Belles Lettres_"

LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narrated in connexion with the Political,
Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By _David Masson_, M.A.,
LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric at Edinburgh. Vol. I. with Portraits. 8vo.
18_s_. Vol. II. in the Press.

_It is intended to exhibit Milton's life in its connexions with all the
more notable phenomena of the period of British history in which it was
cast--its state politics, its ecclesiastical variations, its literature
and speculative thought. Commencing in 1608, the Life of Milton proceeds
through the last sixteen years of the reign of James I., includes the
whole of the reign of Charles I. and the subsequent years of the
Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and then, passing the Restoration,
extends itself to 1674, or through fourteen years of the new state of
things under Charles II. The first volume deals with the life of Milton as
extending from 1608 to 1640, which was the period of his education and of
his minor poems._




Morison
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux. By _James Cotter
Morison_, M.A. New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 7_s_. 6_d_.

"_One of the best contributions in our literature towards a vivid,