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1 Malory’s Romance of King Arthur and the Quest of the Holy Grail. Edited by Ernest Rhys.
2 Thoreau’s Walden. With Introductory Note by Will H. Dircks.
3 Thoreau’s “Week.” With Prefatory Note by Will H. Dircks.
4 Thoreau’s Essays. Edited, with an Introduction, by Will H. Dircks.
5 Confessions of an English Opium-eater, Etc. By Thomas De Quincey. With Introductory Note by William Sharp.
6 Landor’s Imaginary Conversations. Selected, with Introduction, by Havelock Ellis.
7 Plutarch’s Lives (Langhorne). With Introductory Note by B. J. Snell, M.A.
8 Browne’s Religio Medici, Etc. With Introduction by J. Addington Symonds.
9 Shelley’s Essays and Letters. Edited, with Introductory Note, by Ernest Rhys.
10 Swift’s Prose Writings. Chosen and Arranged, with Introduction, by Walter Lewin.
11 My Study Windows. By James Russell Lowell. With Introduction by R. Garnett. LL. D.