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...Copeland will give a series of four lectures and two readings for the benefit of the union, next month. These lectures will be on English novels, the subjects being Fielding, Thackeray and two others, probably Smollett and Dickens. The lectures will be held Wednesdays at four o'clock in Sever 11, beginning November 15. Tickets for the course may be secured at the Prospect Union, at Amee's, and at the Old Corner Book Store in Boston. The price of course tickets is $2.50; single tickets 50 cents...
...three thousand or more books are numbered the volumes of the "Early English Text Society," the "Chaucer Society," the "Parker Society," the "Percy Society," and the "Shakespeare Society." There are also complete sets of Wycliff's "Latin Works," of Shakespeare, Bulwer, Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Dickens, Thackeray, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and Stevenson. These are supplemented by many books on general literature and by the books required for reading in the courses on the several periods of English literature. With the exception of the Classical Library this collection is the only one with a special fund...
...Copeland will endeavor to show certain general resemblances between Fielding and Thackeray, and the sharp difference between Thackeray (on the one hand) and Smollett and Dickens (on the other), in their methods of drawing character...
...reading will be from "Vanity Fair," and Thackeray's lecture on Fielding...
Lecture. English Novelists. VI. Thackeray (2). Mr. Copeland. Sever...