APPENDIXDictionary of National Biography, 63 vols. (Macmillan), is
the standard.
English Men of Letters Series (Macmillan).
Great Writers Series (Scribner).
Beacon Biographies (Houghton, Mifflin).
Westminster Biographies (Small, Maynard).
Hinchman and Gummere’s Lives of Great English Writ-
ers (Houghton, Mifflin) is a good single volume, containing
thirty-eight biographies.
SELECTIONS
Manly’s English Poetry and Manly’s English Prose (Ginn
and Company) are the best single-volume collections, cover-
ing the whole field of Englishliterature.
Pancoast’s Standard English Poetry, and Pancoast’s Stan-
dard English Prose(Holt).
Oxford Book of English Verse, and Oxford Treasury of En-
glish Literature, 3vols. (Clarendon Press).
Page’s British Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Sanborn).
Stedman’s Victorian Anthology (Houghton, Mifflin).
Ward’s English Poets, 4 vols.; Craik’s English Prose Selec-
tions, 5 vols.; Chambers’s Encyclopedia of English Literature,
etc.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Classic Myths in English Literature (Ginn and Com-
pany).
Adams’s Dictionary of English Literature.
Ryland’s Chronological Outlines of English Literature.