“Mr. Myers gives us a picture of the man and an estimate of his work which is certainly not inferior to anything that has preceded it. Possibly the best chapter in the book—every chapter is excellent—is that on Natural Religion.”—_Academy._ =DRYDEN.= By GEORGE SAINTSBURY. Crown 8vo. 2_s._ 6_d._ “It is, beyond question, the best account of Dryden which has yet appeared.”—_Academy._ IN PREPARATION. =SWIFT.= By JOHN MORLEY. =ADAM SMITH.= By LEONARD H. COURTNEY, M.P. =BENTLEY.= By Professor R. C. JEBB. =LANDOR.= By Professor SIDNEY COLVIN. =DICKENS.= By Professor A. W. WARD. =DE QUINCEY.= By Professor MASSON. =BERKELEY.= By Professor HUXLEY. =CHARLES LAMB.= By Rev. ALFRED AINGER. =STERNE.= By H. D. TRAILL. _Others will follow._ MACMILLAN & CO., LONDON. FOOTNOTES: [1] See Note I., on the Gardener Bower-bird. [2] See Note II., on Ars Topiaria. [3] Horace Walpole says that Bridgeman invented the sunk fence, “and the common people called them ‘Ha! ha’s!’ to express their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check to their walks.” He adds that Kent “leaped the fence, and saw that all Nature was a garden.” [4] See Note III., on a Poet’s Flower-bed. [5] In _Gleanings from French Gardens_, and _Alpine Flowers for English Gardens_. [6] I have just seen the following hopeful advertisement: “_Rockery Ornaments._—To be sold, 500 barrels of Conch Shells, in lots of one or more barrels, at extremely low prices. Apply to——,” &c. &c. [7] See Note IV., on the Evening Primrose. [8] See Note V., on the Christmas Rose. [9] I have adopted Professor Amos’s translation. End of Project Gutenberg's The English Flower Garden, by Henry Arthur Bright