Select Essays of Macaulay Edited by SAMUEL THURBER, of the Girls' High School, Boston. 12mo, cloth, 219 pages. Price, 70 cents. HIS selection comprises the essays on Milton, Bunyan, John tions both of Macaulay's earlier and of his later style. The notes are intended to help the pupil to help himself. When an allusion is not easily understood, a note briefly explains it, or at least indicates where an explanation may be found. In other cases the pupil is expected to rely on his own efforts, and on such assistance as his teacher may think it wise to give. Historical Essays of Macaulay Edited by SAMUEL THURBER. 12mo, cloth, 399 pages. Price, 80 cents. THIS HIS selection includes the essays on Lord Clive, Warren Hastings, and both the essays on the Earl of Chatham. The text in each case is given entire. A map of India, giving the location of places named in the essays, is included. These essays are annotated on the same principle that is followed in the notes to the Select Essays. Select Essays of Addison With Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Edited by SAMUEL THURBER. 12mo, cloth, 340 pages. Price, 80 cents. THE HE editor has aimed to bring together such papers from the Spectator, the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Freeholder as will prove most readable to youth of high school age, and at the same time give something like an adequate idea of the richness of Addison's vein. The De Coverley Papers are of course included. There are seventy selections in all. They have to do with the Spectator Club, the Stage, Manners, Politics, Morals, and Religion. There are selections from Addison's Stories and his Hymns. The book contains also Macaulay's Essay on Addison. 11 |
