THE BRITISH POETS,

PUBLISHED BY

LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY.

EDITED BY PROFESSOR CHILD,

OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

A COMPLETE COLLECTION, FROM CHAUCER TO

WORDSWORTH.

THIS Series of BRITISH POETS has secured the unqualified commendation of the press and the public in all parts of the country, and is universally acknowledged to be the best ever issued, both in point of editorship and mechanical execution.

Notices of the Press.

"We cannot speak too highly in praise of this edition - the only one that deserves the name of 'complete' - of the British Poets.". - Boston Daily Advertiser.

"We really know nothing more worthy of the cordial support of the American public than the Boston edition of the English Poets."- New York Times.

"A fairer printed, a more tasteful or more valuable, set of books cannot be placed in any library."- New York Courier and Enquirer.

"The best, the most permanently valuable, the most con(1)

venient, and the cheapest edition of the standard poetical literature of Great Britain ever published."— Home Journal.

"We regard it as the most beautiful and convenient library edition of the British Poets yet published."— Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

"We do not know any other edition of the English Poets wwhich combines so much excellence." - Bibliotheca Sacra.

*We have in Press, and shall issue soon, the

The remainder of the series will be published as

fast as the volumes can be prepared.