CONTENTS: Alexandra Dumas--Mr. Stevenson's Works--Thomas Haynes Bayly--Theodore de Banville--Homer and the Study of Greek--The Last Fashionable Novel--Thackeray--Dickens--Adventures of Buccaneers--The Sagas--Kingsley--Lever--Poems of Sir Walter Scott--Bunyan--Letter to a Young Journalist--Kipling's Stories. "One of the most entertaining and bracing of books. It ought to win every vote and please every class of readers."--_Spectator_ (London). LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS. (16mo, $1.00.) Letters to Thackeray--Dickens--Herodotus--Pope--Rabelais--Jane Austen--Isaak Walton--Dumas--Theocritus--Poe--Scott--Shelley--Molière--Burns, etc., etc. "The book is one of the luxuries of the literary taste. It is meant for the exquisite palate, and is prepared by one of the 'knowing' kind. It is an astonishing little volume."--_N. Y. Evening Post._ SIDNEY LANIER. THE ENGLISH NOVEL AND THE PRINCIPLE OF ITS DEVELOPMENT. (Crown 8vo, $2.00.) "The critical and analytical portions of his work are always in high key, suggestive, brilliant, rather dogmatic and not free from caprice ... But when all these abatements are made, the lectures remain lofty in tone and full of original inspiration."--_Independent._ [Transcriber's Notes: Typographical errors have been corrected as follows: Page 14 - "series of familiar letter" replaced with "series of familiar letters" Page 24 - Question mark added to "Do you remember Thackeray's account..." Page 95 - "pains of hell gat hold" replaced with "pains of hell got hold" Page 108 - "jusqu aux" replaced with "jusqu'aux" Page 127 - "perference" replaced with "preference" Page 127 - "inbecile" replaced with "imbecile" Page 196 - Correct single-double quotes before "We live no more" and "More strictly, then" Page 224 - "vemon" replaced with "venom" Page 253 - "ligitations" replaced with "litigations" Page 282 - "his people, which has" replaced with "his people, which have" Page 287 - "marches" replaced with "marshes"] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Res Judicatæ, by Augustine Birrell