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OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

BY

H. A. TAINE

TRANSLATED BY

H. VAN LAUN

ONE OF THE MASTERS AT THE EDINBURGH ACADEMY

With a Preface Prepared Expressly for this Translation by the Author

TWO VOLUMES IN ONE

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1885

TROW'S

PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY

NEW YORK.

Listed Hudson

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

THE translator has collated almost every passage mentioned by M. Taine, verified every quotation, and spared no pains to render this history of English literature worthy of its author and of its subject. A copious Index will be found at the end of the Second Volume.

H. VAN LAUN.

October, 1871.

THE ACADEMY, EDINBURGH.

Mr. van Laun is not responsible for the English rendering of the Author's

introduction.

AMERICAN PUBLISHERS.

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