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1913
Northern Studies. 1879.
Life of Gray. 1882.
Seventeenth-Century Studies. 1883.
Life of Congreve. 1888.
A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature. 1889
Life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. 1890.
The Secret of Narcisse: a Romance. 1892.
Questions at Issue. 1893.
Critical Kit-Kats. 1896.
A Short History of Modern English Literature. 1897.
Life and Letters of John Donne. 1899.
Hypolympia. 1901.
French Profiles. 1904.
Life of Jeremy Taylor. 1904.
Life of Sir Thomas Browne. 1905.
Father and Son. 1907.
Life of Ibsen. 1908.
Two Visits to Denmark. 1911.
Collected Poems. 1911.
Portraits and Sketches. 1912.
O blessed Letters, that combine in one
All ages past, and make one live with all:
By you we doe conferre with who are gone,
And the dead-living unto councell call:
By you th' unborne shall have communion
Of what we feele, and what doth us befall.
SAM. DANIEL Musophilus. 1602.
It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense,is quite a modern institution. Three hundred years ago there were nopublic libraries in Europe. The Ambrosian, at Milan, dates from 1608;the Bodleian, at Oxford, from 1612. To these Angelo Rocca added his inRome, in 1620. But private collections of books always existed, andthese were the haunts of learning, the little glimmering hearths overwhich knowledge spread her cold fingers, in the darkest ages of theworld. To-day, although national and private munificence has increasedthe number of public libraries so widely that almost every rea