Caxton, Morte D'Arthur, 1485; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 1532; Bacon, Essays, 1740; Thos. Dekker, Gull's Horn Book, 1608; Jeremy Taylor, Holy Dying, 1651; Thos. Fuller, Holy and Profane States, 1642; Cowley, Prose Works, Several Discourses, 1668; The Guardian, 1729; The Examiner, 1710; The Tatler, 1709; Wm. Cobbett, Rural Rides, 1830; Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, 1762; Addison and Steele, The Spectator, 1711; The Rambler, 1750-52; The Adventurer, 1753; Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823, 1833; Hazlitt, Comic Writers, 1819; Table Talk, 1821-22; The New Monthly Magazine, 1826-27; Coleridge, Literaria Biographia, 1817; Wordsworth, Prose Works, 1876; John Brown, Rab and his Friends, 1858; Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, 1863; Carlyle, Edinburgh Review, 1831; Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, 1857; Shelley, Essays, 1840; Leigh Hunt, The Indicator, 1820; Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village, 1827-32; De Quincey, Collected Works, 1853-60; R.L. Stevenson, Memories and Portraits, 1887; Edmund Gosse (The Realm), 1895; Austin Dobson, Eighteenth Century Vignettes, 1892; Alice Meynell, Colour of Life, 1896; G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant, 1901; E.V. Lucas, Fireside and Sunshine, 1906, Character and Comedy, 1907; Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta (second series), 1887; W.B. Yeats, Celtic Twilight, 1893; Edward Thomas, The South Country, 1909; Hilaire Belloc, First and Last, 1911. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction vii 1. A Printer's Prologue Wm. Caxton, _Morte D'Arthur_ 1 2. Dame Prudence on Riches Geoffrey Chaucer, _Tale of Melibeus_ 4 3. Of Painting the Face T.T., _New Essays_, 1614 8 4. Hamlet's Advice to the Players Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ 10 5. Of Adversity Francis Bacon, _Essays_ 11 6. Of Travel " " " 12 7. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self " " " 14 8. Of Ambition " " " 15 9. Of Gardens " " " 17 10. Of Studies " " " 22 11. The Good Schoolmaster Thomas Fuller, _Holy and Profane States_ 24 12. On Death Jeremy Taylor, _Holy Living and Holy Dying_ 27 13. Of Winter Thomas Dekker 30 14. How a Gallant should behave himself in a Play-house Thomas Dekker, _Gull's Horn Book_ 31