binyon. 218

Sesame and Lilies, The Two Paths, and The King of the Golden
River. Introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. 219

Seven Lamps of Architecture. Intro. by Selwyn Image. 207
Stones of Venice. 3 vols. Intro. by L. March Phillipps. 213-15
Time and Tide with other Essays. 450

Unto This Last. The Political Economy of Art. 216
(See also FOR YOUNG PEOPLE)

164-7

504

Intro.

Spectator, The. 4 vols. Introduction by G. Gregory Smith.
Spencer's (Herbert) Essays on Education. Intro. by C. W. Eliot.
Sterne's Sentimental Journey and Journal and Letters to Eliza.
by George Saintsbury. 796 (See also FICTION)
Stevenson's In the South Seas and Island Nights' Entertainments.
Virginibus Puerisque and Familiar Studies of Men and
Books. 765

(See also FICTION, POETRY, and TRAVEL)
Swift's Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, etc. 347
(See also BIOGRAPHY and FICTION)

Swinnerton's (Frank) The Georgian Literary Scene. 943
Table Talk. Edited by J. C. Thornton.

906

769

Taylor's (Isaac) Words and Places, or Etymological Illustrations of
History, Ethnology, and Geography. Intro. by Edward Thomas. 517
Thackeray's (W. M.) The English Humorists and The Four Georges.
Introduction by Walter Jerrold.

(See also FICTION)

610

Thoreau's Walden. Introduction by Walter Raymond.

281

Trench's On the Study of Words and English Past and Present. Intro-
duction by George Sampson. 788

Tytler's Essay on the Principles of Translation. 168

Walton's Compleat Angler. Introduction by Andrew Lang. 70