GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY EDMUND GOSSE 1913 OTHER WORKS BY MR. EDMUND GOSSE _Northern Studies_. 1879. _Life of Gray_. 1882. _Seventeenth-Century Studies_. 1883. _Life of Congreve_. 1888. _A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature_. 1889 _Life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S_. 1890. _The Secret of Narcisse: a Romance_. 1892. _Questions at Issue_. 1893. _Critical Kit-Kats_. 1896. _A Short History of Modern English Literature_. 1897. _Life and Letters of John Donne_. 1899. _Hypolympia_. 1901. _French Profiles_. 1904. _Life of Jeremy Taylor_. 1904. _Life of Sir Thomas Browne_. 1905. _Father and Son_. 1907. _Life of Ibsen_. 1908. _Two Visits to Denmark_. 1911. _Collected Poems_. 1911. _Portraits and Sketches_. 1912. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY CAMDEN'S "BRITANNIA" A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES A POET IN PRISON DEATH'S DUEL GERARD'S HERBAL PHARAMOND A VOLUME OF OLD PLAYS A CENSOR OF POETS THE ROMANCE OF A DICTIONARY LADY WINCHILSEA'S POEMS AMASIA LOVE AND BUSINESS WHAT ANN LANG READ CATS SMART'S POEMS POMPEY THE LITTLE THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNGLE BEAU NASH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE THE DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE PETER BELL AND HIS TORMENTORS THE FANCY ULTRA-CREPIDARIUS THE DUKE OF RUTLAND'S POEMS IONICA THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT INDEX _O blessed Letters, that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all: By you we doe conferre with who are gone, And the dead-living unto councell call: By you th' unborne shall have communion Of what we feele, and what doth us befall_. _SAM. DANIEL Musophilus. 1602_. INTRODUCTORY