The Oxford book of English prose

Joseph Addison: Mr. Shapely (Spectator, No. 475). Will Wimble (Spectator, No. 108). Sir Roger at church (Spectator, No. 112). Sir Roger goes to Spring Garden (Spectator, No. 383). The royal exchange (Spectator, No. 69). Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26). The vision of Mirza (Spectator, No. 159). My garden (Spectator, No. 477)

William Adlington: Cupid and Psyche (The golden ass, Book V)

Anonymous: The magpie and the eel, c. 1400 (The knight de la tour landry)

John Arbuthnot: The christening of Martin Scriblerus (Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus)

Matthew Arnold: Ideas in England (Essays in criticism, Heinrich Heine). Oxford (Essays in criticism, Heinrich Heine, preface). Milton (Essays in criticism, Heinrich Heine, second series)

Roger Ascham: Seeing the wind (Toxophilus). From the preface to The schoolmaster. Lady Jane Grey (Schoolmaster). Of translation (Schoolmaster)

Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester: To his sick daughter, about to rejoin him in his exile

Jane Austen: The John Dashwoods (Sense and sensibility). Mansfield Park (Vol. 1, chapter 1). Miss Bates at the ball (Emma)

Francis Bacon: The service of the muses (Essex' device). Of first and second causes (the advancement of learning, Book I). Of death I (Essays, II). Of death II (An essay on death)

Of delays (Essays, XXI). Of studies (Essays, L). Of gardens (Essays LXVI)

Walter Bagehot: The old private banker (Lombard Street)

Sir James Matthew Barrie: The chairs (Margaret Ogilvy)

Henry Walter Bates: A naturalist's day in the tropics (Records of a naturalist on the Amazons)

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: A fisher of men (Lothair). Max Beerbohm: The Morris dancers (Yet again). The golden drugget (And even now)

Hilaire Belloc: The Normans (Hills and the sea, Ely)

Arnold Bennett: Swinburne (Books and persons)

Arthur Christopher Benson: Henry Bradshaw (Essays)

George Berkeley: Matter for a May morning (Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous). Anodynes for the spleen (Alciphron). The fox-hunters (Alciphron)

John Bourchier, Lord Berners: The death of the Bruce (Froissart's chronicles). The battle of the Crecy (Froissart's chronicles). The burghers of Calais (Froissart's chronicles). John Ball's preaching (Froissart's chronicles)

Thomas Betson: To his kinswoman Katherine Ryche (Stoner letters and papers)

The Bible: Coverdale's version (1535), The boke of wysdome. The great Bible (1539), Psalms xiv, cxxvi, xxiii, xc. Tyndale's translation of the New Testament (1535), A vision of judgement (St. Matthew, xxvi, 31-46). The authorized version (1611), Jacob at the ford (Genesis xxxii, 22-9). The death of Absalom (2 Samuel xviii, 24-33). Remember now thy creator (Ecclesiastes xii, 1-7). The Song of Solomon. Dirge for the King of Babylon (Isaiah xiv, 9-12). The wilderness (Isaiah xxxcv, 1-10). Surge, illuminare! (Isaiah lx, 1-3, 12-20). The vision of dry bones (Ezekiel xxxvcii, 1-13). God's purpose is eternall (2 Esdras vi, 1-6). Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us (Ecclesiasticus xliv, 1-14). The walk to Emmaus (St. Luke xxiv, 13-25). Charity (I Corinthians xiii, 1-13). Behold, I show you a mystery (I Corinithians xv, 51-58)

Augustine Birrell: John Wesley's journal. Sir Thomas Bodley: His letter to the vice-chancellor

Henry Bolingbroke: The statesman and the charlatan (Idea of a patriot king). The sea our element (Idea of a patriot king)

George Borrow: The wind on the heath (Lavengro). The prize fight (Lavengro)

James Boswell: Johnson at Oxford (Life of Samuel Johnson). The doctor has a frolic (Life of Samuel Johnson). First meeting with Johnson (Life of Samuel Johnson)

Charles Synge Christopher Bowen: Mogul Steamship Compay v. McGregor Gow and Co: Judgement (Law Reports, 1889)

Francis Herbert Bradley: Reason and reality (The principles of logic, Book III)

