AN ENGLISH LIBRARY PERIOD II
After dealing with the formation of a library of authors up to John Dryden,
I must logically arrange next a scheme for the period covered roughly
by the eighteenth century. There is, however, no reason why the student
in quest of a library should follow the chronological order.
Indeed, I should advise him to attack the nineteenth century
before the eighteenth, for the reason that, unless his taste
happens to be peculi
satisfaction and profit from his acquisitions in the nineteenth century
than in the eighteenth. There is in eighteenth-century literature
a considerable proportion of what I may term "unattractive excellence,"
which one must have for the purposes of completeness,
but which may await actual perusal until more pressing and more human books
have been read. I have particularly in mind the philosophical authors
of the century.
PROSE WRITERS.
£ s. d.
JOHN LOCKE, *Philosophical Works:* Bohn's Edition (2 vols.) 0 7 0
SIR ISAAC NEWTON, *Principia* (sections 1, 2, and 3): Macmillan's 0 12 0
Gilbert Burnet, *History of His Own Time:* Everyman's Library 0 1
0
William Wycherley, *Best Plays:* Mermaid Series 0 2 6
WILLIAM CONGREVE, *Best Plays:* Mermaid Series 0 2 6
Jonathan Swift, *Tale of a Tub:* Scott Library 0 1 0
Jonathan Swift, *Gulliver's Travels:* Temple Classics 0 1 6
DANIEL DEFOE, *Robinson Crusoe:* World's Classics 0 1 0
DANIEL DEFOE, *Journal of the Plague Year:* Everyman's Library 0 1
0
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, *Essays:* Scott Library 0 1 0
William Law, *Serious Call:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Lady Mary W. Montagu, *Letters:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
George Berkeley, *Principles of Human Knowledge:*
New Universal Library 0 1 0
SAMUEL RICHARDSON, *Clarissa* (abridged): Routledge's Edition 0 2
0
John Wesley, *Journal:* Everyman's Library (4 vols.) 0 4 0
HENRY FIELDING, *Tom Jones:* Routledge's Edition 0 2 0
HENRY FIELDING, *Amelia:* Routledge's Edition 0 2 0
HENRY FIELDING, *Joseph Andrews:* Routledge's Edition 0 2 0
David Hume, *Essays:* World's Classics 0 1 0
LAURENCE STERNE, *Tristram Shandy:* World's Classics 0 1 0
LAURENCE STERNE, *Sentimental Journey:* New Universal Library 0 1
0
Horace Walpole, *Castle of Otranto:* King's Classics 0 1 6
Tobias Smollett, *Humphrey Clinker:* Routledge's Edition 0 2 0
Tobias Smollett, *Travels through France and Italy:* World's Classics 0 1
0
ADAM SMITH, *Wealth of Nations:* World's Classics (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Samuel Johnson, *Lives of the Poets:* World's Classics (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Samuel Johnson, *Rasselas:* New Universal Library 0 1 0
JAMES BOSWELL, *Life of Johnson:* Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2
0
Oliver Goldsmith, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
Henry Mackenzie, *The Man of Feeling:* Cassell's National Library 0 0 6
Sir Joshua Reynolds, *Discourses on Art:* Scott Library 0 1
0
Edmund Burke, *Reflections on the French Revolution:* Scott Library 0 1
0
Edmund Burke, *Thoughts on the Present Discontents:*
New Universal Library 0 1 0
EDWARD GIBBON, *Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:*
World's Classics (7 vols.) 0 7 0
Thomas Paine, *Rights of Man:* Watts and Co.'s Edition 0 1
0
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, *Plays:* World's Classics 0 1 0
Fanny Burney, *Evelina:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Gilbert White, *Natural History of Selborne:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Arthur Young, *Travels in France:* York Library 0 2 0
Mungo Park, *Travels:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
Jeremy Bentham, *Introduction to the Principles of Morals:*
Clarendon Press 0 6 6
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, *Essay on the Principle of Population:*
Ward, Lock's Edition 0 3 6
William Godwin, *Caleb Williams:* Newnes's Edition 0 1 0
Maria Edgeworth, *Helen:* Macmillan's Illustrated Edition 0 2 6
JANE AUSTEN, *Novels:* Nelson's New Century Library (2 vols.) 0 4
0
James Morier, *Hadji Baba:* Macmillan's Illustrated Novels 0 2 6
£5 1 0
The principal omissions here are Jeremy Collier, whose outcry against
the immorality of the stage is his slender title to remembrance;
Richard Bentley, whose scholarship principally died with him,
and whose chief works are no longer current; and "Junius,"
who would have been deservedly forgotten long ago had there been
a contemporaneous Sherlock Holmes to ferret out his identity.
POETS.
£ s. d.
Thomas Otway, *Venice Preserved:* Temple Dramatists 0 1 0
Matthew Prior, *Poems on Several Occasions:*
Cambridge English Classics 0 4 6
John Gay, *Poems:* Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
ALEXANDER POPE, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
Isaac Watts, *Hymns:* Any hymn-book 0 1 0
James Thomson, *The Seasons:* Muses' Library 0 1 0
Charles Wesley, *Hymns:* Any hymn-book 0 1 0
THOMAS GRAY, Samuel Johnson, William Collins, *Poems:*
Muses' Library 0 1 0
James Macpherson (Ossian), *Poems:* Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
THOMAS CHATTERTON, *Poems:* Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
WILLIAM COWPER, *Poems:* Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
WILLIAM COWPER, *Letters:* World's Classics 0 1 0
George Crabbe, *Poems:* Methuen's Little Library 0 1 6
WILLIAM BLAKE, *Poems:* Muses' Library 0 1 0
William Lisle Bowles, Hartley Coleridge, *Poems:*
Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
ROBERT BURNS, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
£1 7 0
SUMMARY OF THE PERIOD.
£ s. d.
39 prose-writers in 60 volumes, costing 5 1 0
18 poets " 18 " " 1 7 0
57 78 £6 8 0
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