Excerpt from Goldsmith's Traveller: Gray's Elegy; And Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France: With Introduction, Lives of Authors, Character of Their Works Etc;; And Copious Explanatory Notes, Grammatical, Historical, Biographical, EtcOf the many excellent annotated editions of English clas sics prepared by English or American authors, few, if any of them, fully answer our purposes. In the present work, my desire has been to provide a book which might possess the valuable features of many others. Anyone who has edited such standard works as those included in this volume, will readily acknowledge how impossible it is to give much that is really necessary and yet original. Our best editions of Shakespeare's plays are largely compilations. It is difficult to say much which is valuable for school use, regarding the works of Gray, Goldsmith, and Burke that has not been said already many times over, and also well said.Thanking my fellow-teachers for the very attering recep tion accorded to my previous books, this one is submitted with the hope that it may meet with similar favor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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