2.10 AQ ΤΟ ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY, OF NEW YORK, AS A TOKEN OF PROFOUND RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER AS A I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME. S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE. NEW YORK, October 11, 1879. PREFACE. THIS volume is the fourth of my works constituting a Course of English Literature, viz. : I. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century, containing over Forty-six Thousand [46,499] Articles (Authors); with Forty Indexes of Subjects. Royal 8vo, 3 vols., pp. 3139. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858-70-71. II. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson, with Copious Indexes. Authors, 550; Subjects, 435; Quotations, 13,600. 8vo, pp. xiv. 788. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. III. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, with Indexes, Authors, 544; Subjects, 571; Quotations, 8810. 8vo. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876. IV. Great Authors of all Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present Day. With Indexes. 8vo. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. It is difficult for an author to say anything of his works which does not savour of ostentation, or, at least, of egotism; and therefore I prefer to say nothing. NEW YORK, October 23, 1879. S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE. STATE HISTORICAL SOC. OF WISCONSIN. vii |