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In this New English Literature the author endeavors to preserve the qualities that have caused his former History of English Literature to be so widely used; namely, suggestiveness, clearness, organic unity, interest, and the power to awaken throught and to stimulate the student to further reading. The book furnishes a concise account of the history and growth of English literature from the earliest times to the present days. It lays special emphasis on literary movements, on the essential qualities that differentiate one period from another, and on the spirit that animates each age. Above all, the constant purpose has been to arouse in the student an enthusiastic desir5e to read the works of the authors discussed