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VI.

+Novels of Social Life, etc.+

RICHARDSON’S _Novels_.

FIELDING’S _Tom Jones_.

SMOLLETT’S Novels.

STERNE’S _Tristram Shandy_.

GOLDSMITH’S _Vicar of Wakefield_.

MISS BURNEY’S Novels.

GODWIN’S _Caleb Williams_.

MISS EDGEWORTH’S Novels.

SCOTT’S _Guy Mannering_; _The Heart of Mid-Lothian_; _The Bride of Lammermoor_; _The Antiquary_; etc.

MISS AUSTEN’S Works.

THACKERAY’S _Vanity Fair_.

DICKENS’S _Pickwick Papers_.

Other Novels of Dickens and Thackeray.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S _Jane Eyre_.

BULWER’S Novels.

DISRAELI’S _Vivian_; and _Lothair_.

CHARLES KINGSLEY’S Novels.

GEORGE ELIOT’S Works.

See Stephen’s _Hours in a Library_; Hazlitt’s _English Novelists_; Thackeray’s _English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century_; Irving’s _Life of Goldsmith_; Macaulay’s Essay on _Madame d’Arblay_; Miss Kavanagh’s _English Women of Letters_; James T. Fields’ _Yesterdays with Authors_; Horne’s _New Spirit of the Age_; John Forster’s _Life of Charles Dickens_; Hannay’s _Studies on Thackeray_; Hannay’s _Characters and Sketches_; Anthony Trollope’s _Thackeray_, in “English Men of Letters;” Taine’s _English Literature_, vol. iv.; Mrs. Gaskell’s _Life of Charlotte Brontë_; Miss Martineau’s _Biographical Sketches_; Thackeray’s _Roundabout Papers_; Life of _Charles Brockden Brown_, in Sparks’ “American Biography;” Griswold’s _Prose_

_American Fiction_—

CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN’S _Wieland_, and other Novels.

COOPER’S Novels.

JAMES KIRKE PAULDING.

JOHN P. KENNEDY.

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS.

HAWTHORNE’S Works.

The later and living novelists.

_Writers of America_; Prescott’s _Miscellaneous Essays_; J. T. Fields’ _Hawthorne_; H. A. Page’s _Life of Hawthorne_; Lathrop’s _Study of Hawthorne_; Roscoe’s _Essays_; _Hawthorne_, by Henry James, in “English Men of Letters;” Cooke’s _George Eliot: a Critical Study of her Life, Writings, and Philosophy_; (Round-Table Series) _George Eliot, Moralist and Thinker_.