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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV

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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV

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II        Bob Sawyer's Party.
             (From Chapter XXXI of "The Posthumous Papers of
               the Pickwick Club")

   III       Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness.
             (From Chapters LVII and LVIII of "The Old Curiosity Shop")

   IV        A Happy Return of the Day.
             (From Book III, Chapter IV, of "Our Mutual Friend")

CHARLOTTE BRONTE--(Born in 1816, died in 1855.)

   I         Of the Author of "Vanity Fair."
             (Preface to the second edition of "Jane Eyre")

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE--(Born in 1818, died in 1894.)

   I         Of History as a Science.
             (From "Short Studies on Great Subjects")

   II        The Character of Henry VIII.
             (From the "History of England")

   III       Caesar's Mission.
             (From the concluding chapter of "Caesar--A Sketch")

JOHN RUSKIN--(Born in 1819, died in 1900.)

   I         Of the History and Sovereignty of Venice.
             (From Chapter I of "The Stones of Venice")

   II        St. Mark's at Venice.
             (From Vol. II of "The Stones of Venice")

   III       Of Water.
             (From Vol. II, Section V, of "Modern Painters")

GEORGE ELIOT--(Born in 1819, died in 1880.)

             At the Hall Farm.
             (From "Adam Bede")

HERBERT SPENCER--(Born in 1820, died in 1904.)

   I         The Origin of Professional Occupations.
             (From Volume III of "The Principles of Sociology")

   II        Self-Dependence and Paternalism.
             (From the "Essays, Moral, Political and Esthetic")

   III       The Ornamental and the Useful in Education.
             (From "Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical")

   IV        Reminiscences of His Boyhood.
             (From Part I, Chapter II, of the "Autobiography")

   V         A Tribute to E. L. Youmans.
             (From Part VII of the "Autobiography")

   VI        Why He Never Married.
             (From Part XII of the "Autobiography")

HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE--(Born in 1821, died in 1862.)

   I         The Isolation of Spain.
             (From Vol. II, Chapter VIII, of the "History of Civilization
                in England")

   II        George III and the Elder Pitt.
             (From Vol. I, Chapter VII, of the "History of Civilization
                in England")

MATTHEW ARNOLD--(Born in 1822, died in 1888.)

             The Motive for Culture.
             (From "Culture and Anarchy")

EDWARD A. FREEMAN--(Born in 1823, died in 1892.)

             The Death of William the Conqueror.
             (From "The History of the Norman Conquest")

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY--(Born in 1825, died in 1895.)

             On a Piece of Chalk.
             (From "Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews")

FREDERIC HARRISON--(Born in 1831.)

             The Great Books of the World.
             (From an address on "The Choice of Books")

JOHN RICHARD GREEN--(Born in 1837, died in 1883.)

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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV

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