A Text-Book on English Literature,

With copious extracts from the leading authors, English and American. With full Instructions as to the Method in which these are to be studied. Adapted for use in Colleges, High Schools, Academies, ete. By BRAINERD KELLOGG, A.M., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, Author of a "Text-Book on Rhetoric," and one of the Authors of Reed & Kellogg's "Graded Lessons in English," and "Higher Lessons in English." Handsomely printed. 12mo, 478 pp.

The Book is divided into the following Periods:

Period I.-Before the Norman Conquest, 670-1066. Period II.From the Conquest to Chaucer's death, 1066-1400. Period III. From Chaucer's death to Elizabeth, 1400-1558. Period IV.-Elizabeth's reign, 1558-1603. Period V.-From Elizabeth's death to the Restoration, 1603-1660. Period VI.-From the Restoration to Swift's death, 1660-1745. Period VII.-From Swift's death to the French Revolution, 1745-1789. Period VIII.—From the French Revolution, 1789, onwards.

Each Period is preceded by a Lesson containing a brief resumé of the great historical events that have had somewhat to do in shaping or in coloring the literature of that period.

The author aims in this book to furnish the pupil that which he cannot help himself to. It groups the authors so that their places in the line and their relations to each other can be seen by the pupil; it throws light upor the authors' times and surroundings, and notes the great influences at work, helping to make their writings what they are; it points out such of these as should be studied.

Extracts, as many and as ample as the limits of a text-book would allow, have been made from the principal writers of each Period. Such are selected as contain the characteristic traits of their authors, both in thought and expression, and but few of these extracts have ever seen the light in books of selections-none of them have been worn threadbare by use, or have lost their freshness by the pupil's familiarity with hem in the school readers.

It teaches the pupil how the selections are to be studied, soliciting and exacting his judgment at every step of the way which leads from the author's diction up through his style and thought to the author himself, and in many other ways it places the pupil on the best possible footing with the authors whose acquaintance it is his business, as well as his pleasure, to

make.

Short estimates of the leading authors, made by the best English and American critics, have been inserted, most of them contemporary with us. The author has endeavored to make a practical, common-sense textbook: one that would so educate the student that he would know and enjoy good literature.

"I find the book in its treatment of English literature superior to any other I have examined. Its main feature, which should be the leading one of all similar books, is that it is a means to an end, simply a guide-book to the study of English literature. Too many students in the past have studied, not the literature of the English language, but some author's opinion of that literature. I know from experience that your method of treatment will prove an eminently successful one."— James H. Shults, Prin. of the West High School, Cleveland, O.

CLARK & MAYNARD, Publishers, New York.