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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

HOLT & WILLI1,VIS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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.

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