Books on English Language and Literature

published by the

Cambridge University Press

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

English Grammar: Descriptive and Historical. By T. G. Tucker, Litt.D., and R. S. Wallace, M.A. Crown 8vo. 3s. net.

A Junior Graphic Grammar. By E. A. A. Varnish and J. H. Hanly. Crown 8vo. With a table. 2s. net.

The Elements of English Grammar. With a Chapter on Essay-writing. By A. S. West, M.A. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. net.

A Chapter on Essay-writing, separately. 6d. net.

An English Grammar for Beginners. By A. S. West, M.A. Extra fcap. 8vo. 150th to 175th Thousand. 1s. 3d. net.

The Revised English Grammar. A new edition of The Elements of English Grammar, based upon the recommendations of the Committee on Grammatical Terminology. By A. S. West, M.A. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. net.

The Revised English Grammar for Beginners. A new edition of English Grammar for Beginners. By A. S. West, M.A. Extra fcap. 8vo. 1s. 3d. net.

Key to the Questions contained in West’s Revised English Grammar and Revised English Grammar for Beginners. By A. S. West, M.A. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4s. net. Suitable for use with both the original and revised editions.

A Handbook of English for Junior and Intermediate Classes. By D. B. Nicolson, M.A. Crown 8vo. 1s. 9d. net.

English Composition: with Chapters on Précis Writing, Prosody, and Style. By W. Murison, M.A. Crown 8vo. 5s. net. Or in two parts, 3s. net each.

Key to the Exercises in English Composition. By W. Murison, M.A. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Précis-Writing. By W. Murison. Crown 8vo. In three parts. Part I, 3s. net. Part II, 3s. 6d. net. Part III, 4s. net.

A Handbook of Précis-Writing. With graduated exercises. By E. D. Evans, M.A. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

An Elementary Old English Grammar (Early West-Saxon). By A. J. Wyatt, M.A. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

An Elementary Old English Reader (Early West-Saxon). By the same author. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the use of Students. By John R. Clark Hall. Second Edition. Revised and enlarged. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

The Pronunciation of English. Phonetics and Phonetic Transcriptions. By Daniel Jones, M.A. Crown 8vo. 3s. net. (Cambridge Primers of Pronunciation.) Wall-charts for class use:

1. The Organs of Speech. On card 2s. 6d. net, on paper 2s. net. Mounted on canvas, varnished, with rollers, 3s. 6d. net; mounted on canvas, folded, 4s. 6d. net.

2. English Speech Sounds. On card 2s. 6d. net, on paper 2s. net. Mounted on canvas, varnished, with rollers, 3s. 6d. net; mounted on canvas, folded, 4s. 6d. net.

The Pronunciation of English in Scotland. By William Grant, M.A. Crown 8vo. 4s. net. (Cambridge Primers of Pronunciation.)

Outlines of the History of the English Language. By Professor T. N. Toller, M.A. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

Chapters on English Metre. By Joseph B. Mayor, M.A. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

A Handbook of Modern English Metre. By the same author. Extra fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Beowulf, with the Finnsburg Fragment. Edited by A. J. Wyatt. New edition, revised, with introduction and notes, by R. W. Chambers. Demy 8vo. With 2 facsimiles of MSS. 9s. net.

Beowulf. A metrical translation into Modern English. By John R. Clark Hall. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

Spindrift. Salt from the Ocean of English Prose. Edited by Geoffrey Callender, M.A. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Stories from Chaucer. Retold from the Canterbury Tales. With Introduction and Notes by Margaret C. Macaulay. Crown 8vo. With frontispiece and 28 illustrations from old MSS. 1s. 9d. net. Without Introduction and Notes. 1s. 3d. net.

The Elder Brother. A Comedy by John Fletcher. First printed in 1637, now reprinted with slight alterations and abridgement for use on occasions of entertainment, especially in Schools and Colleges. Edited by W. H. Draper, M.A. Crown 8vo. With 2 illustrations. 3s. net.

Lyrical Forms in English. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Norman Hepple, M. Litt. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

Principles and Method in the Study of English Literature. By W. Macpherson, M.A. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

Milton. Paradise Lost. Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A. Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

Milton. The Poetical Works, edited with Critical Notes by William Aldis Wright, M.A., Litt.D. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 6s. net. India paper, limp lamb-skin, 8s. 6d. net.

