The Cambridge History of English Literature

Abstract

THIS the concluding volume of the great history of English literature produced by the Cambridge University Press, on the “collective responsibility” of the Master of Peterhouse and Mr. A. R. Waller, of the same college, contains a chapter of nearly fifty pages devoted to the literature of science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For this chapter, science is scheduled in three bibliographies grouped under physics and mathematics, chemistry, and biology respectively. The chapter is accordingly given in sections with those headings. Mr. Rouse Ball contributes the section on physics and mathematics, Mr. Pattison Muir that on chemistry, and Dr. Shipley, Master of Christ's, that on biology.

The Cambridge History of English Literature.

Edited by Sir A. W. Ward A. R. Waller. Vol. xiv., The Nineteenth Century. Pp. xii + 658. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916.) Price 9s. net.