Robert Bridges: The quest (Spirit of man). A school portrait (Memoir prefixed to poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben)

John Bright: The angel of death (Speech in the House of Commons, on the Crimean War, 23 Feb. 1855)

Charlotte Brontë: On Wuthering Heights (Introduction to Wuthering Heights). Rachel (Villette)

Emily Brontë: The dream (Wuthering Heights)

Rupert Brooke: 1914, Her foundations are upon the holy hills

Henry Brougham: Political second-sight (Historical sketches, Mr. Dundas)

John Brown: A dog fight (Rab and his friends). Presence of mind

Sir Thomas Browne: Of religious civility (Religio medici, part I, sect. 3). Of harmony (Religio medici, part II, sect. 9). Sleep (Religio medici, part II, sect. 12). Pulvis et umbra sumus (Urne burial). The mystic as gardener (End of Cyrus' garden, or the quincunx. The heroic mind (Christian morals, part I, sect. 36)

John Bunyan: He plays tip cat on Sunday (Grace abounding to the chief of sinners). Christian and Faithful come to Vanity Fair (Pilgrim's progress, Part I). The valley of humiliation (Pilgrim's progress, Part I). Mr. Valiant-for-Truth crosses the river (Pilgrim's progress, Part II)

Edmund Burke: The arena, 1770 (Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents). Conciliation with America, 1775 (Speech on moving the Resolution for Conciliation with the colonies). Speech at Bristol on declining the poll, 1780. Marie Antoinette (Reflections on the revolution in France). The laboring poor (Letters on a regicide peace, Letter III). Thomas Paine (Letters on a regicide peace, Letter IV). Windsor Castle and the Bedford level (A letter to a noble lord on the attacks made upon Mr. Burke)

Gilbert Burnet: The battle of Dunbar (A history of his own time). The conclusion of the whole matter (A history of his own time). John Burnet: Ignorance (the Romanes lecture 1923). Thomas Burnet: Dies irae, dies illa (A sacred theory of the Earth, Book III)

Fanny Burney: The Holborn beau (Evelina, Letter 46). Impeachment of Hastings (Diary, Feb. 1788)

Robert Burton: Black spirits and white (Anatomy of melancholy, Part I). Of change of air (Anatomy of melancholy, Part II)

Richard Bury: Epilogue (Philobiblon)

Samuel Butler: The turtle (Essays on life, art, and science). The statues (Erewhon)

William Camden: The lady of the sea (Remaines concerning Britain)

Charles Cannan: Ingram Bywater (the Journal of Philology, Vol. xxxiv, 1915)

John Capgrave: Times of tribulation (Chronicle of England, A. D. 1347)

Richard Carew: The praise of English (An epistle on the excellency of the English tongue)

Thomas Carlyle: Jocelin of Brakelond (Past and present, Book II). Teufelsdrockh's watch-tower (Sartor Resartus). Friedrich Wilhelm's tobacco-parliament (Frederick the Great, Book V)

George Cavendish: The death of Wolsey (The life and death of Thomas Wolsey)

William Caxton: Discretion (Game and playe of the chesse). His labours (Epilogue to Book III of the Recuyell of Troy). His homage to Chaucer) Preface to Boethius de Consolacione Philosophie). Of Le morte Arthur (Preface to Malory's Le morte Arthur)

Robert W. Chapman: Ingram Bywater (The portrait of a scholar)

William Pitt Chatham: On the employment of red Indians in the American war (Speech in the House of Lords, 20 Nov. 1777)

Geoffrey Chaucer: Little Lewis and the astrolabe. O stelliferi conditor orbis. Sins of the tongue (The persones tale)

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: The art of pleasing (Letters to his son). Dissimulation (Letters to his son). A collateral security (Letters to his son)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Mr. Pickwick (Charles Dickens). The battle of the Marne (the crimes of England)

Richard William Church: Spenser's ideal gentleman (English men of letters, Spenser)

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: A small cloud in the north (Life). His tribute to Cromwell (A history of the rebellion and civil wars in England). The battle of Stamford Hill (A history of the rebellion and civil wars in England). Character of Lord Falkland (A history of the rebellion and civil wars in England). Arthur Clutton-Brock: The cardinal virtue of prose (Modern essays)