On the Art of Writing. Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913–1914. By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, M.A. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

Tennyson. In Memoriam. Edited with a Commentary by Arthur W. Robinson, B.D. Crown 8vo. 3s. net.

The Literature of the Victorian Era. By Professor Hugh Walker, LL.D. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

Outlines of Victorian Literature. By Hugh Walker, LL.D., and Mrs Hugh Walker. Demy 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

A Book of Victorian Poetry and Prose. Compiled by Mrs Hugh Walker. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Jonathan Swift. The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 26 May, 1917. By Charles Whibley, M.A. Crown 8vo. 1s. 6d. net.

A Primer of English Literature. By W. T. Young, M.A. Small crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt lettering. 2s. 3d. net. School edition. Limp cloth. 1s. 3d. net.

CAMBRIDGE ANTHOLOGIES

Life in Shakespeare’s England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose compiled by J. D. Wilson, M.A. Illustrated. 4s. net.

An Anthology of the Poetry of the Age of Shakespeare. Chosen by W. T. Young, M.A. Crown 8vo. 3s. net.

ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS

Selections from the Poems of John Keats. Edited by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A., F.S.A. Crown 8vo. 2s. net.

Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by A. H. Thompson. Crown 8vo. 2s. net.

Selections from the Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by A. H. Thompson. Crown 8vo. 2s. net.

PITT PRESS SERIES, ETC.

Bacon’s Essays. Edited by A. S. West, M.A. 3s. net.

Bacon’s History of the Reign of King Henry VII. Edited by the Rev. J. R. Lumby, D.D. 3s. 6d. net.

Bacon. New Atlantis. Edited by G. C. Moore Smith, M.A. 2s. net.

Ballads and Poems Illustrating English History. Edited by Frank Sidgwick. 2s. net.

Without introduction and notes. 1s. 6d. net.

Old Ballads. Edited by Frank Sidgwick. 2s. net.

Robert Browning. A Selection of Poems (1835–1864). Edited by W. T. Young, M.A. 3s. net.

Burke. Reflections on the French Revolution. Edited by W. Alison Phillips, M.A., and Catherine Beatrice Phillips. 4s. 6d. net.

Burke. Speeches on American Taxation and Conciliation with America. Edited by A. D. Innes, M.A. 3s. 6d. net. Speech on Conciliation with America, separately. 2s. net.

Burke. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Edited by W. Murison, M.A. 3s. net.

Byron. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Edited by A. H. Thompson, M.A. 3s. net.

Chaucer. The Prologue and The Knight’s Tale. Edited by M. Bentinck Smith, M.A. 3s. net.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale and The Squieres Tale. Edited by L. Winstanley, M.A. 3s. net.

Chaucer. The Nonnë Prestes Tale. Edited by L. Winstanley, M.A. 2s. 3d. net.

Cowley’s Prose Works. Edited by J. R. Lumby. 4s. 6d. net.

De Foe. Robinson Crusoe. Part I. Edited by J. Howard B. Masterman, M.A. 2s. 6d. net.

Earle. Microcosmography. Edited by A. S. West, M.A. 3s. 6d. net.

Goldsmith. The Traveller and the Deserted Village. Edited by W. Murison, M.A. 1s. 9d. net.

Gray. English Poems. Edited by D. C. Tovey, M.A. 4s. 6d. net.

_Extracts from the above_

Ode on the Spring and the Bard. 1s. net.

Ode on the Spring and Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 1s. net.

Gray’s English Poems. Edited by R. F. Charles, M.A. 2s. 3d. net.

Kingsley. The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children. Edited with Notes, Illustrations from Greek Vases, and Two Maps, by Ernest Gardner, M.A. 1s. 9d. net. Without introduction and notes. 1s. 3d. net.

Lamb’s Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia. Edited by A. H. Thompson, M.A. 3s. net each.

Lamb, Charles and Mary. A Selection of Tales from Shakespeare. With Introduction and Notes, and an Appendix of Extracts from Shakespeare, by J. H. Flather, M.A. 1s. 9d. net.

