This is a selection in a single volume from the great edition of the ballads by Professor Child. It is equally for the student and the reader. In the _Cambridge Poets_, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. _Specimens of English Dramatic Poets_, edited by CHARLES LAMB. Passages that pleased Lamb in the works of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Interesting to a reader of Elizabethan drama and to a reader of Lamb. INDIVIDUAL POETS ÆSCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.). _Lyrical Dramas._ In _Everyman’s Library_. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1836-1907). _Poems._ Household Edition. Aldrich was a careful editor of his own work and this volume is complete in its inclusions and its omissions. It is one of the few volumes of American poetry worth owning. ARISTOPHANES (about 450-380 B.C.). _Comedies._ In two volumes of _Bohn’s Library_, translated by W. J. Hickie. MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-88). _Poetical Works._ The Globe Edition, published by Macmillan, which costs $1.75, is the best. Most of the chief British poets can be had in this edition. The Cambridge Edition, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., costs a little more the volume, but it is preferable on the whole in point of manufacture and readability. The young reader of Arnold may begin with the narrative poem, “Sohrab and Rustum.” FRANCIS BEAUMONT (158?-1616). _Dramatic Works._ The best selection of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher is the two volumes, edited by J. St. Loe Strachey in the _Mermaid Series_, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. In this series are, in the words of the title page, “The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.” A taste for Elizabethan drama is as well left undeveloped until after a fair acquaintance has been formed with the plays of Shakespeare. WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827). _Songs of Innocence._ _Songs of Experience._ There are several collections of Blake’s lyrics in single-volume editions. A good one is that with an introductory essay by Lawrence Housman. Blake’s lyrics of children and his “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright” will be found in many of the anthologies. THOMAS EDWARD BROWN (1830-97). _Collected Poems._ A remarkable English poet, but little known to the general public until the posthumous publication of his work in 1900 by Macmillan & Co., in the single-volume Globe Edition, which contains the works of Shelley, Tennyson, and other great poets; Brown is worthy of that distinguished company. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1809-61). _Poetical Works._ In one volume, in Macmillan’s Globe Edition. “The Sonnets from the Portuguese” are to be found in a small volume by themselves. They are the best of Mrs. Browning’s work. The new reader of Mrs. Browning should begin after page 150 in the Macmillan edition and read only the shorter poems. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89). _Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works._