Dramatic works.

v.1. Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great; or, The patriot king. The hunchback. The wife; a tale of Mantua. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter.--v.2. The love-chase. Woman's wit; or, Love's disguises. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida; or, The bridals of Messina. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary.

The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

The plays are printed in the order found in the second folio "Fifty comedies and tragedies," 1679, with facsimile reproductions of early title-pages.

Compromises /

The luxury of conversation.--The gayety of life.--The point of view.--Marriage in fiction.--Our belief in books.--The beggar's pouch.--The pilgrim's staff.--A Quaker diary.--French love-songs.--The spinster.--The tourist.--The headsman.--Consecrated to crime.--Allegra.

The quest of the face,

The face of Christ.--The immortal.--The changeless God.--The light.--A Russian beggar.--The student.--The shadow.--Alice.--Mathilde.--Serapion the Sindonite.--Simon on the pillar.

John Gay's Singspiele; mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen;

Without music.

Neglected English classics,

Horace Walpole's correspondence.-Favourite plays with eighteenth century playgoers.-Introductory remarks: Otway's Venice preserved. Farquhar's Beaux' stratagem. Addison's Cato. Gay's Beggar's opera.-Richardson's longest novels: Clarissa. Sir Charles Grandison.

Noble dames and notable men of the Georgian era,

Preface.--I. A grande dame, Lady Mary Coke, 1726-18ll.--II. A journ alistic parson, Sir Henry Bate-Dudley, bart., 1745-1824.--III. A hunted heiress, the Countess of Strathmore, 1749-1800.--IV. A professional beggar, Bampfylde-Moore Carew, 1693-(?)1758.--V. A unique hostess, Elizabeth, lady Holland, 1770-1845.--VI. A metaphysical humorist, Abraham Tucker, 1704-1774.