A second selection. By the same editor, 1s. 9d. net.

Macaulay. The Lays of Ancient Rome, and other Poems. Edited by J. H. Flather, M.A. 1s. 6d. net.

Macaulay. John Milton. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by J. H. Flather, M.A. 1s. 6d. net.

Macaulay. History of England, Chapters I-III. Edited by W. F. Reddaway, M.A. 2s. 6d. net.

Macaulay. Lord Clive. Edited by A. D. Innes, M.A. 2s. net.

By the same editor

Warren Hastings. 2s. net.

Two Essays on William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 3s. net.

Essay on The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1s. 6d. net.

Nineteenth Century Essays. Edited with Introduction and Notes by George Sampson. 2s. 3d. net.

THE CAMBRIDGE MILTON FOR SCHOOLS

With Introduction, Notes and Glossaries, by A. W. Verity, M.A.

Arcades. 2s. net. Samson Agonistes. 3s. net.

Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas. 3s. net. Sonnets. 2s. net.

Comus and Lycidas. 2s. 6d. net. Comus, separately, 1s. 6d. net.

Paradise Lost. In 6 volumes, each containing 2 books, 2s. 3d. net per volume. (For _Paradise Lost_ in one volume see p. 2)


More’s Utopia. Edited by J. R. Lumby, D.D. 2s. 3d. net.

More’s History of King Richard III. Edited by J. R. Lumby, D.D. 4s. net.

Pope’s Essay on Criticism. Edited by A. S. West, M.A. 2s. 6d. net.

Pope’s Essay on Man. Edited by A. H. Thompson, M.A. 2s. 6d. net.

SCHOOL EDITIONS OF SCOTT’S WORKS

Each volume contains Introduction, Notes and Glossary

Marmion. Edited by J. H. B. Masterman, M.A. 3s. net.

The Lady of the Lake. Same editor. 3s. net.

The Lord of the Isles. Edited by J. H. Flather, M.A. 2s. 3d. net.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Same editor. 2s. 3d. net.

A Legend of Montrose. Edited by H. F. M. Simpson, M.A. 2s. 3d. net.

Old Mortality. Edited by J. A. Nicklin. 2s. 3d. net.

Kenilworth. Edited by J. H. Flather, M.A. 2s. 3d. net.

Quentin Durward. Edited by W. Murison, M.A. 2s. 3d. net.

The Talisman. Edited by A. S. Gaye, B.A. 2s. 3d. net.

Woodstock. Same editor. 2s. 3d. net.

The Pitt Press Shakespeare. By A. W. Verity, M.A. With Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Price 1s. 9d. net each.

The Granta Shakespeare. By J. H. Lobban, M.A. With short Notes and brief Glossary. Price 1s. 3d. net each.

The Student’s Shakespeare. Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A. With Introductions, Notes, Glossaries, etc. 3s. net each.


Sidney. An Apologie for Poetrie. Edited by E. S. Shuckburgh, Litt.D. 3s. 6d. net.

Spenser. The Fowre Hymnes. Edited by Lilian Winstanley, M.A. 2s. 6d. net.

Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Books I and II. Edited by L. Winstanley. 3s. net each.

Tennyson. Fifty Poems, 1830–1864. Edited by J. H. Lobban, M.A. 3s. net.

Poems by William Wordsworth. Selected and annotated by Miss Clara L. Thomson. 1s. 9d. net.


The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children. Edited by Kenneth Grahame. Crown 8vo. In two parts. 1s. net each. In one volume, cloth extra. 3s. net.

A Book of Verse for Children. Compiled by Alys Rodgers, L.L.A. (Hons.). Crown 8vo. Complete, cloth gilt, 3s. net; cloth back, 2s. _6d._ net. Parts I-III separately, limp cloth, 1s. net.

English Patriotic Poetry. Selected by L. Godwin Salt, M.A. 1s. 9d. net. Text only, without introduction and notes, 9d. net.

A Book of English Poetry for the Young. Arranged for Preparatory and Elementary Schools by W. H. Woodward. 1s. net.

A Second Book of English Poetry for the Young. Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by W. H. Woodward. 1s. net.