Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON ESSAYS BY WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY SIR GEORGE YOUNG, BART., Μ.A. _WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY_ LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL GLASGOW AND NEW YORK 1887 MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY. 1. _Sheridan’s Plays._ 2. _Plays from Molière._ By English Dramatists. 3. _Marlow’s Faustus_ and _Goethe’s Faust_. 4. _Chronicle of the Cid._ 5. _Rabelais’ Gargantua_ and the _Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel_. 6. _Machiavelli’s Prince._ 7. _Bacon’s Essays._ 8. _Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year._ 9. _Locke on Civil Government_ and _Filmer’s “Patriarcha.”_ 10. _Butler’s Analogy of Religion._ 11. _Dryden’s Virgil._ 12. _Scott’s Demonology and Witchcraft._ 13. _Herrick’s Hesperides._ 14. _Coleridge’s Table-Talk._ 15. _Boccaccio’s Decameron._ 16. _Sterne’s Tristram Shandy._ 17. _Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad._ 18. _Mediæval Tales._ 19. _Voltaire’s Candide_, and _Johnson’s Rasselas_. 20. _Jonson’s Plays and Poems._ 21. _Hobbes’s Leviathan._ 22. _Samuel Butler’s Hudibras._ 23. _Ideal Commonwealths._ 24. _Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey._ 25 & 26. _Don Quixote._ 27. _Burlesque Plays and Poems._ 28. _Dante’s Divine Comedy._ LONGFELLOW’S Translation. 29. _Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems._ 30. _Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit._ (_Hitopadesa._) 31. _Lamb’s Essays of Elia._ 32. _The History of Thomas Εllwood._ 33. _Emerson’s Essays, &c._ 34. _Southey’s Life of Nelson._ 35. _De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater, &c._ 36. _Stories of Ireland._ By Miss EDGEWORTH. 37. _Frere’s Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds._ 38. _Burke’s Speeches and Letters._ 39. _Thomas à Kempis._ 40. _Popular Songs of Ireland._ 41. _Potter’s Æschylus._ 42. _Goethe’s Faust: Part II._ ANSTER’S Translation. 43. _Famous Pamphlets._ 44. _Francklin’s Sophocles._ 45. _M. G. Lewis’s Tales of Terror and Wonder._ 46. _Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation._ 47. _Drayton’s Barons’ Wars, Nymphidia, &c._ 48. _Cobbett’s Advice to Young Men._ 49. _The Banquet of Dante._ 50. _Walker’s Original._ 51. _Schiller’s Poems and Ballads._ 52. _Peele’s Plays and Poems._ 53. _Harrington’s Oceana._