CONTENTS Public Opinion - Orthography and Orthoepy - The Ancient Metres in Modern Verse - Origin of Rhyme - Rhyming Dictionaries - The Arte Of English Poesie - The Discoverie of Witchcraft - The First Jesuits in England - Hooker - Sir Philip Sydney - Spenser - The Faery Queen - Allegory - The First Tragedy and the First Comedy - The Predecessors and Contemporaries of Shakespeare - Shakespeare - The "Humours" of Jonson - Drayton - The Psychological History of Rawleigh - The Occult Philosopher, Dr. Dee - The Rosacrucian Fludd - Bacon - The First Founder of a Public Library - Early Writers, Their Dread of the Press; The Transition to the Authors by Profession - The Age of Doctrines - Pamphlets - The "Oceana" of Harrington - The Author of "The Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy" - Commonwealth - The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Difficulties of the Publishers of Contemporary Memoirs - The War Against Books