... of the prose works of Swift. So far as one may judge from a first instalment, the present edition seems to fulfil the requirements of popularity and accuracy as well as could be desired. . . The edition promises to be one of the most valuable and welcome items in those classic Libraries' which have done so much to bring good literature, in worthy form, within the reach of the British public."-Glasgow Herald. "We are indebted to the proprietors of the Bohn Libraries for various literary enterprises, but it is questionable indeed if they have issued lately a work more acceptable, or likely to become more popular, than 'The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift.' No better edition of it could be desired. Mr. Temple Scott is editing the volumes with the greatest care.”—Belfast News Letter. "No more welcome reprint has appeared for some time past than the new edition, complete and exact so far as it was possible to make it, of Swift's 'Journal to Stella.""-Morning Post. "By far the most satisfactory text yet printed of the wonderful 'Journal to Stella.'--Newcastle Daily Chronicle. "The 'Journal to Stella' has long stood in need of editing, far more than any other of Swift's works. It abounds in references to persons great and small, to political and social occurrents,' to ephemeral publications; and to identify and explain all these demands an editor steeped in the history, literature, broadsides and press news of the time of the Harley administration. Mr. Ryland's present edition will satisfy all but the few who dream of an ideal."-Athenæum. "The immortal Journal to Stella,' one of the works most indispensable to a knowledge of the life and literature of the early part of the eighteenth century. We know of no shape in which the Journal is published so convenient for perusal as this. The notes are short and serviceable, and there is a full index."-Notes and Queries. "At last we have a well-printed, carefully edited text of Swift's famous Journal in a single, handy, and cheap volume. The present edition will, we hope, encourage many timid souls, who have been awed by the formidable array of Scott, Sheridan, or Hawkesworth's editions, to make the acquaintance of the most interesting, charming, and tender journal that ever man kept for a woman's eye."-St. James's Gazette. "Mr. Dennis is quite justified in his boast of now first giving us a complete and trustworthy text [of 'Gulliver's Travels ']."-Manchester Guardian. "The number of useless reprints of Gulliver, based on Hawkesworth's untrustworthy edition, and mostly expurgated besides, is so great that we owe double thanks to Mr. Dennis, since he has not shirked the trouble of collating the five earliest editions, and has given us again at last-as far as is possible in the present case-the complete and authentic text of the original."-PROF. MAX FÖRSTER in Anglia. "An ideal text of 'Gulliver's Travels.'"-Literary World. "The best and most scholarly edition of 'Gulliver's Travels.'”—University Correspondent. LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS. |