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reader. It includes the titles of only the most notable complete editions, of the most satisfactory inexpensive editions of the essays or of selections from them, and of a small number of studies which contain pertinent and valuable information on the development of the type or on the individual essayists, or which will be of definite assistance to the reader who desires fuller information than he can obtain from the necessarily compacted introduction and notes of this volume.

Throughout this work both editors have collaborated closely, and both are equally responsible for selection and arrangement; but each acknowledges a more definite accountability for certain sections. The preparation of the text for the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, with the accompanying notes and the corresponding section of the introduction, is the work of Dr. Crane; for the material of the nineteenth century Dr. Bryan is similarly responsible.

The editors desire to acknowledge gratefully their obligations to Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to reprint Stevenson's "The Lantern Bearers," and to the Newberry Library and the libraries of Harvard University and of Northwestern University for services that have made the work possible. To their former colleague, Mr. Herbert K. Stone, now of the University of Illinois, and to their present colleagues and friends, Professor Keith Preston, Messrs. George B. Denton, J. B. McKinney, and Arthur H. Nethercot, they desire also to express their appreciation of assistance generously given. Almost every page of the introduction owes something to Mr. Denton's keen and thoughtful criticism.

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS

W. F. B.
R. S. C.

CONTENTS1

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH FAMILIAR ESSAY

I. Montaigne and the Beginnings of the Essay in England
II. The Periodical Essay of the Eighteenth Century

III. The New Magazine Essay of the Nineteenth Century

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The Author to the Reader

Of Sorrow

Of Repentance

SIR FRANCIS BACON

Of Studies

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Of Empire

Of Truth

Of Death

Of Adversity

Of Envy

Of Travel

Of Friendship

Of Plantations

Of Gardens

ABRAHAM COWLEY

The Dangers of an Honest Man in Much Company
Of Myself

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHARACTERS

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1 Titles of essays in brackets have been supplied by the editors.

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