FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON. THOR OF "A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE and BRITISH AND AMERICAN authors.' J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. STILL IN THE FULL POSSESSION OF HIS VIGOROUS AND WELL-CULTIVATED INTELLECT, IN HIS NINETY-FOURTH YEAR, I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME, IN LASTING REMEMBRANCE OF THE INTEREST WHICH HE HAS LONG TAKEN IN THE LITERARY LABORS OF HIS FRIEND, S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1873. * By the verdict of Hon. CHARLES SUMNER, LL.D., of the Boston Bar, and Hon. WILLIAM M. EVARTS, LL.D., of the New York Bar, verbally expressed to the writer. |