The catalogue of necessary authors of this third and last period being so long, it is convenient to divide the prose writers into Imaginative and Non-imaginative.

In the latter half of the period the question of copyright affects our scheme to a certain extent, because it affects prices. Fortunately it is the fact that no single book of recognised first-rate general importance is conspicuously dear. Nevertheless, I have encountered difficulties in the second rank; I have dealt with them in a spirit of compromise. I think I may say that, though I should have included a few more authors had their books been obtainable at a reasonable price, I have omitted none that I consider indispensable to a thoroughly representative collection. No living author is included.

Where I do not specify the edition of a book the original copyright edition is meant.

PROSE WRITERS: IMAGINATIVE. s. d.

SIR WALTER SCOTT, _Waverley, Heart of Midlothian, Quentin Durward, Red-gauntlet, Ivanhoe_: Everyman's Library (5 vols.) 0 5 0

SIR WALTER SCOTT, _Marmion_, etc.: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

Charles Lamb, _Works in Prose and Verse_: Clarendon Press (2 vols.) 0 4 0

Charles Lamb, _Letters_: Newnes's Thin Paper Cla.s.sics 0 2 0

Walter Savage Landor, _Imaginary Conversations_: Scott Library 0 1 0

Walter Savage Landor, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0

Leigh Hunt, _Essays and Sketches_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

Thomas Love Peac.o.c.k, _Princ.i.p.al Novels_: New Universal Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Mary Russell Mitford, _Our Village_: Scott Library 0 1 0

Michael Scott, _Tom Cringle's Log_: Macmillan's Ill.u.s.trated Novels 0 2 6

Frederick Marryat, _Mr. Midshipman Easy_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

John Galt, _Annals of the Parish_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Susan Ferrier, _Marriage_: Routledge's edition 0 2 0

Douglas Jerrold, _Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

Lord Lytton, _Last Days of Pompeii_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

William Carleton, _Stories_: Scott Library 0 1 0

Charles James Lever, _Harry Lorrequer_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Harrison Ainsworth, _The Tower of London_: New Universal Library 0 1 0

George Henry Borrow, _Bible in Spain, Lavengro_: New Universal Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Lord Beaconsfield, _Sybil, Coningsby_: Lane's New Pocket Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

W.M. THACKERAY, _Vanity Fair, Esmond_: Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

W.M. THACKERAY, _Barry Lyndon_, and _Roundabout Papers_, etc.: Nelson's New Century Library 0 2 0

CHARLES d.i.c.kENS, _Works_: Everyman's Library (18 vols.) 0 18 0

Charles Reade, _The Cloister and the Hearth_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Anthony Trollope, _Barchester Towers, Framley Parsonage_: Lane's New Pocket Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0

Charles Kingsley, _Westward Ho!_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Henry Kingsley, _Ravenshoe_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Charlotte Bronte, _Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Professor, and Poems_: World's Cla.s.sics (4 vols.) 0 4 0

Emily Bronte, _Wuthering Heights_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

Elizabeth Gaskell, _Cranford_: World's Cla.s.sics 0 1 0

Elizabeth Gaskell, _Life of Charlotte Bronte_ 0 2 6

George Eliot, _Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss_: Everyman's Library (3 vols.) 0 3 0

G.J. Whyte-Melville, _The Gladiators_: New Universal Library 0 1 0

Alexander Smith, _Dreamthorpe_: New Universal Library 0 1 0

George Macdonald, _Malcolm_ 0 1 6

Walter Pater, _Imaginary Portraits_ 0 6 0

Wilkie Collins, _The Woman in White_ 0 1 0

R.D. Blackmore, _Lorna Doone_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Samuel Butler, _Erewhon_: Fifield's Edition 0 2 6

Laurence Oliphant, _Altiora Peto_ 0 3 6

Margaret Oliphant, _Salem Chapel_: Everyman's Library 0 1 0

Richard Jefferies, _Story of My Heart_ 0 2 0

Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_: Macmillan's Cheap Edition 0 1 0

John Henry Shorthouse, _John Inglesant_: Macmillan's Pocket Cla.s.sics 0 2 0

R.L. Stevenson, _Master of Ballantrae, Virginibus Puerisque_: Pocket Edition (2 vols.) 0 4 0

George Gissing, _The Odd Women_: Popular Edition (bound) 0 0 7 __________ 5 0 1