William Cobbett: The sandpit (Rural rides, Kensington to Uphusband)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The knight of Malta, a Florentine portrait in the National Gallery (Non sequitur)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The vale of human life (Biographia literaria). Klopstock (Biographic literaria, Satyrane's letters). The verse and the gloss (Rime of the ancient mariner). Love of nature (Anima poetae)

Joseph Conrad: A close shave (Chance, Part II). The tartane (The rover). From Youth: The leak. Ship on fire. The landfall. The east

Thomas Coryate: A theological argument (Coryat's crudities, observations of Venice)

Charles Cotton: The fishing-house (The compleat angler, Part II)

Leonard Courtney of Penwith: Justice (Addresses 1908-1909)

Miles Coverdale: The boke of Wysdome (Translation of the Bible)

Abraham Cowley: Of solitude. Of himself. Fallentis semita vitae (Essays, of obscurity)

William Cowper: Recollections of Margate (Letter to the Reverend William Unwin). The Columbriad. A candidate for Parliament (Letter to the Reverend John Newton, 29 March 1784). Countryside music. The promised visit (Letter to Lady Hesketh, 9 Feb. 1786). In at the death (Letter to Lady Kesketh)

George Crabbe: A letter to Burke (A life of Crabbe)

Thomas Cranmer: Uses of holy scripture (Preface to the Great Bible, 1539). Daniel Defoe: Crusoe visits the wreck (Robinson Crusoe). The footprint. London in plague time (A journal of the plague year). A young thief (The life of Colonel Jack)

Thomas De Quincey: A London wait (Confessions of an opium-eater). News of Talavera (English mail-coach). Our ladies of sorrow (Suspira de profundis)

Charles Dickens: David's library (David Copperfield). The widow at the grave (The old curiosity shop). Mrs. Gamp on steam-engines (Martin Chuzzlewit). A pale young gentleman (Great expectations). The haymakers (Uncommercial traveler)

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson: Literature in Cathay (Letters from John Chinaman)

Austin Dobson: Mrs. Hogarth

John Donne: Death the leveler. All times are God's seasons. Hearts. The bell

Charles Doughty: The deaf and the dumb (Travels in Arabia Deserta). The desert day

William Drummond: Animula vagula blandula, hospes comesque corporis (The cypresse grove). Of dying young

John Dryden: June 3rd, 1665 (Essay of dramatic poesy). Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Chaucer (Preface to the fables). Dryden grown old

John Earle: A child (Microcosmographie). A she precise hypocrite (Microcosmographie)

George Eliot: Maggie and the doll (The mill on the floss). Mrs. Linnet's reading (Scenes of clerical life). The archery meeting (Daniel Deronda)

Thomas Elyot: Of cooks and tutors (The book named for governor)

Ralph Waldo Emerson: the universal in man. A defence of frankness

English liturgy: Collects from the First prayer book of Edward VI, 1549. Psalms in the version of the great Bible, 1539. The navy prayer. John Evelyn: On his plan of a garden book (Letter to Sir Thomas Browne). Galley-slaves (Diary). The great fire

Michael Fairless: the roadmender and the birds

Owen Felltham: Of preaching

James Frederick Ferrier: the true end of man

Henry Fielding: Mr. Allworthy and the foundling. London River (Journal of a voyage to Lisbon). Cat overboard

John Fisher: the death of the Lady Margaret

Edward Fitzgerald: The boat race. Spedding's forehead

John Florio: Montaigne, of his friend. Of cruelty

John Fortescue: The cheap defence of England

George Fox: The cloud

John Foxe: Rowland Taylor, Vicar of Hadleigh, Suffolk

James Anthony Froude: The end of the Middle Age. The taking of the Cacafuego. Oxford revisited

Thomas Fuller: The true gentleman. The good sea captain. The good master of a college. Wyclife's ashes

John Galsworthy: Death of Aunt Ann

Elizabeth Gaskell: Miss Matty goes visiting. Phillis in love

Edward Gibbon: The two Antonines (Decline and fall of the Roman Empire). Constantinople. Unworldliness of the early Christians. On his life-work (Memoirs of my life and writings)

George Gissing: Shakespeare's island (Private papers of Henry Ryecroft

Joseph Glanvill: The scholar gipsy (The vanity of dogmatizing)

