The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I, by Francis W. Halsey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Author: Francis W. Halsey Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge Release Date: June 4, 2007 [EBook #21679] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS *** Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Milton, Bacon, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. THE BEST of the WORLD'S CLASSICS RESTRICTED TO PROSE HENRY CABOT LODGE Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS W. HALSEY Associate Editor With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. IN TEN VOLUMES Vol. III GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—I FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright, 1909, by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY The Best of the World's Classics VOL. III GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—I 1281-1745 CONTENTS Vol. III—Great Britain and Ireland—I Page Richard de Bury—(Born in 1281, died in 1345.) In Praise of Books.