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deer, 180; crocodile, 176. Teeth, superstitions relating to, 332, 333. Telme’s (St.) fire, meteor so called, 83. Ten bones, name for fingers, 491. Ten commandments, 491. Tennis, 419. Termagant, tyrant of miracle-plays, 313. Tewksbury mustard, 232. Theatrical lore, 546. Thorns, legend relating to, 244. Threshold, bride must not cross, 358. Thumb, biting of, an insult, 492; rings, 389. Thunder, notions relating to, 91; bolt, 91; stone, 91. Tick-tack, old game, 421. Tiger, roars in stormy weather, 199. Tire, term in falconry, 127. Titania, fairy queen, 2, 3, 14. Tilly-vally, exclamation, 531. Toad, evil spirit likened to, 262; changes eyes with lark, 134; said to be venomous, 261; stone, 260. Tokens plague-spots, 285. Tomb, ornamenting, 377. Tongue, blister on, 266. Toothache, 507; caused by a worm, 290. Torches at weddings, 357. Toss in a sieve, punishment so called, 441. Touching for king’s evil, 279. Tournaments, 547. Tower, term in falconry, 123. Transmigration of souls, 50. Tread a measure, dance, 431. Trefoil, divination by, 318. Trial by the stool, for detecting witches, 31. Trip and go, a morris-dance, 431. Troll-my-dame, or Troll-madam, game so called, 422. Truepenny, mining term, 542. Trump, old game, 422. Trumpet, for announcing visitors, 547. Tub-fast, 292. Turkey, 158. Turquoise, supposed virtues of, 393. Tutelary guardians, 57. Twelfth Day, 297. Tybert or Tybalt, cat so called, 172.   Unicorn, mode of betraying, 199. Up-spring, German dance, 431, 432. Urchin, name for fairy, 9, 17. Urchins’ dance, 9.   Valentine’s (St.) Day, 298; birds choose their mates on, 298; selecting valentines on, 298; customs in France on, 298. Vervain, divination by, 318. Vice, character in old miracle-plays, 314. Violet, associated with early death, 244; superstition relating to, 244. Virus lunare, 75. Vitalis (St.) invoked in case of nightmare, 283. Vulture, 158.   Wagtail, used in opprobrious sense, 158. Wakes, 331. Walking fire, name for ignis fatuus, 86. Wandering, knight, name of sun, 63; stars, 78, 79. War-cry, 547. Warden, name of pear, 235. Wasp, 262. Wassail, bowl, 205; candle, 330. Wat, name for hare, 188. Water, casting, 293; galls, name for rainbow, 91. Waxen images, used by witches, 37. Weasel, considered ominous, 200; kept in houses, 200; said to be quarrelsome, 200. Weathercocks, 108. Web-and-pin, name for cataract, 269. Wedding-torch, 357. Were-wolf, mark of, 31. Westward, ho, exclamation, 531. Whale, 504. Wheel, punishment of, 441. Whipping, 442. Whistling of swan, 157. White dog-rose, 240. Whitsun, ale, 312; mysteries, 311. Whitsuntide, 310. Wild-goose chase, 118. Will-o’-the-wisp, 8, 85. Will-with-a-wisp, 87. Willow, symbol of sadness, 245; garlands made of, 245. Winchester, college, custom at, 387; goose, 119. Wind, weather-lore of, 94; sale of, 34. Winding-sheet, 380, 516. Wisp, punishment for a scold, 442. Witches, in “Macbeth,” 27; create storms, 32; drawing blood from, 32; propitiation of, 32; powers limited, 31; harass horses, 190; offspring of, 40; say their prayers backwards, 40; sell or give winds, 34; ointment, 36; intercourse between, and demons, 40; protection from, 32; vanish at will, 35; destroy cattle, 39; look into futurity, 36; beard, characteristic of, 29; trials, 36. Witch of Brentford, 27. Wits, the five, 496. Woodcock, applied to a foolish person, 159. Worm, a poor creature, 256; name for serpent, 254; toothache, said to be caused by, 290. Wormwood used in weaning, 246. Wren, its diminutiveness, 160. Wrestling, 422.   Yew, planted in churchyards, 247; stuck in shroud, 274, 380; poisonous qualities, 248.

THE END.

ENGLISH CLASSICS.

EDITED BY

WM. J. ROLFE, A.M.

Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, 56 cents per vol.; Paper, 40 cents per vol.

This work has been done so well that it could hardly have been done better. It shows throughout knowledge, taste, discriminating judgment, and, what is rarer and of yet higher value, a sympathetic appreciation of the poet’s moods and purposes. * * * The peculiarities of Shakespeare’s style are pointed out and elucidated; his allusions are explained; his singular use of words, and moods and tenses and cases, is remarked upon; and the archaic and transitional phraseology which is found in many passages of his plays are made the occasion of instructive but unpedantic comment.—N. Y. Times.

SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS.
OTHELLO. JULIUS CÆSAR. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM. MACBETH. HAMLET. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. ROMEO AND JULIET. AS YOU LIKE IT. THE TEMPEST. TWELFTH NIGHT. THE WINTER’S TALE. KING JOHN. RICHARD II. HENRY IV. Part I. HENRY IV. Part II. HENRY V. RICHARD III. HENRY VIII.
KING LEAR. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. CORIOLANUS. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. CYMBELINE. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. TIMON OF ATHENS. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. HENRY VI. Part I. HENRY VI. Part II. HENRY VI. Part III. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE. THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. POEMS. SONNETS. TITUS ANDRONICUS.
GOLDSMITH’S SELECT POEMS. GRAY’S SELECT POEMS. ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS.

EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

12mo, Cloth, 75 cents per volume.

SAMUEL JOHNSON By Leslie Stephen. EDWARD GIBBON By J. C. Morison. SIR WALTER SCOTT By R. H. Hutton. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY By J. A. Symonds. DAVID HUME By T. H. Huxley. OLIVER GOLDSMITH By William Black. DANIEL DEFOE By William Minto. ROBERT BURNS By J. C. Shairp. EDMUND SPENSER By R. W. Church. WILLIAM M. THACKERAY By Anthony Trollope. EDMUND BURKE By John Morley. JOHN MILTON By Mark Pattison. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE By Henry James, Jr. ROBERT SOUTHEY By E. Dowden. GEOFFREY CHAUCER By A. W. Ward. JOHN BUNYAN By J. A. Froude. WILLIAM COWPER By Goldwin Smith. ALEXANDER POPE By Leslie Stephen. LORD BYRON By John Nichol. JOHN LOCKE By Thomas Fowler. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH By F. W. H. Myers. JOHN DRYDEN By G. Saintsbury. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR By Sidney Colvin. THOMAS DE QUINCEY By David Masson. CHARLES LAMB By Alfred Ainger. RICHARD BENTLEY By R. C. Jebb. CHARLES DICKENS By A. W. Ward. THOMAS GRAY By E. W. Gosse. JONATHAN SWIFT By Leslie Stephen. LAURENCE STERNE By H. D. Traill. THOMAS B. MACAULAY By J. Cotter Morison. HENRY FIELDING By Austin Dobson. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN By Mrs. Oliphant.

Others to follow.

BOOKS FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

DOWDEN’S SHAKSPERE. Shakspere. A Critical Study of his Mind and Art. By Edward Dowden. 12mo, Cloth, $1.75.

GUIZOT’S SHAKSPEARE. Shakspeare and his Times. By M. Guizot. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.

PERRY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century. By Thomas Sergeant Perry. 12mo, Cloth, $2.00.

SWINTON’S STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time; together with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary, as an aid to Systematic Literary Study. By William Swinton. With Portraits. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $1.50.

BAYNE’S LESSONS FROM MY MASTERS: Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin. By Peter Bayne, M.A., LL.D. 12mo, Cloth, $1.75.

DESHLER’S AFTERNOONS WITH THE POETS. Afternoons with the Poets. By C. D. Deshler. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.75.

HOWITT’S HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE BRITISH POETS. By William Howitt. Illustrated. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3.50.

D’ISRAELI’S AMENITIES OF LITERATURE. Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature. By J. D’Israeli, D.C.L., F.S.A. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $2.50.

TENNYSON’S POETICAL WORKS. Complete Edition, with The Idyls of the King arranged in order. With numerous Illustrations and Three Characteristic Portraits. 8vo, Paper, $1,00; Cloth, $1.50.

PRIMERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE: The Romance Period.—The Classical Period.—Modern Period. By Eugene Lawrence. 3 vols., 32mo, Paper, 25 cents each; Cloth, 40 cents each.

MISS MITFORD’S RECOLLECTIONS. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places, and People. By Mary Russell Mitford. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.

THE FRIENDSHIPS OF MISS MITFORD, as Recorded in Letters from her Literary Correspondents. Edited by the Rev. A. G. L’Estrange. 12mo, Cloth, $2.00; 4to, Paper, 25 cents.

LAMBS’ TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. In 2 vols. Vol. I. Comedies. Vol. II. Tragedies. By Charles and Mary Lamb. 32mo, Paper, 25 cents each; Cloth, 40 cents each.

MACAULAY’S LIFE AND LETTERS. By his Nephew, George Otto Trevelyan, M.P. With Portrait on Steel. Complete in 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth. Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $5.00; Sheep, $6.00; Half Calf, $9.50. Popular Edition, 1 vol., 12mo, Cloth, $1.75.

FROUDE’S CARLYLE. Thomas Carlyle. A History of the First Forty Years of his Life (1795-1835). By James Anthony Froude, M.A. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2 volumes in one, 12mo, Cloth, $1.00. Also, in 2 vols., 4to, Paper, 15 cents per volume.

Harper’s Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry.

Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry. Edited by Epes Sargent. Large 8vo, nearly 1000 pages; Containing nearly 2000 Selections from over 750 Authors; Arranged Chronologically: with a Biographical Sketch, and a Critical Estimate of each Author. Illuminated Cloth, with Colored Edges, $4.50; Half Leather, $5.00.

Mr. Sargent has shown the knowledge and the skill that might have been expected from so well-read and so accomplished a writer; he has shown a catholicity as well as a sureness of taste; he has proceeded on what seems to me the true principle of arrangement, that of chronology; he has made his selections as full as he could consistently with the multitude to be selected from, neither rejecting old ones because they were old, nor accepting new ones because they were new, but earnestly aiming in both cases to represent the great body of British and American poets at their best, and their best only; and he has felt the natural demand of its readers for information concerning it and its authors—an imperative demand which he has fulfilled with a thoroughness that is honorable to his scholarship, and with a modesty that is honorable to his genius. That such a work as this might have been done differently I can see; that it could have been done better I do not see at all.—R. H. Stoddard, in The Critic, N. Y.

The special value of this collection is in the fact that it expresses the taste and feeling of one of the most cultured men of this generation, who, with a poet’s sensibility, spent his whole life in the companionship and atmosphere of books

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