BOOKS BY SIDNEY LANIER. The English Novel. A Study in the Development of Personality. Cr. 8vo. $2.00. The Science of English Verse. Cr. 8vo. $2.00. Poems. Edited by his Wife, with a Memorial by William Hayes Ward. With portrait. 12mo. $2.00. Select Poems of Sidney Lanier. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Prof. Morgan Callaway, Jr. 12mo, net, $1.00. THE ENGLISH NOVEL A STUDY IN The Development of Personality BY SIDNEY LANIER LECTURER IN JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY REVISED EDITION NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Prefatory Note THE Johns Hopkins lectures delivered in Hopkins Hall during the winter of 1881, and published in 1883 under title of The English Novel, were Mr. Lanier's latest literary work excepting his Introduction to The Boy's Mabinogion, which was dictated at intervals in May and June, 1881, in the Carolina mountains. Their original plan called for twenty lectures; but Mr. Lanier was at the last persuaded to reduce the number to twelve, as President Gilman, with solicitude aroused by the writer's rapid decline, made use of the suggestion that a shorter course would better fit in with the whole schedule of University lectures. To effect this change the entire omission of many subjects and briefer treatment of others became necessary, while George Eliot's death occurring in the middle of the course further modified the plan by urging Mr. Lanier to concentrate upon her work the remaining six lectures. His own name for the course was "From Eschylus to George Eliot, The Development of Personality," and this better conveys the author's purpose than the compacter book-title, since the novel was preferred for study above other literary forms merely as the fullest exponent of man's |