BIBLIOGRAPHY

FOR magazine articles on Bacon and his works the student should consult Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. For extended treatments in books not devoted solely to Bacon the American Library Association's An Index to General Literature (edited by William I. Fletcher, M.A.) will prove useful, referring to such works as Fuller's Worthies of England, Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy, Whipple's Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, and Lucas's Mornings of Recess. To these may be added Sidney Lee's Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century and John Caird's The Scientific Character of Bacon in his Glasgow University Addresses.

The following list is intended merely as a suitable working bibliography:

Spedding and Ellis: Letters and Life of Bacon. 7 vols. Longmans.

R. W. Church: Life of Bacon. (English Men of Letters.) Macmillan.

Basil Montagu: Life and Works of Bacon.

John Nichol: Bacon: His Life and Philosophy.

Lippincott.

Bacon's Works. Edited by Ellis and Spedding. 7 vols. Longmans.

Bacon's Essays. Edited by W. Aldis Wright, D.C.L. Macmillan.

Edited by Samuel H. Reynolds, M.A. Clarendon Press.

Edited by Edwin A. Abbott, D.D. Longmans. Edited by Richard Whately. Longmans. Edited by Melville B. Anderson. McClurg. Edited by F. G. Selby, M.A. Macmillan. Edited by H. Morley. Routledge. Macaulay's Essay on Bacon.

Harmony of the Essays. 1597-1626. Macmillan.

The most complete list of Bacon's works is that found in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books. In the volume published in 1884, columns 93–116 are devoted to Bacon; and in the Supplement of 1900, columns 69-73.

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY

(TO THE THIRD AND FINAL EDITION OF THE ESSAYS,

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE

AUTHOR, 1625.)

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MY VERY GOOD LORD THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM HIS GRACE, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND.

Excellent Lord,

Solomon says, "A good name is as a precious ointment; and I assure myself such will your Grace's name be with posterity. For your fortune and merit both have been eminent. And you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays; which, of all my other works, have been most current; for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight; so that they are indeed a new work. I thought it therefore agreeable to my affection and obligation to your Grace, to prefix your name before them, both in English and Latin. For I do conceive that the Latin volume of them (being in the universal language) may last as long as books last. My Instauration I dedicated to the King; my History of Henry the Seventh (which I have now also translated into Latin) and my portions of Natural History to the Prince; and these I dedicate to your Grace; being of the best fruits that by the good increase which God gives to my pen and labours I could yield. God lead your Grace by the hand.

Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant,

FR. ST. ALBAN.