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A History of Chinese LiteratureHerbert Allen Giles A History of Chinese Literature PREFACE This is the first attempt made in any language, including Chinese, to produce a history of Chinese literature.Native scholars, with their endless critiques and appreciations of individual works, do not seem...

Aspects and ImpressionsEdmund Gosse Aspects and Impressions GEORGE ELIOT IN and after 1876, when I was in the habit of walking from the north-west of London towards Whitehall, I met several times, driven slowly homewards, a victoria which contained a strange pair in whose appearance I took a viol...

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694)Lawrence Echard Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) INTRODUCTION Perhaps no higher praise can be paid a translator than posterity’s acceptance of his work. Laurence Echard’s Terence’s Comedies, first printed in 1...

The BalladistsJohn Geddie The Balladists PREFACE Not much more has been attempted in these pages than to extract the marrow of the Scottish Ballad Minstrelsy. They will have served their purpose if they help to awaken, or to renew, a relish for the contents of the Ballad Book. To know and love th...