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Literary Taste: How to Form It - With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett
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William Godwin, *Caleb Williams:* Newnes's Edition 0 1 0
Maria Edgeworth, *Helen:* Macmillan's Illustrated Edition 0 2 6
JANE AUSTEN, *Novels:* Nelson's New Century Library (2 vols.) 0 4
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James Morier, *Hadji Baba:* Macmillan's Illustrated Novels 0 2 6
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The principal omissions here are Jeremy Collier, whose outcry against
the immorality of the stage is his slender title to remembrance;
Richard Bentley, whose scholarship principally died with him,
and whose chief works are no longer current; and "Junius,"
who would have been deservedly forgotten long ago had there been
a contemporaneous Sherlock Holmes to ferret out his identity.


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Thomas Otway, *Venice Preserved:* Temple Dramatists 0 1 0
Matthew Prior, *Poems on Several Occasions:*
Cambridge English Classics 0 4 6
John Gay, *Poems:* Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
ALEXANDER POPE, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
Isaac Watts, *Hymns:* Any hymn-book 0 1 0
James Thomson, *The Seasons:* Muses' Library 0 1 0
Charles Wesley, *Hymns:* Any hymn-book 0 1 0
THOMAS GRAY, Samuel Johnson, William Collins, *Poems:*
Muses' Library 0 1 0
James Macpherson (Ossian), *Poems:* Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
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