AN EPITOME OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Under the above title it is intended to publish, in a new and concentrated
form, a series of Standard English Authors. The precise nature of
the plan to be adopted in the work will be stated hereafter—for the present
suffice it to observe, that in History no facts, and in Philosophy no reasoning
will be omitted or distorted, so as to render a reference to the original
author requisite; and thus persons of both sexes may become perfectly
acquainted with authors repulsive from bulk alone, at a comparatively
little cost of time as well as price. The series will be confined to the
popular productions of writers in prose,—such as Burnet, Clarendon,
Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Bacon, Locke, Paley, Addison, Goldsmith,
Johnson, Swift, &c. &c., and will be edited by A. J. Valpy, M. A.
HARPER'S FAMILY LIBRARY.—See Prospectus.
LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS.—See Prospectus.