George Robert Gleig: Waterloo

Oliver Goldsmith: A party at Vauxhall. The decoys (the Vicar of Wakefield). Dedication of the deserted village

Sir Edmund Gosse: Oddicombe Chapel (Father and Son)

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham: On the Santa Barbara (Cartagena and the banks of the Sinu)

Kenneth Graham: The Roman road (The golden age: the Roman road). Thomas Gray: Netley Abbey (Letter to the Rev. N. Nicholls, 19 Nov. 1764). To H. Walpole, with a copy of his elegy (Stoke, 12 June 1764)

John Richard Green: The universities and feudalism (A short history of the English people)

Greville Fulke: A honeymoon (Letter sent to an honourable lady)

Richard Hakluyt: The first landing in Virginia. The death of Thomas Doughty at Port St. Julian

Sir George Savile, Marquis of Halifax: Charles II (Political, moral, and miscellaneous thoughts and reflections. Look to your moat (A rough draft of a new model at sea)

Edward Hall: The end of the Krekers (Chronicles of Henry VIII

Henry Fielding Hall: A Burmese on the English (The Inward light)

William Edward Hall: A prophecy (Preface to the third edition of international law)

Thomas Hardy: Midnight on St. Thomas's Eve (Far from the madding crowd). The victory passes (The trumpet major). A tree-planting (The Woodlanders). Marty has her reward (The Woodlanders)

James Harrington: Oceana (Introduction)

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Phoebe's bedchamber (House of seven gables)

William Hazlitt: On going a journey (Table-talk). The spirit of humanity in Shakespeare (Comic writers). The pleasures of reading (the plain speaker). John Cavanagh (Table-talk)

Lafacadio Hearn: A Japanese garden (Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan)

William Ernest Henley: Other sea-poets and Longfellow (Views and reviews). Raeburn (Views and reviews)

Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The knot of ribband (Life)

Maurice Hewlett: Mascalls (Wiltshire essays)

Henry Hexham: The assault on Ostend, 7 January 1602 (Stuart tracts)

Thomas Hobbes: Disastrous effects of an afternoon performance (Leviathan, Part I). Out of civil states, there is always warre (Leviathan). The papacy (Leviathan)

Thomas Holcroft: Life in a racing-stable (Memoirs)

Raphael Holinshed: The weird sisters (History of Scotland). John Hollond: A discourse of the Navy (Mr. Holland, his first discourses)

Oliver Wendell Holmes: The lost sloop (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

Richard Hooker: Laws of nature (The laws of ecclesiasticall politie, Book I). Man's ascending search (The laws of ecclesiasticall politie, Book I). The permanence of government (The laws of ecclesiasticall politie, Book I)

James Howell: The pied piper (Epistolae Ho-elianae)

W. H. Hudson: The return of the chiff-chaff (A traveler in little things). Birds and death (Birds in town and village). Pilgrims at the land's end (The land's end)

Thomas Hughes: Coaching to school (Tom Brown's schooldays). The first bump (Tom Brown at Oxford). David Hume: Delicacy of taste and delicacy of passion (Essays: First essay). Foreign trade (Essays: essay of commerce)

Leigh Hunt: His prison (Autobiography). Furze on Wimbledon Common (Table-talk)

Lucy Hutchinson: A Puritan courtship (Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson)

Thomas Henry Huxley: A game of chess)

Washington Irving: The stage coach (The sketch book: the stage coach. Dulce domum (The sketch book. Christmas eve). Little Britain (The sketch book. Little Britain). Poets' corner (The sketch book. Westminster abbey). James Henry: An archangel slightly damaged (The coxon fund). Philosophy of a grand dame (Madame de Mauves). The pont du gard (A little tour in France)

William James: The will to believe

James Hopwood Jeans: The services of astronomy (The nebular hypothesis and modern cosmogony)

Richard Jefferies: The wheat (Last essays: field and hedgerow)

William Stanley Jevons: True science (Principles of science, Book VI)

