THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 135221B R ASTOR, LENOX AND TELLEN FOUNMORLEYS UNIVERSAL LIBRARY. 1. Sheridan's Plays. 2. Plays from Molière. By English Dramatists. 3. Marlowe's Faustus and Goethe's Faust. 4. Chronicle of the Cid. 5. Rabelais' Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel. 6. Machiavelli's Prince. 7. Bacon's Essays. 8. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. 9. Locke on Civil Government and Filmer's "Patriarcha." 10. Butler's Analogy of Religion. II. Dryden's Virgil. 12. Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft. 13. Herrick's Hesperides. 14. Coleridge's Table-Talk. 15. Boccaccio's Decameron. 16. Sterne's Tristram Shandy. 17. Chapman's Homer's Iliad. 18. Medieval Tales. 19. Voltaire's Candide, and Johnson's Rasselas. 20. Jonson's Plays and Poems. 21. Hobbes's Leviathan. 22. Samuel Butler's Hudibras. 23. Ideal Commonwealths. 24. Cavendish's Life of Wolsey. 25 & 26. Don Quixote. 27. Burlesque Plays and Poems. 28. Dante's Divine Comedy. LONGFELLOW's Translation. 29. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems. 30. Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit. (Hitopadesa.) 31. Lamb's Essays of Elia. 32. The History of Thomas Ellwood. 33. Emerson's Essays, &c. 34. Southey's Life of Nelson. 35. De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium-Eater, &c. 36. Stories of Ireland. By Miss EDGEWORTH. 37. Frere's Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds 38. Burke's Speeches and Letters. 39. Thomas à Kempis. 40. Popular Songs of Ireland. 41. Potter's Eschylus. 42. Goethe's Faust: Part II. ANSTER'S Translation. 43. Famous Pamphlets. 44. Francklin's Sophocles. 45. M. G. Lewis's Tales of Terror and Wonder. 46. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. 47. Drayton's Barons' Wars, Nymphidia, &c. 48. Cobbett's Advice to Young Men. "Marvels of clear type and general neatness."-Daily Telegraph. INTRODUCTION. IZAAK WALTON was born at Stafford in the year 1593-when Shakespeare had newly begun to write. plays all his own—and he died in the year 1683, aged ninety-one. He began life soon after he came of age in one of the little seamster or draper's shops on the Exchange, seven and a half feet long by five feet wide, from which, in Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday," "sweet, beauteous Jane" tempted the enamoured Hamon, saying Sir, what is't you buy? What is it you lack, sir? Calico or lawn, Fine cambric shirts or bands? What will you buy? In 1624, at the age of thirty-one, Izaak Walton moved into Fleet Street, where his shop was on the north side, two doors west of the end of Chancery Lane. He moved afterwards to the seventh house round the corner on the west side of the Lane. He went to church at St. Paul's, where Donne (who died in 1631) had been made Dean in 1623, and |
