[Illustration] [Illustration: Oliver Goldsmith] DALZIELS' ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH: COMPRISING of THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD THE TRAVELLER THE DESERTED VILLAGE THE HAUNCH OF VENISON THE CAPTIVITY: AN ORATORIO RETALIATION MISCELLANEOUS POEMS THE GOOD-NATURED MAN SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER AND A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, BY H. W. DULCKEN, PH. D. WITH ONE HUNDRED PICTURES DRAWN BY G. J. PINWELL, ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL. WARD, LOCK AND CO., LONDON: WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK: 10 BOND STREET. [Illustration: Publisher] CONTENTS. PAGE A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH vi THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD 1 THE TRAVELLER 175 THE DESERTED VILLAGE 189 THE HAUNCH OF VENISON 202 THE CAPTIVITY 205 RETALIATION 212 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 225 THE GOOD-NATURED MAN 266 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER 361 A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. The middle of the last century was an evil time, in England, for literature and for literary men. The period was eminently one of transition; and transition periods are always times of trial to all whose interests they affect. The old system passes away, bearing with it those who cling to it; the new system requires time until it is in working order, and those who depend upon its advent for their subsistence are sorely harassed while the turmoil lasts. Thus it was with literature at the time when Goldsmith began to write. The age in which literary men depended upon patrons had passed away. No more snug government berths, no more secretaryships, as in the time of Addison and Prior and Steele—and the time when the public was to support literature had not yet come.