Lionel Johnson: Mannerism in art (Reviews and critical papers). Samuel Johnson: The last Idler (Saturday, 5 April, 1760). The aviator (Rasselas), Pope and Dryden (Lives of the poets). William Collins (Lives of the poets). Congregational music (Journey to the western islands: Sky: Armidel). On his dictionary (Preface to the dictionary). Letter to Lord Chesterfield (7 Feb. 1755). John Paul Jones: Naval strategy (Letter to Vice-Admiral the Comte de Kersaint, 1791)

Ben Jonson: The dignity of speech (Timber). His poverty (Timber). Eloquence (Timber). Of our fellow countryman Shakespeare (Timber). Of Francis Bacon (Timber). Of public schools (Timber)

Benjamin Jowett: Belief in immortality (Introduction to the Phaedo). Socrates under sentence of death hears the voice of the laws of Athens. The death of Socrates. Last words on Plato (Introduction to the Laws of Plato)

Sir Philip Francis: To the Duke of Grafton (The letters of Junius)

John Keats: The harp Aeolian (Letters, 19 Feb. 1818). Axioms of poetry (Letter to John Taylor)

Alexander William Kinglake: Scarlett's three hundred (Balaclava) (Invasion of the Crimea). Damascus (Eothen). Homer and the child

Charles Kingsley: Amyas on the cliff (Westward Ho!). Salmon rivers (The water babies). Finding a fox (Yeast)

Henry Kinglsey: The children at a wedding (Ravenshoe)

Rudyard Kipling: With the main guard (Soldiers three). The spring running (Second jungle book). The great wall (Puck of Pook's Hill)

John Knox: Regiment of women (First blast of the trumpet)

Charles Lamb: The Old Margate hoy (Last essays of Elia). Amicus redivivus (Last essays). Old China (Last essays). Dream children (Elia). A Londoner in Grain (Letter to William Wordsworth, 30 Jan. 1801). Writing for antiquity (Letter to Bryan W. Procter, 22 Jan. 1829). Walter Savage Landor: Mentem mortalia tangent (Imaginary conversations: Aesop and Rhodope). Rhodope's father (Imaginary conversations). The dream of Boccaccio

Andrew Lang: Aucassin's choice (Aucassin and Nicolete). Saint Augustine robs an orchard (Adventures among books). Izaak Walton

Hugh Latimer: Decay of the yeomanry (First sermon preached before King Edward VI). Cause and effect (Last sermon preached before King Edward VI)

William Edward Hartpole Lecky: Party votes (The map of life)

Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow: Quia omnis caro ut foenum (Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter)

Charles Lever: With the Galway hunt (Charles O'Malley)

Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg (Dedicatory address)

John Locke: On the teaching of English)

John Gibson Lockhart: The death of Sir Walter (Life of Sir Walter Scott)

Thomas Lodge: Alinda's comfort to perplexed Rosalind

William Lomner: Suffolk dies by pirates (The Paston letters)

James Russell Lowell: Evening thoughts after war-time (Literary essays)

Edward Verrall Lucas: The windmill (Old lamps for new)

Edmund Ludlow: The lying-in-state of Oliver Cromwell (Memoirs, Sept. 20-Nov. 23, 1658)

John Lyly: Two sisters (Euphues' glass for Europe)

Robert Henry Lyttelton: Cobden's over: 1870 (Badminton library)

Thomas Babington Macaulay: Clive at Plassey (Historical essays: Lord Clive). Warren Hastings (Historical essays: Warren Hastings). Londonderry (History of England). And calm of mind, all passion spent (A conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton, touching the great civil war)

Compton Mackenzie: The basket of roses (The passionate elopement)

Edward Macnaghten: Gluckstein v. Barnes: Judgement

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine: Political parties (Popular government, essay II)

Frederic William Maitland: The voice of the majority (Township and borough) Sir Thomas Malory: The month of May (Le morte Arthur). The maid of Astolat (Le morte Arthur). The last meeting of Launcelot and Guenever (Le morte Arthur). Sir Ector's dirge over Launcelot (Le morte Arthur)

Sir Henry Montagu Manchester: The soul's excellency (Manchester al mondo)

Sir John Mandeville: Of paradise (The voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundeville). Of the centre of the earth (The voiage). The lady of the land (The voiage). Noes schipp (The voiage)

Henry Longueville Mansel: Against rational theology (Limits of religious thought examined)

