Milton, Addison's Critique, and Notes. This went through several editions-the ninth in 1790-until Newton's 'Milton' was succeeded by Todd's.

In 1750 William LAUDER (1710-1771), afterwards discovered to be a literary impostor, wrote "An Essay on Milton's use and imitation of the Moderns in Paradise Lost." With a Preface by Dr. Johnson. This was answered by the Rev. John DOUGLAS, D.D., Oxford (1721-1807), “Milton vindicated from the charge of Plagiarism," 1751; and "Milton no Plagiary; or a detection of the forgeries in Lauder's Essay." In reply there appeared in Lauder's name, but in reality written by Dr. JOHNSON, "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Douglas, occasioned by his vindication of Milton."

In 1750-1753: Paradise Lost, translated into Latin by W. DOBSON, Fellow of New College, Oxford. Published by subscription, in two vols., quarto.

In 1752 NEWTON edited Paradise Regained, and the Minor Poems of Milton, with Notes, in two volumes, and this edition was frequently reprinted. In 1773: James BUCHANAN.- "The First Six Books of Paradise Lost, rendered into Grammatical Construction, with Notes, etc." I have a copy of this rare work.

In 1779: Dr. JOHNSON'S Life of Milton appeared prefixed to Milton's Poems in the Works of the English Poets.

In 1785: Thomas WARTON (1728-1790), Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, edited the Poems upon Several Occasions (the early Poems), "with Notes, critical and explanatory, and other illustrations."

In 1795: Charles DUNSTER (1750-1816), M.A., Oxford, edited Paradise Regained, and prefixed Arguments to the Books.

In 1801 Henry John TODD (1763-1845), M.A.,

Oxford, Rector of Allhallows (the parish where Milton was born and spent his boyhood), edited the Poetical Works, with a Life of Milton and Notes, in six volumes. This was a standard work and went through several editions. In the edition of 1809 a verbal index was added.

In 1832: John MITFORD (1781-1859) M.A., Oxford, edited the Poetical Works, with a Life and Notes. The 'Aldine' Edition, First Series.

In 1835: Sir EGERTON BRYDGES (1763-1837), Cambridge, edited the Poetical Works, with a Life, Introductions, and Notes, in six volumes. It was republished in 1862 in one volume.

In 1840: James PRENDEVILLE, B.A., Dublin, edited Paradise Lost, with a Life and Notes.

In 1859: Thomas KEIGHTLEY (1789-1872), B.A., Dublin (who in 1855 published "An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of Milton "), edited the Poems, with Notes, in two volumes. The text is carefully edited, particular attention having been paid to the orthography and punctuation, and the Notes are judicious and mostly original.

In 1857: Guy Lushington PRENDERGAST, Madras Civil Service, published, at Madras, a Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton. A remarkable work, considering that the copyists and printers were Hindoos. A new Concordance is in preparation by the present editor.

In 1867: C. D. CLEVELAND (1802-1869), of Philadelphia, edited A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Milton (London). This, however, though so named, is only a verbal index.

In 1859 appeared the first volume of the Life of John Milton, narratedi n connection with the Politi

cal, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time, by David MASSON, M.A., Aberdeen (Macmillan and Co.). The Life was completed in six volumes; vol. ii. was published in 1871, vol. iii. in 1873, vols. iv. and v. in 1877, and vol vi. in 1880. It is probably the greatest work that has ever been written on the life of one man, and is in itself a monument to Milton; it is a monumental and authoritative biography, without perpetual reference to which no satisfactory memoir of Milton can henceforth be composed.'

In 1870 in the Clarendon Press Series, Oxford, Milton's English Poems, edited by R. C. BROWNE. The Life and Introduction are valuable, but the text is inaccurate.

In 1874: C. S. JERRAM, M.A., Oxford, edited Lycidas and Epitaphium Damonis, with the Latin translation of Lycidas by HOGG (1694) and the English translation of the Epitaphium by SYMMONS.

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In 1874 David MASSON edited the Poetical Works, with Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English, in three volumes (Macmillan and Co.). This, known as the Cambridge Edition,' was re-edited in 1890, the text was rendered more accurate, the Poems chronologically arranged, and a Memoir prefixed. The Globe Milton' and 'Milton' in the "Golden Treasury" Series are by the same editor and publishers; the text of the 'Globe' contains many misprints.

In 1878: John BRADSHAW, M.A., Dublin, edited the Poetical Works in two volumes, with Notes Explanatory and Philological; and a second edition appeared in 1885 (W. H. Allen and Co.). Of this the late John Bright wrote to the editor, 'I have several editions, but none more valuable than yours.'

In 1879: Milton, by Stopford BROOKE, M.A., Dublin, in the "Classical Writers" Series (Macmillan and Co.).

In 1880: Milton, by Mark PATTISON (1813-1884), Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in the “English Men of Letters" Series (Macmillan and Co.).

In 1890: Life of Milton, by Richard GARNETT, LL.D., in the "Great Writers" Series (Walter Scott). To this is appended a Bibliography by J. P. Anderson, British Museum.

These three last-named are probably the best Lives of Milton that have appeared separately in recent times. To them may be added Essays, Memoirs and Criticisms by the following:

MACAULAY (Edinburgh Review, 1825); W. E. CHANNING (Christian Examiner, 1826; DE QUINCEY (Distinguished Men of Modern Times, 1838); H. STEBBING (1839); James MONTGOMERY (Memoir, etc., in Bohn's "Illustrated Library," 1843); LEIGH HUNT (Imagination and Fancy, 1844); W. HowITT (Homes and Haunts of the English Poets, 1847); GILFILLAN (Gallery of Literary Portraits, 1849); J. R. LOWELL (Among my Books, 1876); Matthew ARNOLD (Mixed Essays, 1879); Walter BAGEHOT (Literary Studies, 1879); John DENNIS (Heroes of Literature, 1883); George EDMUNDSON ("Milton. and Vondel. A Curiosity of Literature," 1885); Edward DOWDEN (Transcripts and Studies, 1888). Archdeacon FARRAR, "Three Portraits of Milton (in the English Illustrated Magazine, Nov. 1891).

And in recent foreign criticism: H. A. TAINE (Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise, 1863); Alfred STERN (Milton und seine Zeit, Leipsig, 1877); and Edmond SCHERER (Etudes sur la Littérature Contemporaire. Vol. vi., Paris, 1882).