English Prose Selections. Edited by Henry Craik. VoL IV., Eighteenth
Century. (Macmillan and Co.)—The present volume takes in a large range of writers from Conyers Middleton (1683- 1715) to Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). The authors included Lord Chesterfield, Johnson, Thomas Warton, Boswell, Madame D'Arblay, Isaac Disraeli, and Maria Edgeworth, by the editor ; Middleton, Bishop Berkeley, Fielding, Smollett, Gibbon, and Henry Mac- kenzie (" The Man of Feeling "), by Mr. G. Saintsbury ; W. Law, John Wesley, and S. Horsley, by Canon Ov erton ; Richardson, Joseph Priestley, W. Paley, Dugald Stewart, W. Cobbett, and J. Mackintosh, by Mr. J. Boner ; W. Warburton and Burke, by W. Macneill Dixon, and D. Hume, by Mr. J. H. Millar ; Sterne, by Mr. H. D. Trail" ; Gray, by Professor Hales ; Horace Walpole and W. Cowper, by Professor Ker ; Gilbert White, by Mr. Norman Moore; William Robertson, by Mr. W. Wallace ; Sir Joshua Reynolds and Hannah More, by Mr. R. 0. Johnson ; Oliver Gold- smith, by Mr. Austin Dobson ; Jeremy Bentham, by Mr. F. C. Montagu; and W. Berkford, by Mr. W. J. Garnett.
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