Gervase Markham: Matched in the mouth like bells (Country contentments, Book I)

Frederick Marryat: Naval politeness (Mr. Midshipman Easy). Weathering the point (Peter Simple)

John Masefield: The clipper (A tarpaulin muster: a memory). Clewing up the royals (A tarpaulin muster: being ashore). William Melmuth: The source of the clitumnus (Translation of Pliny's letters, Book VIII, letter 8)

Herman Melville: Fayaway (Typee). Sighting the whale (Moby Dick)

James Melville: The Armada castaways in Fife (Diary, 1588)

George Meredith: Diversion on a penny whistle (The ordeal of Richard Feverel). Clara Middleton (The egoist). Dawn in the mountains (The amazing marriage)

Conyers Middleton: The political character of Cicero (Life of Cicero)

John Stuart Mill: Liberty of the individual (On liberty)

Hugh Miller: His first day as quarry-boy (Old red sandstone)

John Milton: Against fugitive and cloistered virtue (Areopagitica). The tyranny of licensing (Areopagitica). Milton in Italy (Areopagitica). The profit of free speech to a commonwealth (Areopagitica). Long choosing (Reason of church government)

Mary Russell Mitford: Hannah (Our village)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: To Mr. Pope, from Adrianpole (Letters from the Levant, letter 34, 1 April 1717)

Charles Edward Montague: The faculty of delight (Disenchantment). Belated victory (Disenchantment)

George Moore: Esther's son (Esther Waters). Hail and farewell

Henry More: How far is honest mirth lawful (A dialogue of comfort against tribulation). His last letter to his daughter Margaret (The works of Sir Thomas More)

John Morley of Blackburn: Eighteenth-century verse (Introduction to Wordsworth's poetical works)

William Morris: Kelmscott (News from nowhere). John Lothrop Motley: William of Orange (The rise of the Dutch Republic, Vol. III)

Sir William Napier: Albuera (History of the war in the Peninsula, Book XII). Salamanca (History of the war in the Peninsula, Book XVIII)

Nash, Thomas: A dedication (Christs teares over Jerusalem). A Roman vanqueting house (The unfortunate traveler)

Sir Henry Newbolt: Gardenleigh (The old country, I)

John Henry Newman, Cardinal: Athens, the eye of Greece (Historical sketches). The classics (Grammar of assent). Definition of a gentleman (Idea of a university, VIII). Leaving Oxford (Apologia pro vita sua)

Roger North: Judge Jeffries (Life of the Lord Keeper Guilford). Recreations of a college Don (Life of the Hon. And Rev. Dr. John North)

Thomas North: Coriolanus at the hearth of Aufidius (Plutarch's lives of the noble Grecians and Romans). Cleopatra comes to Antony

John Nyren: Tom Walker (The young cricketer's tutor)

Sir Thomas Overbury: A fair and happy milkmaid. A franklin

William Paley: Ingratitude for common benefits (Natural theology)

Francis Parkman: The heights of Abraham (Montcalm and Wolfe)

Walter Pater: Monna [sic] Lisa (The Renaissance, notes on Leonardo). The religion of Numa (Marius the epicurean). The poetry of Ronsar (Gaston de Latour). Montaigne (Gaston de Latour)

Coventry Patmore: Noble manners (Principle in art)

Mark Pattison: The instinct of pilgrimage (Essays, Gregory of Tours)

Thomas Love Peacock: The learned friend (Crotchet Castle). Picturesque gardening (Headlong Hall)

William Penn: The comfort of friends (Fruits of solitude)

Samuel Pepys: A jaunt into the country (Diary). Amatium irae (Diary)

Alexander Pope: On translating the classics (Preface to the Iliad). Ancient country seat (Letter from Stanton Harcourt to the Due of Buckingham). A tragic pastoral (Letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1 Sept. 1718). Frederick York Powell: Alfred (Life, letters and writings, Vol. II, part IV). Omar Khayyam (Life, letters and writings)

William H. Prescott: The first sight of Mexico (History of the conquest of Mexico)

Matthew Prior: The Vicar of Bray and Sir Thomas More (Dialogues of the Dead)

R., B: Cleobis and Bito (Translation of Herodotus)

