Excerpt from A Short List of Books on English Literature From the Beginning to 1832: For the Use of Teachers Four volumes. 2s. Net each. A very stimulating and valuable study of English literature from a French point of View. Taine's statements of fact need verification. Garnett gosse. English Literature. An Illustrated Record. Heinemann. Four volumes. 3 net. Contains many interesting portraits and facsimiles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."