Later he wrote novels dealing with various social problems, such as Tono-Bungay, a satire on successful quackery; and Marriage. Since the war began he has written two novels of the moment, Mr. Britling Sees It Through and The Soul of a Bishop, which picture the development of the British people in the stress of the conflict. The first of these war novels had a phenomenal success; Mr. Wells has also written essays of which the most important is perhaps God, the Invisible King, an extended effort to frame a religion for a thinking man of the twentieth century. WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN (1855 ), is a brilliant portrayer of facts and fancies from the land of romance and adventure. A Gentleman of France, Under the Red Robe, The House of the Wolf, are his best-known writings. ), is a novelist WOODS, MRS. MARGARET LOUISA (1856and dramatic poet. Her novels are Esther Vanhomrigh, Sons of the Sword. The Princess of Hanover is one of her poems. ), is the most notable YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865figure in the so-called "Celtic Renaissance," or Irish rebirth in literature. His most striking quality is shown in a realistic treatment of the world of unreality; and it is in this that he resembles somewhat the writers (mostly nameless) of Ireland's great age of about the seventh to the twelfth century. Of all literature his lyric and dramatic works the best known is probably The Land of Heart's Desire, an exquisite fairy play. ZANGWILL, ISRAEL (1864 ), is an outstanding figure among the writers dealing with the submerged peoples-especially the Hebrews. He was the first real interpreter of the London Ghetto, its sorrows and joys, and the point of view of its folk. Children of the Ghetto, They that Walk in Darkness, The War for the World, The Melting Pot, deal with these subjects. SELE IN Vi the foll had in many s any lib e.g., on 119, 120 1. G Camb Separat but of h GAR vols. its illus two em SAINT Probab suited f ΤΑΙΝ estimat RYLA millan.) years a Dicti and ot English of their GREE page 37 GARDINER, Student's History of England. (Longmans.) ANDREWS, History of England. (Allyn and Bacon.) two are among the best single-volume historical books. 2. Series. These last Handbooks of English Literature, ed. Hales. (Macmillan.) Each volume is complete in itself, and forms a good introduction to the SNELL, The Age of Alfred (664–1154); period with which it deals. SNELL, The Age of Transition (1400-1580), 2 vols.; SECCOMBE AND ALLEN, The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631), 2 vols.; MASTERMAN, The Age of Milton (1632-1660); GARNETT, The Age of Dryden (1660– 1700); DENNIS, The Age of Pope (1700-1744); SECCOMBE, The Age of Johnson (1748-1798); HERFORD, The Age of Wordsworth (1798– 1832); WALKER, The Age of Tennyson (1830–1870). Periods of European Literature, ed. Saintsbury. (Scribners.) KER, The Dark Ages; SAINTSBURY, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory; SNELL, The Fourteenth Century; SMITH, G. GREGORY, The Transition Period; SAINTSBURY, The Earlier Renaissance; HANNAY, The Later Renaissance; GRIERSON, The First Half of the Seventeenth Century; ELTON, The Augustan Ages; MILLAR, The Mid-Eighteenth Century; VAUGHAN, The Romantic Revolt; OMOND, The Romantic Triumph; SAINTSBURY, The Later Nineteenth Century. Types of Literature, ed. Neilson. (Houghton.) — THORNDIKE, Tragedy; CHANDLER, The Literature of Roguery; GEROULD, Saints' Lives; SCHELLING, The English Lyric; GUMMERE, The Popular Ballad. Short biographies by wellEnglish Men of Letters. (Macmillan.) known scholars and critics. Included are the following writers treated in this book: Addison, Arnold, Austen, Bacon, Browne, Browning, Bunyan, Burke, Burns, Byron, Carlyle, Chaucer, Coleridge, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Dickens, Dryden, George Eliot, Fielding, Fitzgerald, Goldsmith, Gray, Hazlitt, Johnson, Keats, Lamb, Landor, Macaulay, Milton, Moore, Morris, Pater, Pope, Richardson, Rossetti, Ruskin, Scott, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sheridan, Sidney, Southey, Spenser, Sterne, Swift, Taylor, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Wordsworth. Great Writers. (Walter Scott.) A series similar to the preceding with excellent bibliographies. Includes Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Browning, Bunyan, Burns, Byron, Carlyle, Coleridge, Darwin, Dickens, Scott, Sh the grea to the essays. CRAI the pre Amor use in s English turies of COAST, YOUNG, SNYDER All b which i English are to b tional I |