Sir Walter Raleigh: The last fight of the Revenge (A report of the truth of the fight about the Isle of Azores). Death (A history of the world, Book V). Letter to his wife on the death of his son (Letter from St. Christophers, 22 March 1617)

Sir Walter Raleigh: The book of the courtier. Quae stulta sunt mundi elegit deus (Some authors, Don Quixote. Times Literary Supplement, 27 April 1916

Charles Reade: The gallows (The cloister and the hearth). The English skylark in Australia (It is never too late to mend)

Sir Joshua Reynolds: The contemplation of excellence (Sixth discourse)

Samuel Richardson: A filial victim (Clarissa Harlowe, letter XVI)

Frederick William Robertson: The crystal palace and sabbatarianism (Sermons, Series II)

William Robertson: The murder of Rizio (History of Scotland)

Ralph Robinson: Ralph Hythlodaye (Translation of More's Utopia)

William Roper: Sir Thomas More parts from his daughter Margaret (The mirror of virtue in worldly greatnes [sic]

Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Roseberry: The elder and the younger Pitt

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Dante's dream (Early Italian poets)

John Ruskin: A cathedral close (The stones of Venice, chap. IV). The two boyhoods, Giorgione, Turner (Modern painters, vol. V)

William Clark Russell: The last of the Grosvenor (The wreck of the Grosvenor)

Mark Rutherford: Injustice (Pages from a journal). A Londoner's holiday (Mark Rutherford's deliverance). George Saintsbury: The death of Molïre (Introduction to A. R. Waller's edition of the Plays of Molïre)

Lord George Sanger: A fair and a fire (Seventy years of a showman's life)

George Santayana: The weather in his soul (Soliloquies in England, 9, the British character). Religio stoici (Little essays)

Olive Schreiner: Waldo (The story of an African farm, Part II)

Michael Scott: A king's ship (Tom Cringle's leg)

Robert Falcon Scott and Charles Turley: The death of Captain Oates (Scott's last expedition). The end (Scott's last expedition)

Sir Walter Scott: The laird evicts the gipsies (Guy Mannering). The phoca (The antiquary). A lost cause (Redgauntlet). The trial of Evan Dhu (Waverly). The banner of England (The talisman)

John Selden: Pleasure (The table talk of John Selden). Of a king (The table talk)

Arthur Shadwell and R. H. Lyttelton: Septem contra camum, 1843 (The Oxford and Cambridge boat races). Cobden's over, 1870 (The badminton library, cricket)

Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury: Character of Henry Hastings (Shaftesbury papers)

William Shakespeare: Falstaff and the hostess. Justice Shallow on death. Before Agincourt. Hamlet

George Bernard Shaw: The artist-philosopher (Man and superman)

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poetry (A defence of poetry)

Joseph Henry Shorthouse (The pavilion in the wood (John Inglesant)

Algernon Sidney: The sanction of government

Sir Philip Sidney: Love in Arcady. With a tale he cometh (an apologie for poetrie). Chevy Chase

Adam Smith: The rewards of the professions (The wealth of nations, Book I)

Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp

Sir Harry Smith: The child of Badajoz (Autobiography)

Sydney Smith: Noodle's oration (Bentham on fallacies). Justice the root of patriotism (The judge that smites contrary to the law). Tobias Smollett: Trunnion's wedding (Peregrine pickle, Book I)

E. Somerville and Martin Ross: An outpost of Ireland (Some Irish yesterdays)

Robert South: Hypocrites (Sermon, on the mischievous influence of words names falsely applied)

Robert Southey: Nelson's departure from Portsmouth. The mourning for Nelson

James Spedding: Bacon and bribery (The life and letters of Francis Bacon)

Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester: The philosophy of the primitive church (The history of the Royal Society, Part I). The plague (History of the Royal Society)

Sir Richard Steele: His first grief (Tatler, No. 181). Mr. Bickerstaff visits a friend (Tatler, No. 95). A dream after reading in bed (Tatler, No. 8). A true magistrate (Tatler, No. 14). Satire (tattler, No. 242)

Laurence Sterne: Consolations of philosophy (Tristram Shandy). Trim's hat (Tristram Shandy). Death of Le Fever (Tristram Shandy). Nannette (Tristram Shandy). The monk (A sentimental journey, Calais)

