SIR WALTER BESANT, M. A., F. S. A.,

Soho Square, London W., England.

PROFESSOR KUNO FRANCKE, PH. D.,
Department of German,

HIRAM CORSON, A. M., LL. D.,

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.

Department of English Literature, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.

Librarian ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY; President (1890) AMERICAN
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M., LL. D.,

Professor of English and Literature,

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.

ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D.,

Professor of Romance Languages, TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La. SHELDON JACKSON, D. D., LL. D.,

Department of English, vice AUSTIN H. MERRILL, deceased, Department
of Elocution,
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, Tenn.

W. STUART SYMINGTON, JR., PH. D.,

Professor of Romance Languages, AMHERST COLLEGE, Amherst, Mass.

The Saxons as the Source of English Literature

I. Environment and Character

II. Traits of the Saxon

III. The Origin of the Modern World

The Character and Work of Thackeray

I. The Novel of Manners

II. Thackeray's Great Satires

III. Moralizing in Fiction.

On a Joke I Once Heard from the Late Thomas

THEOPHRASTUS- Continued

Of Senselessness or Desperate Boldness

Of Loquacity or Overspeaking

Of News Forging or Rumour Spreading

Of Impudency

Of Base Avarice or Parsimony

Of Obscenity or Ribaldry

Of Unreasonableness or Ignorance of Due Conveni

ent Times

Of Impertinent Diligence, or Over-Officiousness

Of Blockishness, Dulness, or Stupidity

Of Stubbornness, Obstinacy, or Fierceness

Of Superstition

Of Causeless Complaining

Of Diffidence or Distrust

Of Foulness

Of Unpleasantness or Tediousness

Of a Base and Frivolous Affectation of Praise

Of Illiberality or Servility

Of Ostentation

Of Pride

Of Timidity or Fearefulness

Of an Obligarchy, or The Manners of the Principal

Sort, which Sway in a State

Of Late Learning