Robert Louis Stevenson: The English admirals (Virginibus puerisque). Children (Virginibus puerisque). Night among the pines (Travels with a dinkey). A midnight flitting (The master of Ballantrae). Kirstie (Weir of Hermiston)

Edward Stillingfleet: London's judgement by fire (A sermon after the great fire of London)

Giles Lytton Strachey: The loss of the prince consort (Queen Victoria). The passing of Victoria

John Andrew Hamilton, Lord Sumner of Ibstone: Bowman v. Secular Society Ltd, Judgement

Robert Smith Surtees: Mr. Jorrocks arrives at Handley Cross. A morning find

Jonathan Swift: Stella goes riding. A standard English (Letter dedicatory to the Earl of Oxford). Gulliver captures the fleet of Blefuscu. The Academy of projectors (A Voyage to Laputa). A dedication to Prince Posterity (Tale of a tub)

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Philip the bastard (A study of Shakespeare, second period). Byron (Introduction to selection from works of Lord Byron)

John Millington Synge: Riders to the sea. Jane Taylor: A young lady's education (Contributions of Q. Q.)

Jeremy Taylor: Against bitterness of zeal. Vicisti, Galilae! (Sermon preached at the funeral of the Lord Primate). How amiable are thy tabernacles. Marriage (Sermons, the marriage ring). The husband

Sir William Temple: Of poetry. On his retirement from public life. On gardens

Anne Thackeray: The children's hour (Old Kensington)

William Makepeace Thackeray: Sir Pitt Crawley in town (Vanity Fair). Waterloo (Vanity Fair). Mother and daughter (The history of Henry Esmond, Book II). Pulvis et umbra (The history of Henry Esmond, Book III). The steps of a good man (The Newcomes). Chur in the Grisons (Roundabout papers, on a lazy idle boy)

Francis Thompson: Shelley

Henry David Thoreau: The lure of the river (A week on the Concord). The shipwreck (Cape Cod). Chanticleer. Autumn sunset

George Thornley: The grasshopper. The nightingales

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury: Of feasts

Thomas Traherne: The heir of all things. A child's vision of the world. Love a trinity

Hery Duff Traill: Plato and Landor in Elysium (The new Lucian)

George Macaulay Trevelyan: Garibaldi. Garibaldi in the Assembly

John Trevisa: This realm, this England (Translation of Higden's Polychronicon). The mettle of your pasture. The thirteenth-century maiden

Anthony Trollope: The Plumstead foxes (The last chronicle of Barset). Mr. Harding's funeral

William Tyndale: A vision of judgement

Sir Thomas Urquhart: Fay ce que voudras (Translation of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel). Gargantua to his son, at Paris University. Henry Vaughan: Finis rerum (The mount of olives, man in darkness)

Arthur Bingham Walkley: The national gallery (Still more prejudice)

Horace Walpole: Strawberry Hill. Funeral of George II

Izaak Walton: A milkmaid's song (The compleat angler). George Herbert's walks to Salisbury. Portrait of John Donne. The judicious Hooker makes an injudicious marriage (Life of Richard Hooker). Sir Henry Wotton

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington: Chaplains for the army (Dispatches, to Lieut.-General Calvert)

Herbert George Wells: The Potwell Inn

Charles Whibley: Rabelais (Literary portraits). George Brummel (Introduction to the pageantry of life)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Nature and art (The gentle art of making enemies)

Gilbert White: The red deer of Wolmer Forest (The natural history of Selborne). The bat (The natural history of Selborne). The Sussex Downs (The natural history of Selborne). Rooks (The natural history of Selborne)

James White: Davy to Justice Shallow (Falstaff letters)

Walt Whitman: Starlight, and Carlyle dying (Specimen days in America) Oscar Wilde: The critic as artist (Intentions)

John Wilson (Christopher North): Our country

Thomas Wilson: Inkhorn terms (the arte of rhetorique)

Sir Henry Wotton: To Mr. John Milton (Letter concerning Comus)

Dorothy Wordsworth: The beggars. Friday, 14th May 1802

William Wordsworth: Sinews of patriotism. The poet (Preface to Lyrical ballads)

John Wycliffe: The prodigal son (Sermons, no. 159)